!! 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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[CBGanimal]

Phoenix Ball rehidden…quickly in plain sight and happy to be light
On a Bee’s bike!
Rode more than a mile and crossed Arlington line…I did a happy dance but can’t upload…just ask LSG or Komorebi or Steve O or Sarah Bee or EMM or Birru…all will vouch for it!

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[CBGanimal]

@CBGanimal 174464 wrote:

Phoenix Ball rehidden…quickly in plain sight and happy to be light
On a Bee’s bike!
Rode more than a mile and crossed Arlington line…I did a happy dance but can’t upload…just ask LSG or Komorebi or Steve O or Sarah Bee or EMM or Birru…all will vouch for it!

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[kwarkentien]

Drop it in plain sight on Roo’s Ruze at New District Brewing Company and I will happily delight in its capture. Dilly dilly!!!!

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[CBGanimal]

@kwarkentien 174466 wrote:

Drop it in plain sight on Roo’s Ruze at New District Brewing Company and I will happily delight in its capture. Dilly dilly!!!!

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If I had brought a 3rd pair of dry gloves I might have gone to New District but we were drenched!

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[Steve O]

@CBGanimal 174464 wrote:

Phoenix Ball rehidden…quickly in plain sight and happy to be light
On a Bee’s bike!
Rode more than a mile and crossed Arlington line…I did a happy dance but can’t upload…just ask LSG or Komorebi or Steve O or Sarah Bee or EMM or Birru…all will vouch for it!

I vouch for the victory dance. It was quite scintillating.

Also, Sarah failed to make a BEE-line to the Phoenixball, and it seems Mr. Happy beat her to it.

[SarahBee]

@Steve O 174479 wrote:

I vouch for the victory dance. It was quite scintillating.

Also, Sarah failed to make a BEE-line to the Phoenixball, and it seems Mr. Happy beat her to it.

I am still deeply offended by having the Phoenixball stolen from under my cream-puffed nose. Also offensive was your victory dance. Tim the Enchanter take note- SteveO’s dance was so offensive it almost caused a #metoo moment!

[SarahBee]

@CBGanimal 174472 wrote:

If I had brought a 3rd pair of dry gloves I might have gone to New District but we were drenched!

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CBGAnimal, I know why you’re Tim the Enchanter’s favorite. You’re my favorite too!!!

[mrhappy_onabike]

I can also vouch that Steve O’s victory dance was both ugly and offensive. I made him do it.

Here’s me nabbing the Phoenixball right off Sarah Bee’s bike.
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And here’s me with all the swag.
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Here’s a picture of dogs
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And here’s Steve O reacting to the great swag
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[josh]

Whichever ball I had is now out there:
There once was a boy who upon a ball lucked
And left it by a bridge Aqueduct
Someone find it fast
I don’t think it will last
If not our game is most certainly …

The ball itself:
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The view in the opposite direction:
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My delusion of points earned and lost:
10 (new base for find)
+7 (a bawdy limerick)
+10 (across state lines, from VA to elsewhere)
+ 5 (new consumable swag)
-0 (Tarantallegra Spell was not yet in effect when I obtained the ball)
-10 (5*-2 for delay of game, assuming ball is found before ~10pm tomorrow, could potentially increase depending on when the ball is found)
= 22 points

Miscellaneous notes: I have consumed the found swag, but it was not on premise. Also, I’m casting the spell of the Warlock Judd on CBGanimal, which I’ve charged over the course of 5 laps (see Strava activity #1395493718), but without panniers, so only -15 points to her.

New ordinance: This is a new spell, Wingardium Leviosa. The way it works is that each time you’re hit with the curse of Judd, you can invoke it on one ride (to be started and finished within two days of the cursing), and every 200 feet one climbs gains one bonus point, and this is capped at 2 times the damage you’re hit with. E.g., CBGanimal will be taking a 15 point hit from my curse, and if she casts Wingardium Leviosa and does a ride with 1183 feet of elevation gain in the next two days, she will receive 5 points. The bonus would max out if she climbed 6000 feet in one ride (15 * 2 * 200), and would result in the damage being nullified (plus a bonus equal to the original damage).

[rcannon100]

Cleverly hidden Calvinball “Fireball”

With several Pilgrims kneeling at the altar but no one yet claiming the Fireball

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[rcannon100]

Fireball was last seen on the altar of some demented bicycle cult
Nilvacball is hidden on a roman acquaduct
Phoenixball was stolen by SteveO from the evil Sarahbee

I am nixing my Hidden in Plain Sight ordinance. I think it had a bit too much eye-of-newt in it. I have a replacement spell in mind that should achieve similar evilness.

EMM
10 Points for the find without delay
15 Points for first find
10 points for the dog picture
3 Points for crossing the frontier of provinces
-2 No Dance (blame SteveO)
EMM is awarded 36 points

CGBanimal found the Phoenixball under a dumpling
10 Points for the find without delay
Says she crossed the frontier of provinces. 3 points
SteveO vouched for the dance. 4 Points.
CGBanimal is awarded 17 points

Please tell me the score that you are under the delusion you have earned (plain english translation: just make clear what points you are claiming – like if you include swag, tell me – other wise I have no way of knowing – if you want to do a full accounting like Josh did, that’s great!)

Codified canon and score are maintained in the library of the first page of the thread.

[Steve O]

Mr. Happy has transferred the Phoenixball to me. He cannot make brownies with his little, bitty hands.

A new Phoenixball! A flamingo.
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The flamingo is guarding these home-made brownies.
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If you like the flamingo and you like brownies, you should click “like” below.

[Steve O]

On the C-ball can you draw a bead?
Ride slowly or go with some speed
I think it is true
You don’t need a clue
A picture is all that you need!

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Ordinance: If Calvinball ist found in or neare an establishment of foode or drinke, one may consume said proprietor’s goods (photo documented) and be awarded thy same pointes as consumeth of swag. No duple dipping, however. Awardeth of 10 points shall be the maximum for swag/locality consumption.

[Steve O]

@rcannon100 174524 wrote:

Phoenixball was stolen by SteveO from the evil Sarahbee

Fake news!! It was Mr. Happy who found the Phoenixball and stole it off Sarah Bee’s bike. I would never, ever do such a thing to my dear friend.

[Emm]

@rcannon100 174524 wrote:

EMM
10 Points for the find without delay
15 Points for first find
10 points for the dog picture
3 Points for crossing the frontier of provinces
-2 No Dance (blame SteveO)
EMM is awarded 36 points

Please tell me the score that you are under the delusion you have earned (plain english translation: just make clear what points you are claiming – like if you include swag, tell me – other wise I have no way of knowing – if you want to do a full accounting like Josh did, that’s great!)

I claim points for swag–I included kind bars and a reflective Po Campo pin, which I stole back from Steve O and gave to it’s rightful owner, SarahBee.

[Author]

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