This activity was by Oklahoma State University CC License (Seekers Unbound: Navigating Babel from Inquiry to Discovery © 2024 by Chris Rosser, Holly Reiter, Matt Upson, Frances Alvarado-Albertorio is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) It is being adapted for Ursinus College as part of the CC License. Thank you to OSU for sharing this game and allowing others to reuse/adapt it!

Welcome to Seekers Unbound: Navigating the Library of Babel!

The APEX realm invites you and your teams of Seekers to explore our Library of Babel. 

In the APEX realm, information is everywhere. With the right combination of words, everything you might want to know is instantly summoned from the Great Cloud. Or so it seems…

Unfortunately, our peaceful world is also rife with Dis….Dis exists in many forms and includes distrust, disharmony, disgust, disinformation, disorder, and the profound distance between us and others with whom we disagree.

Bias, Fallacy, Echo, Gut, and all the innumerable children of Dis make a mess of discovery. We need teams of Seekers like you who can navigate the disinfo nightmare in the Cloud and are ready to be trained in the Library of Babel.

The APEX realm invites you to enter the virtual, infinite spaces of our Library of Babel, a digital representation of the ancient, legendary Library lost to time, where Sages of old were said to summon needed information by whispering a simple incantation called a babel.

Imagine the quiet of library voices disturbed by a swoosh of frantic wings or a clamor of racing feet as information sped past countless shelves and endless passages to deliver itself to the ancient Seekers. Days of such information ease are now, of course, a distant memory, erased by time.

Today, because of Dis, we must use our critical thinking skills and our creativity to carefully craft our magical key words, those powerful search strategies that call forth needed information hidden within the Library’s labyrinthine halls. Crafting your key words and critically evaluating the info you find takes practice and training. That’s why the APEX realm wants you! Train with us and become a Seeker. With APEX, you’re sure to find all the high quality information you are searching for--and to avoid getting fooled by the children of Dis.

All images for our Seekers Unbound activity were created by ChatGPT-5. 

OpenAI. (2025). ChatGPT-5 (August 7, 2025 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat