!! 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]

@Emm 174552 wrote:

and a reflective Po Campo pin, which I stole back from Steve O and gave to it’s rightful owner, SarahBee.

Wait…what!? That’s nefarious!

[schvin]

this calvinball deployment is due to a seriously sweet lay-up by a certain bearded wizard.

hopefully i hid it well enough, but not too well.
i enjoyed half of the bourbon, and deviated from the theme a bit with some goodies of my own, enjoy!

crossed a river with the ball (once on a bike, twice in a car, is that cheating?). i think i avoided nps though that b0rked many of my original ideas. hopefully this is easy enough for anyone to find! it’s near the scene of the opening happy hour, at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in dc.

obviously, Maggie was involved, aiming for black lab points.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/schvin/shares/i6A3n4

[rcannon100]

Nivlacball acquired

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[streetsmarts]

Fireball acquired . ^^ that one.

Now to catch up on weeks of new rules…. don’t hold your breath.

[streetsmarts]

Important Stuff
* Everyone is to bring Tim the Enchanter cookies

How doth one bring Tim the Enchanter cookies??
Does Tim attend the HH on the 15th? Komorebi’s ride on the 17th, or Judd’s President’s day ride?

[streetsmarts]

Ok so I got a calvinball. Here’s the swag: good stuff.

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[streetsmarts]

Calvinball (one of em):

On Custis com-ing from DC

Near Lincoln’s a tree with a vee

Look behind said bare trunk
Green bot-tle filled with junk

That’s the calvinball, which seeketh thee

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[josh]

Calvinball was too conveniently located to pass up.
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[Judd]

@streetsmarts 174574 wrote:

Important Stuff
* Everyone is to bring Tim the Enchanter cookies

How doth one bring Tim the Enchanter cookies??
Does Tim attend the HH on the 15th? Komorebi’s ride on the 17th, or Judd’s President’s day ride?

You should probably bring them to the President’s Day ride. I’ll *totally* make sure they get to Tim the Enchanter.

[Steve O]

@josh 174587 wrote:

Calvinball was too conveniently located to pass up.

I was about to chew out streetsmarts for making such a vague clue. Every tree looks like it has a vee after you look behind about 20 of them. You must have beaten me by only a little bit. I was there about 10:15pm on my way home from a DC event.

[Steve O]

@Judd 174588 wrote:

You should probably bring them to the President’s Day ride. I’ll *totally* make sure they get to Tim the Enchanter.

Actually, HDCC is better. I know exactly where Tim the Enyanker lives, so I can personally deliver.

[Steve O]

@Steve O 174547 wrote:

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.

Bump. Unless someone has not announced this find.

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[rcannon100]

Notice of Proposed Ordinance: The Corleone Spell: If a Calvinball is found by a novice (someone who has not found a Calvinball before), the hider may cast the Corleono Spell and get a piece of the action, earning 20% of the Novice’s total initial score (Novice keeps full score; hider gets a 20% commission).

Nivlacball to be hidden around lunch time today

[CBGanimal]

Couldn’t help myself…craving brownies! PhoenixBall captured! sorry Ken!

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[CBGanimal]

PhoenixBall is hidded!
On the bridge to nowhere at all
On the right as you climb don’t fall
Cross the bridge off the custis
On the right in a tree’s huskis
Step down 5 stair
And find a Valentine’s Day fair

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