Although I mocked the rings game (mockery including self mockery is encoded in my DNA) I really would be interested to find out what the hell it was all about.

Backtracking and reading the posts would take thousands of hours and cost many lives with no guarantee of success so that avenue is out. Perhaps a member of the winning team could briefly distill the objective, clues and solutions of the game.

If people had a basic familiarity with how the game worked, they might be more inclined to participate in future games. Hell, I still don't know if the rings were tangible or a metaphor.