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

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  • #919989
    rcannon100
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    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.

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    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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  • #1082300
    Steve O
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    @rcannon100 172801 wrote:

    Yeah, “Wizard” Cartman here…. filling in for the “All Knowing” Tim the Enchanter who is busy negotiating the Government Shutdown (cough “drunk”). Yeah, uh, in His Mightiness’ absence – could you cut me a stone and tell me what realm the Nivlacball was found in. I believe that would be The Old Line State??

    As per the haiku:
    Like “Sex and Candy”
    Looking over Potomac
    Left of the concrete

    First line refers to Marcy Playground. I almost went to Ft. Marcy Park in McLean, which would have been a wild goose chase. Actually refers to Marcey Rd, as per 2nd line – Potomac Overlook Park off Military Rd., not far from Tim the Enchanter’s lair.

    #1082348
    mrhappy_onabike
    Participant

    The Nivlacball is this mysterious package. Haiku to follow later today.
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    #1082364
    Steve O
    Participant

    @mrhappy_onabike 172863 wrote:

    The Nivlacball is this mysterious package. Haiku to follow later today.

    Not in Austria
    For sale: recumbents, foldies
    Ask Tim at counter

    Proposed ordinance: new players who hath ne’er captured a calvinball are hereby awarded 15 bonus points upon thy first capture.

    Here’s the dog that “helped” me with the piano tuning I did yesterday.

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    #1082366
    NemaVeze
    Participant

    Did someone get it?
    Couldn’t find it anywhere.
    Wellp, nice day to ride.

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    #1082381
    rcannon100
    Participant

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    #1082382
    reji
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    The Calvinball has been found and put back into play.

    Alexandria
    Jamieson and Holland
    Look behind the wall

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    New proposed ordinance: If swag is consumed on premise, 10 points shall be awarded.

    #1082374
    CBGanimal
    Participant

    Calvinball has been found and consumed! Yes it’s 8am…I’m much warmer now!

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    #1082412
    NemaVeze
    Participant

    I looked up there! Weird.

    #1082413
    Steve O
    Participant

    @NemaVeze 172929 wrote:

    I looked up there! Weird.

    I believe that’s because they were there before you

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    #1082333
    CBGanimal
    Participant

    The whiskey I consumed
    The Calvin ball is rehidden in Hyattsville it lies because the tree it likes
    Baltimore Ave just past Farragut going north
    The JOY is a sign
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    #1082422
    CBGanimal
    Participant

    New ordinance: Share the Calvinball treasure with another FS rider…

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    #1082435
    rcannon100
    Participant

    SCORE

    Wizard Cartman here for your dork game while Tim resides in the Dark Kingdom of Kongress (that’s where dog toys are stuffed with a thousand suffering souls of peanut butter). Let’s get this over with. I’m kind of tired after spending that last hour maintaining a hex on Jacksonville (you didn’t think Brady could win a football game without the help of black magic, did you? That guy sold his soul a looooong time ago.).

    NemaVeze
    5 Points for Swag (chain brush!)
    5 Points for Find
    5 Points for new ordinance (crossing borders)
    10 Points for the $2m puppy picture
    -15 points for missing the obviously hidden Calvinball down at Nats Park. I mean…. It was right there. How could you miss it. Even Reji could see it even tho it was WAY WAY above her head!!!
    NemaVeze is awarded 25 points

    Josh
    Nivlacball
    10 Points for crossing borders
    5 Points for Swag
    5 Points new ordinance
    5 points for the find
    Total 25 Points

    Calvinball
    10 Points for crossing borders
    4 points for the find (took more than one day to find hide)
    5 Points for Swag
    Total 19 Points

    However since Josh captured both Calvinballs simultaneously, one Calvinball’s score obliterates the other and he is left with a mere 6 points. You knew the risks yet you just had to capture both Calvinballs. Dont Toy with Wizards!!!!

    Reji
    5 Points for the find
    5 Points for the Makers Mark (I am so glad Calvinball is becoming a chapter of AA)
    10 points for borders
    5 Points for new ordinance
    3 enchanted points for giving whiskey to Tim the Enchanter
    My Captain (who would not let me nap at the end of Saturday’s 50 mile ride!) is awarded 28 points

    Reminder that the codified ordinances as well as the official score are maintained in the Library of the First Page of this Thread.

    Just kidding about the two scores obliterating each other Josh

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    #1082497
    Steve O
    Participant

    The Nivlacball is still missing. Here’s a hint if you need it:

    @Steve O 172879 wrote:

    Not in Austria
    For sale: recumbents, foldies
    Ask Tim at counter

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    #1082505
    CBGanimal
    Participant

    @Steve O 173004 wrote:

    The Nivlacball is still missing. Here’s a hint if you need it:

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    Thank you Steve for the hint…but the better hint would have been the hours of operation…because “Tim behind the counter” did not open the shop! a266449001ce42fbe4f0bb21e62a2331.jpg

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    #1082517
    Steve O
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    @CBGanimal 173033 wrote:

    Thank you Steve for the hint…but the better hint would have been the hours of operation…because “Tim behind the counter” did not open the shop!

    I never thought it would last til Monday. Figured someone would have gotten it Saturday or Sunday. Oh, well; that’s Calvinball!

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