!! C a l v i n b a l l !!

[rcannon100]

Calvinball, the only true Freezing Saddles game, where the rules are constantly made up and the points don’t matter.

I am Tim the Enchanter, keeper of the score, final arbiter of the rules.

Your quest is to seek thee the gameball, hidden secretly amongst the cycling trails inside the beltway (but not to be found in any federal park).

Seek the game ball. Maketh up a new ordinance for the game. Hide the sacred ball. Post your new ordinance along with guidance on how those who follow can seek the gameball. Thou shall find, hide and post within the same hours 24.

For finding the gameball, ye shall be awarded 5 points, less a point for each day that passeth before the gameball is once again uncovered.

Ye may find the gameball but once during each orbit of the sun.* Ye may possess the gameball but once every other turn.

If your new ordinance nets three likes, ye shall likewise be award points equaling five and your ordinance shall be implemented as law of the game, which all who play must loyally adhere.

This be not organized competition. This be Calvinball. New rules are obliged to follow the spirit of Saint Calvin and Saint Hobbes. New ordinances shall not thee be bills of attainder but must generally apply to all fools of venture into our midst. New ordinances cannot benefit the ordinance’s scribe uniquely. New ordinances should make the court jester smile upon thee, and shall not place any in existential peril.

If a new ordinance shall contravene an old ordinance, the ordinance with highest net likes shall be declared the law.

Those who play shall seek their reward as follows:
• Rosalyn Award :: The player with the ordinance that has acquired the most net likes at the time of the next find
• Miss Wormwood Award :: The player with the most implemented ordinances
• Spaceman Spiff Award :: Best Calvinball
• Calvin Award :: Tim’s Award of Mystery (oooooooooohhh)
• Hobbes Award :: The Hobbes Prize is to be awarded to the person whom played but scored the least amount of points.
• Susie Award :: Most swag points
• Lost Dog Rescue Award :: Best picture of your dog

** Consider Thee Calvinball a Hot-potatoe game – not a hide-and-seek game. This be not geocaching. More, we wish the Calvinball attain perpetual motion, constantly moving, from pilgrim to pilgrim. (Translation: dont make your hides hard or your rules constraining. The more silliness the better)
** NOTE This is not a winner take all game. “The points dont matter“

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* The Sun orbits around the earth. Only heretics would suggest otherwise. We burn heretics. Well, only if they weigh the same as a duck.

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[TDean]

And I got the other one. Muhahahaha!!!![ATTACH=CONFIG]16308[/ATTACH]

[rcannon100]

Let’s conjure up some incomprehensible scoring, shall we?

Josh
There are five points eligible for the hide, minus one point for each day that passeth before the gameball is uncovered. So that’s four points.
I think based on the pictures that Josh included cool swag? (Do I spy bourbon?). 5 Points.
Josh included a doggo picture! 😮 10 Points.
Josh is awarded 19 points.

We have ourselves a bunny race going!

I am Tim. I spent the day watching Netflix. :p

[mrhappy_onabike]

@Steve O 172347 wrote:

Tarantino Calvinball acquired

Here’s where we found it: 4437 Reservoir Rd. NW
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And here’s the Calvinball with me hogging the whiskey. I have no idea what the strange velcro-y thingy attached to the silly stuffed mouse is.
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[fxbooks]

It’s what you use to attach the stuffed mouse to the back of your cat, of course. Picture on an earlier page of the thread.

[fxbooks]

Page 13, and possibly this direct link
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?12814-!!-C-a-l-v-i-n-b-a-l-l-!!&p=171332#post171332

[TDean]

Near Union Station
Clocks Ticking, they close at 5
Scrooge is his last name

[TDean]

I declare:

Any and all Calvinballs must return to the district every FIVE hides. Any and all Calvinball hiders hiding the Calvinball at it’s >= 5th consecutive time outside of the district will lose 1.5 trillion points.

[NemaVeze]

Retrieved Ebenezer’s Calvinball. (IIRC this coffeeshop is associated with an evangelical church, so Calvin is appropriate. Also, thanks for the automatic #fs2018coffeeride — and the coffee.)

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[NemaVeze]

@TDean 172404 wrote:

I declare:

Any and all Calvinballs must return to the district every FIVE hides. Any and all Calvinball hiders hiding the Calvinball at it’s >= 5th consecutive time outside of the district will lose 1.5 trillion points.

I agree that we need an ordinance to prevent the Calvinball from getting stuck in VA. Here’s my competing ordinance which will be associated with my next hide of the Calvinball currently in my possession:

Taking the Calvinball across state lines is worth 10 points. Going between MoCo — PG, Arlington — Alexandria, or from one quadrant of DC to another is worth 3 points.

[rcannon100]

SCORING

TDean
5 Points for the find
No pilgrim wanted 1.5 trillion points deducted from their score so TDean’s draft ordinance did not get three likes. Dilly Dilly
3 Enchanted points for the Hiaku
10 Points for pictures of puppies drinking bourbon
TDean is awarded 18 points

I am Tim. I am a Wizard. But no…… No….. I am not going to that meme. That stuff is just lame……

[Steve O]

@Steve O 172347 wrote:

Tarantino Calvinball acquired

Here is the new Nivlacball (to differentiate it from the other Calvinball).
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It is a puzzle box with two Washington Nationals branded Peet’s Coffee gift cards of unknown value inside.
Ordinance: If thou retrieveth this Nivlacball and are unable to solve it ere a reasonable period of time (2-3 hours), then thou may not replaceth it, but must passeth it along to the next player who is then also bound by this ordinance. This ordinance shall also apply at any time this or any other puzzle box is introduced or re-introduced into Calvinball. Failure to abideth by this ordinance shall result in one week of play during which thou may earn no points (thou may play, but shan’t get points). If thouest breaketh puzzle box in attempt to solve it, thou shalt be disqualified from the game.

Haiku
Early ass coffee
Every Thursday morning
Query barista

[NemaVeze]

@Steve O 172485 wrote:

Haiku
Early ass coffee
Every Thursday morning
Query barista

[Steve O]

Oh, and here’s your dog pic
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[Steve O]

@NemaVeze 172491 wrote:

ass-coffee

[NemaVeze]

@Steve O 172497 wrote:

ass-coffee

Zeke’s had a special kopi luwak tasting event at one point, but there’s no coffee club there!

[Author]

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