!! 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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[mrhappy_onabike]

@josh 175605 wrote:

By a dismal church
Twenty-first and Potomac
Under a green bush

I looked and looked, but twas gone.
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[mrhappy_onabike]

@huberww 175568 wrote:

Fireball + Cuervoball

Green Mountain Boys leader
Earthen fort was given his name
Cannon aims wide of dog park

Fireball back in play
Crossed a border on a breezy day
Once a capital defense
No battles whence
In a cannon not long to stay

However, I didst find this one!
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Here I am drinking the swag whilst sitting on the cannon.
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And heresh me later…schmiling
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[Birru]

Swag was shared with bike mechanics. The Phoenixball is currently being updated with homemade goodies.

[mrhappy_onabike]

And here is my cannon can-can victory dance

[reji]

The Fyreball has been hidden
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Harris Teeter house
In the garage in Falls Church
Parking for e-cars

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Proposed ordinance: If ye share your swagge with a straynger, ye shall be awarded 20 points.

[fxbooks]

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that should be “The House of Harris Teeter.”

[reji]

@fxbooks 175639 wrote:

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that should be “The House of Harris Teeter.”

Sigh. Wegmans, HT, Giant … they’re all the same to me. Thanks for pointing it out, I’ve fixed my haiku.

[Birru]

@reji 175638 wrote:

The Fyreball has been hidden

Harris Teeter house
In the garage in Falls Church
Parking for e-cars

Proposed ordinance: If ye share your swagge with a straynger, ye shall be awarded 20 points.

I propose another ordinance: Victory selfie video aboard the Harry the Happy Dragon ride (must be moving) is worth a bonus 20 points.

[reji]

@Birru 175644 wrote:

I propose another ordinance: Victory selfie video aboard the Harry the Happy Dragon ride (must be moving) is worth a bonus 20 points.

Yesssssssss!!!!

[Steve O]

@reji 175638 wrote:

The Fyreball has been hidden

Harris Teeter house
In the garage in Falls Church
Parking for e-cars

Proposed ordinance: If ye share your swagge with a straynger, ye shall be awarded 20 points.

After arriving at the Teeter of Harris, I did espy a tall young’un circling about within the cave of noisy carriages. However, I cycled with celerity and retrieveth said Calvinball just moments ere he pedaled up.
Here I partake of the bunny of sweetness
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Tho he be smiling, he may be harboring revengery
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Exhibiting enormous magnanimity, I didst share mine bounty with a stranger, Mary, at the Cafe Kindred in the nearby village.
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[Birru]

@Birru 175644 wrote:

I propose another ordinance: Victory selfie video aboard the Harry the Happy Dragon ride (must be moving) is worth a bonus 20 points.

@Steve O 175683 wrote:

After arriving at the Teeter of Harris, I did espy a tall young’un circling about within the cave of noisy carriages. However, I cycled with celerity and retrieveth said Calvinball just moments ere he pedaled up.
Here I partake of the bunny of sweetness

I can’t believe Steve O left 20 points on the table.

[Vicegrip]

Finally….

Nivlac ball’s Phoenix.
At the door of all fires ire.
You unlock the quest.

Don’t begin the quest.
Unless you intend to best.
A simple bike task.

Bikes, all Kinetic.
Need not be energetic.
Phoenix flight, remain upright.

Bunnies are dirty little buggers. I left the nivlaC ball in the shop for just a couple of days. It looks like I have gotten a bit behind in cleaning up after them. The kids took care of the bunnies and I replaced with some cute little chickens. Chickens never make a mess…….
Some swag added some removed.
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Proposed new ordnance. 50 points for the first to complete the quest and 20 points for anyone that completes the Quest thereafter.

[Steve O]

@Birru 175686 wrote:

I can’t believe Steve O left 20 points on the table.

I had to hasten to Cafe Kindred: coffee emergency.
Also, thine ordinance is nay official, so twas leery of bodily injury in service of no poyntes.

[Birru]

I got an elite. That’s worth like 9 likes.

[rcannon100]

Fireball is under the Spell of SteveO
Fireball2 is under the Spell of SteveO
Nivlacball was hidden in Falls Church by the evil master of fire and porsche
Phoenixball is under the spell of Birru

NEW TIM RULE: For these last two weeks – if you hold a Calvinball, you may not seek another Calvinball until you have hidden the first

As we wind down to the final 2 minute warning, I will remind pilgrims that the points dont matter.

HUBERWW Fireball
8 Points__ 10 Points for Find minus 2 points for every day that passes until the next find
__ 7 Points Limerick
__ 10 Points Pic of Beast (3x pic your dog getting bath with calvinball)
__ 5 Points Swag
__ 10 Points Consume Swag on Site
__ 3 Points Cross Frontier of Province
__ 3 Enchanted Points for those who are worthy
Huberww is awarded 46 Points

STEVEO Fireball 2
Found on the 24th. Next found on the 4th. 8 days passed (minus the first day). 10 – (7 * -2) = -4 points
__ 7 Points Limerick
__ 10 Points Consume Swag on Site
__ 10 Points Cross Frontier of Realm/Province
SteveO is awarded 23 points

EMM Fireball2
10 points for the hide without delay
__ 7 Points Limerick
__ 5 Points Swag
__ 3 Points Cross Frontier of Province
EMM is awarded 25 points

REJI Fireball2
10 points for the find without delay
__ 5 Points New Ordinance that gets 3 likes – If ye share your swagge with a straynger, ye shall be awarded 20 points.
__ 10 Points Consume Swag on Site
__ 3 Points Cross Frontier of Province
__ 3 Enchanted Points for those who are worthy
5 Points for swag (assuming the booze was replaced)
REJI is awarded 36 points

JON LEVINE Phoenixball
8 Points for the find (2 days past from find to find)
__ 15 Points First Find
__ 5 Points New Ordinance that gets 3 likes – 10 points for locating the Calvinball at night, cuz that’s when the freaks come out
__ 5 Points Swag
__ 3 Points Cross Frontier of Province
__ 3 Enchanted Points for those who are worthy
Jon Levine is awarded 39 points

JOSH Phoenixball
0 Points for the find (6 days passed)
__ 5 Points Swag
3 Points Cross Frontier of Province
Josh is awarded 8 points

Share your delusions of your score; its not nice not to share

Score and claptrap are on the first page.

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