Imagine being stranded in a new and unknown land—the land of Bluebook citations. Your only chance of survival requires you to study and learn new and foreign rules that often make no sense and are difficult to find. Students in Professor Stephanie Higgins’ Legal Research and Writing class lived this reality while participating in “Survivor Citations.”

Professor Higgins created a new and exciting way for her students to learn to correctly cite both under the Florida Rules and The Bluebook. Students were divided into tribes and had to compete against opposing tribes by answering citation questions. The first round of the game was governed by Florida Rules, and the second round was governed by The Bluebook. In both rounds, students were required to correctly answer true/false questions regarding citations, and provide correct citations when given case information.

The tribe known as “Apple Citers” (Alison Wender, Amanda Wolfe, Margaret Rowell, and LaQuisha Pierre-Louis) won the first round, and “One is the Loneliest Number” (Stephen Cox, Brian Curry, and Jessica Couvertier) won round two. A bonus round, consisting of the most difficult problems was won by the “Kate Monsters” (Liridona Sinani, Shawn Lee Taylor, Monica Haddad and Rebecca Walser). Congratulations to these students for surviving and mastering citations.