Calvinball 2019 Official Thread

[josh]

Welcome to Calvinball, where the rules are constantly made up and the points don’t matter!

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I am the new Tim the Enchanter, also known as Bruce the Sleepy — keeper of the scores and arbiter of the rules. I will begin the game by hiding the Calvinball and posting here.

Initial 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 rotation of the Earth. 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.

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Ordinances that matter:

• 3 points for pic of Calvinball balanced on head
• 2 points for on-site consumption
• 10 points for wearing the friendship bracelet to the closing happy hour (hunt me down to show me)

Ephemeral Ordinances and ones that don’t matter:

• Staying in DC
• Bringing it back to VA
• Freeing Hobbes
• Friendshipball is called the friendshipball
• Nepotismball’s band should be worn

Scores:
Spreadsheet

Prizes:
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

Notes:
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: don’t make your hides hard or your rules constraining. The more silliness the better)
This is not a winner take all game — “The points don’t matter”

Thanks to rcannon100 for moderating last year’s Calvinball game and providing a template for this thread.

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[CBGanimal]

@sszibler 187172 wrote:

Got SiberHobbes, but haven’t had a chance to look to see how he’s doing yet. I had some Garmin and phone issues and now I’m kid and dog sitting. I hope they all get along!

So you got Hobbles and didn’t even say Hi at WBTW happy hour?

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[sszibler]

@CBGanimal 187173 wrote:

So you got Hobbles and didn’t even say Hi at WBTW happy hour?

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Besides not knowing what the WBTW is, was, or will be, I was running late for kid-sitting, and that’s when I started having major issues with my poopy Garmin 520 that still won’t work and I lost my Stravaed ride trying to fix it. I thought maybe someone was still there after hiding it, and wanted to say “hi”, but I knew that would probably make me real late. I was 10 minutes late as it was (but so was mom who was cooking, so it worked out). Sorry!

[sszibler]

Picnic in Bluemont
Be careful on the gravel
And the table too!

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[CBGanimal]

@sszibler 187206 wrote:

Besides not knowing what the WBTW is, was, or will be, I was running late for kid-sitting, and that’s when I started having major issues with my poopy Garmin 520 that still won’t work and I lost my Stravaed ride trying to fix it. I thought maybe someone was still there after hiding it, and wanted to say “hi”, but I knew that would probably make me real late. Sorry!

No problem…we just wondered…thought maybe someone else (not a FS peep) ran off with it!
Sorry about your Strava issues!

And WBTWD stands for Winter Bike To Work Day!!!

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[CBGanimal]

@sszibler 187207 wrote:

Picnic in Bluemont
Be careful on the gravel
And the table too!

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Hobbles spent the night outside…since after too many wines and the darkness befallen I could not find home!
But saved him this morning! And brought him a friend!

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[CBGanimal]

Hobbles and Calvin sit near Northside in Clarendon…Had to make it smaller and less conspicuous!
Find us fast or we may be seen!

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[sszibler]

SiberHobbes and Friend (Calvin? Suzie?) like The Simpson’s and Bob’s Burgers (they were laughing hysterically about “booger’s”). SH had regaled me with some tale about a child stuffing Suzie into a cannon and how he saved her by biting the kid in the butt! I think he made the whole thing up and just didn’t like being outside all day when he could be watching teevee. They both keep telling me not to make them go out again to play the stupid game.

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[sszibler]

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They wanted to be near readers, not gut-feelers.

[Steve O]

Bump. Where are the Murrlanders? They can play, too.

@SarahBee 187163 wrote:

Calvinball contents have been replaced and it has crossed state lines into MD. Find it in a planter near the blue bear in college park.

[sszibler]

@Steve O 187278 wrote:

Bump. Where are the Murrlanders? They can play, too.

If it stops raining . . .

and being cold . . .

and dark . . .

[drevil]

@Steve O 187278 wrote:

Bump. Where are the Murrlanders? They can play, too.

Dangit. Literally right there this evening. Sorry, I’ve been out of it, and even let the Hobbes-tracker map lapse. Busy and stuffs. Anyone else want to pick up where I left off for the map?

[Mtansill]

@drevil 187285 wrote:

Dangit. Literally right there this evening. Sorry, I’ve been out of it, and even let the Hobbes-tracker map lapse. Busy and stuffs. Anyone else want to pick up where I left off for the map?

I suspect that one of us will make a pick up before the day is done…

[sszibler]

Captured the CB. The College Park one. Twixt. Yum.

[Steve O]

I found the Hobbes ball at the UDC campus after circling around for a while. No one seemed to recognize that plaque; I had to find it on my own.

I balanced it on my head.
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Siber Hobbes and Whatzis Face would not stop whining about wanting to watch teevee. They’ve become completely spoiled. So I let them watch Triplets of Belleville, which they found disturbingly dark.

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[Steve O]

Hobbes and Hoozit are enjoying a delicious espresso behind the counter as per these photos.

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