!! 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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[rcannon100]

Nivlacball has been rescued from a bizarre cycling cult and is hidden somewhere in Park Fairfax
Fireball is in the Library of Little Chris Slatt
Phoenixball is with … um…. Josh! :rolleyes:.

RCANNON100
RCANNON100 gets another 100 points for his outstanding play

PETED Phoenixball
-13 Points for Collusion with Josh
4 Points for Charlotte dancing
10 Points for picture of a beast
10 Points for find without delay
15 Points for first find
7 Points Lemonrock
10 Points for eating brownies baked by a cyclist musician (hummmmmm)
5 Points for the hat
3 Points for crossing the frontier of provinces
Charlotte is awarded 64 points

JOSH Fireball
8 Points for the Find (found on the 13th and next found on the 15th)
3 Enchanted Points for the innovative mobile hide
10 Points (found in Arlington, next find was in DC)
7 Points for Lemonrock
-2 Points No Dance or Song
Josh is awarded 26 Points

Josh cast the Spell of Corleone which will be calculated after Judd lies about his score

Judd cast the Spell of Warlock Himself against SteveO for -3 points

Please share the delusions of your score.

Scores and Codified Claptrap are Careful Kept in the Library of the First Page of the Threat

[CBGanimal]

So close but so late! Ughh

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[josh]

@CBGanimal 174807 wrote:

So close but so late! Ughh

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How do you kill that which has no life?

Update in the works.

[josh]

Calvinball hat trick completed, headed out shortly to hide them.

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[josh]

By some famous steps
In some bushes to the left
Not the exorcist

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Edit: Calvinball (last hidden by Sunyata), ziplock bag with Tupperware, DC

Edit 2: It’s the Spanish Steps in Kalorama

[rcannon100]

Josh please tell me which you ball you are hiding, and in what jurisdiction. Ppl also need to know what they are looking for (which container – which ball – it is)

Thanks

[josh]

The sign says the end
For lots of trash and garbage?
Bates and Fort Totten

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[josh]

Bottle behind rock
Come on my Marylanders
Off Sligo Creek Trail

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Edit: don’t know the area well enough to know if the photo is at all distinctive, so this is off New Hampshire

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[Stryke]

@josh 174824 wrote:

Bottle behind rock
Come on my Marylanders
Off Sligo Creek Trail

Yay Maryland! Might be time for a foray.

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[rcannon100]

Josh hid the Phoenixball somewhere not Virginia
Josh hid the Fireball somewhere not Virginia
Josh hid the Nivlacball somewhere not Virginia

And someone just complained to me that Virginians are hogging the balls

SUNYATA (who braved a bizarre bicycle cult to save the Nivlacball)
10 Points for the Find Without Delay
15 Points for First Find
10 Points eating ACME Pie
5 Points Swag
7 Points Lemonrock
10 Points picture of beasts
3 Enchanted points for them both looking at the same time
3 points for crossing the frontier of provinces as far as I can tell
-2 Sunyata Dont Dance
Suntata is awarded 61 points

JUDD for stealing the Fireball from Bill
10 Points for Find without Delay
15 Points for First Find
7 Points for Lemonrock
4 Points for an ugly dance
10 Points for eating chocolate
10 Points for a puppy picture
3 Enchanted points for being a puppy pusher
10 Points for crossing the frontier of realms
5 Points for swag
Aw I actually liked your proposed rule. But it has a net -1 likes. Dilly Dilly
Woah. Judd is awarded 74 points
That means — * sigh * —- according to the Spell of Corleone – Josh gets a piece of the action 15 points

Please share the delusions of the score you think you earned (use the convenient scorecard)

Scores and Codified claptrap carefully kept in the library of the first page of this thread

[josh]

I forgot to create new ordinances, was sleep deprived and wanted to get the Calvinballs out sooner rather than later. Quantity > Quality, I guess. Here’s a dog with the Phoenixball though:
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As a simultaneous holder of Calvinballs, I’d like to abolish the Tarantallegra Spell ordinance (although too late to help me for these finds). I have three laps, no panniers, for the curse of the Warlock Judd (activity #1411167424). I’m assuming I’m not allowed to double-dip with them, so I’d like to apply all three to CBGanimal. Let’s see how much climbing she wants to do.

Phoenixball
10 – (2*?) : base
10 : a beautiful beast
-2 : no dancing/singing
10 : VA -> DC

Fireball
10 – (2*?) : base
-2 : no dancing/singing
10 : VA -> MD

Calvinball
10 – (2*?) : base
-2 : no dancing/singing
10 : VA -> DC

[Judd]

@rcannon100 174839 wrote:

Aw I actually liked your proposed rule. But it has a net -1 likes. Dilly Dilly

Hopefully someone will repropose to incentivize new players joining the game.

[chuxtr]

Not playing Calvinball, but posting this … just because.

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[Stryke]

Today the Fireball was both retrieved and hidden again.

Georgetown aqueduct
Rowing shells in the darkness
Hidden behind rock

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Discovery of the wondrous Fireball and the remnants of delicious, delicious swag consumed upon discovery. Additional swag was added to refill the Fireball.

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Shop pupper!

Delusion of points:
Points for find (exact amount TBD?)
10 points for pupper
5 points swag
10 points for consuming swag on site
10 points for changing realms

4 cranks of the Hamster Wheel of Misery were completed while carrying the Fireball to it’s latest abode. Channeling the power of the hamster wheel, the spell of Warlock Judd is cast upon CBGanimal (Strava activity 1414814062).

Forgot about the Lycra Amendment, don’t have solid evidence but I was riding my commuter with a pannier, you can kind of see it in the first hint picture.

[Stryke]

Proposed ordinance:
Nosferatu, when casting the spell of Warlock Judd if the caster is more than 100 points behind the victim, they gain the points that were taken from the victim.

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