!! 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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[Steve O]

@rcannon100 173908 wrote:

Please tell me what points you are under the delusion that you earned.

Methinks thou forgot to awardeth me 0 points due for executing streetsmarts’s ordinance.

[Mtansill]

Phoenix Ball

You mustn’t be daft
Head to Lake Artemesia
Look under the raft!

There once was a wizard named Tim
Had a bicycle that just couldn’t swim
So he hooked up an otter
Was towed cross the water
And here ends a story of win!

New ordinance: The Phoenix Ball must be hidden next near a body of water.

Someone might like the new swag:
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[rcannon100]

Nivlacball hidden

6C367

The Spell of the Warlock Judd is codified canon

PS I believe the Nivlacball has been found. Maybe it will make another appearance this evening??? Ah the mysteries of wonder of the Calvinball.

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[bentbike33]

@rcannon100 173981 wrote:

Nivlacball hidden

Shouldn’t it be “Llabnivlac”?

[Stryke]

Ye Phoenixball has been recovered, the next stop in its migration will be revealed tomorrow.

[huberww]

Nivlac Ball (Llabnivlac?) magically appeared outside of my door. Said door happeneth to be within a supposedly secure Federal building, demonstrating that the powers of Tim the Enchanter knoweth few bounds.

Senate floor insult,
Duel held near this marker,
Pistol shots go wide.

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Cross the Potowmack atop a span of chain,
Oh no, the monster incline on 41st again,
Pause to suck air,
Historical marker there,
15 paces east from the mark at copse edge its been lain.

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Picture of pupper with Nivlac ball, and gratuitous pupper shot. (No puppy was harmed nor consumeth any chocolate in the production of this post.)

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Part of swag consumed on location; additional swag added.

Nivlac ball has crossed state lines.

Proposed ordinance: If you post a picture of an exceptionally clean puppy, Tim may award a bonus of your pupper-related points (or your total points if so moved Tim shalt be) by cubing (x3) same.

Shot of extra-clean doggo.

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[Stryke]

Contraptions hath been solved and foodstuffs refreshed. The Pheonixball hath once again rejoined the wild.
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NOAA magic dish
Take the path less traveled
Under silver box

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Proposed ordinance:
If thine Calvinball resideth in all three realms of man (not two, not four) within seven orbits of the sun, then it shall reproduce and a second Calvinball shall entereth into play.

[streetsmarts]

@Stryke 174037 wrote:

Contraptions hath been solved and foodstuffs refreshed. The Pheonixball hath once again rejoined the wild.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]16705[/ATTACH]

NOAA magic dish
Take the path less traveled
Under silver box

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16706[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16707[/ATTACH]

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Proposed ordinance:
If thine Calvinball resideth in all three realms of man (not two, not four) within seven orbits of the sun, then it shall reproduce and a second Calvinball shall entereth into play.

Like it but don’t quite understandeth the ordinance

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[Stryke]

@streetsmarts 174041 wrote:

Like it but don’t quite understandeth the ordinance

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If a Calvinball is hidden in Virginia, DC, and Maryland within one week (must be the same Calvinball being hidden in each), create another Calvinball.

[mrhappy_onabike]

@huberww 174036 wrote:

Senate floor insult,
Duel held near this marker,
Pistol shots go wide.

Cross the Potowmack atop a span of chain,
Oh no, the monster incline on 41st again,
Pause to suck air,
Historical marker there,
15 paces east from the mark at copse edge its been lain.

That was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy more than 15 paces
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[mrhappy_onabike]

The NivlacMouse rides again!!!
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[mrhappy_onabike]

Past the danger shark
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Over the bridge and through the stream
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Under the old tire
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Ordinance:
One shalt do victory dance upon finding the Calvinball. Danceth shalt be documented either by video-gizmo or by eye-witnesse testimonial of thine accomplice, who shalt accurately describe said dance. Victory dance must be three ticks of the clock hands or longer. Faylure shall result in loss of 2 points. Success shalt be rewarded with 4 pointes.

[rcannon100]

SCORE

RCANNON100
100 points for being the best Calvinball player
3 Enchanted points for all the dog pictures

MSTANSILL
15 Points for first find
10 Points for find without delay
5 Points for new ordinance – you must hide the calvinball near a body of water. So make sure the Potomac, or the Anacostia, or the Cheasapeake, or Rock Creek, or Donaldson Run, or 4MR, or the Canal….. is somewhere near by
5 Points for confusing this game with Frozenmon
7 Points for a limerick
Mstansill is awarded 42 points

HUBERWW
10 Points for the find without delay
5 Points – Dog in bath-torture-device codified
10 Points for a pic of a pupper
3 enchanted points for making that incredibly difficult find
7 Points for Limerick
5 Points for MORE CHOCOLATE
10 Points for crossing the frontier of realms
Huberww is awarded 50 points proving that point inflation is getting completely out of hand

Please tell Tim what points you are under the delusion that you have earned

Score and code is maintained on the Library of the first page of the thread

[Steve O]

Note to Tim the Salamander:

Players have written haiku
And written a limerick, too
Although they try hard
No points for their card
Since ord’nance says plainly, “in lieu”

[streetsmarts]

I dreamt of Calvinball . That is all.

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