!! C a l v i n b a l l !!
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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.
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“[IMG]https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/87978-calvinball.jpg?w=306&h=313[/IMG]
* 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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The Calvinball has been rehidden! Find it where kids learn to ridden…(WOD and Columbia Pike)
Find the circles (painted dots) within the circle…face the stop sign in the circle and walk 27 paces (walking between the stop sign and the benches) look down in the earth faces…
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got a picture of the snoodle!
New proposed ordinance…since we now know the general vicinity of Tim the Enchanted’s work place (DC warf) I proposedly decree it be there with cookies! Trying to make up points for loosing it…(please)Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
SCORE
Tim the Enchanter is angry. Tim the Enchanter is wrathful. Tim the Enchanter needs cookies!
People are losing the Calvinballs! Worst yet, Tim has to somehow divine scores out of this mess.
FXBOOKS
5 for the find
I think this is FXBOOKS first find so FXBOOKS gets 15 additional find points
Tim conjured his very best magic ~ nevertheless he could not Metamorphmagus a cat into a dog. Dilly Dilly. If you want points for felines, you must draft that ordinance (yes – Tim derives most of his power from Cerberus)
FXBOOKS moved the Nivlacball from the Realm that no one cares about – to Arlington. 3 points.
FXBOOKS is awarded 23 points@CBGanimal 173357 wrote:
The Calvinball has been rehidden! Find it where kids learn to ridden…(WOD and Columbia Pike)
Find the circles (painted dots) within the circle…face the stop sign in the circle and walk 27 paces (walking between the stop sign and the benches) look down…Found. Great swag!
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Cleric: And Saint Attila raised the Calvinball up on high, saying, ‘O Lord, bless this Thy Calvinball that had been lost in JOY, and yet, in thy mercy, rises from the ashes – being resurrected in the Glen of Carlyn
From hence force, let this sacred ball be known as the Phoenixball;
And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chu —
Brother Maynard: Skip a bit, Brother.Cleric: Right…. Tim the Enchanter…. having fallen behind in his accounting obligations and most likely imprisoned in Castle Anthrax… is, er, pre occupied. So we, the keepers of the Holy Hand Grenade, shall divine the score
SCORE
CBGanimal
For losing the Phoenixball in the land of JOY – shall be banished to Castle of Guy de Lombard.
Her new ordinance that everyone is to bring Tim the Enchanter cookies is enacted as sacred law.
5 Points for “great swag”
10 Points for a picture of some beast
CBGanimal acquired the Calvinball in Alexandria and hid the Phoenixball in Arlington – 3 points for crossing county lines
And drinking Makers Mark first thing in the morning is probably what got us in this mess in the first place. – 10 points
For authoring the myth of the Phoenixball, CBGanimal is awarded 33 pointsSteveO
The pilgrim who be not playing Freezing Saddles then unearthed the Phoenixball next. Whereupon the pilgrim hid the Phoenixball in what we take to be his own apartment. What manner of dark magic be this we are uncertain but we know, as it is written in the Third Book of Antioch, that his soul shall suffer a millenium of molten rock from the mountain of Vulcan.
5 points for the find
His ordinance lacks the requisite three likes – Dilly Dilly
He did not stoop to once again posting a picture of a beast – Dilly Dilly
The puzzle itself looks like cool swag – 5 points
Placing the Phoenixball in your own apartment or whereever does not constitute crossing a realm’s borders – dilly dilly
SteveO get’s 3 enchanted points for an excellent hide
SteveO is awarded 13 pointsAmen
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