Calvinball 2019 Official Thread

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December 26, 2018 at 2:43 pm #920857
josh
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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:
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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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January 11, 2019 at 9:43 pm #1093788

SarahBee
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Hailing Tim the Enchanter, Bruce the Sleepy, and Josh the Calvinball Administrator, since the Calvinball has reproduced, should double points be awarded to a player who takes a Calvinball and hides it in the Land of Mary? (It might be nice to include our friends across the border, no?)

January 11, 2019 at 9:58 pm #1093789

LeprosyStudyGroup
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@Emm 185435 wrote:

2nd Calvinball placed with updated swag contained within.

Hint: Fridays at the Fountain, behind where the stage was. Walk across the moat, watch out for crocodiles.

I humbly request 2 bonus points for whomever finds this ball and consumes the beverage contained within on site (photographic evidence required).

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Calvinball found and contents consumed.
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January 11, 2019 at 10:00 pm #1093790

SarahBee
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@LeprosyStudyGroup 185481 wrote:

Calvinball found and contents consumed.
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I wish I could elite that video!!!!!

January 11, 2019 at 10:44 pm #1093797

sszibler
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Waaa![ATTACH=CONFIG]18871[/ATTACH]

January 11, 2019 at 11:01 pm #1093801

mydear_watson
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@CBGanimal 185380 wrote:

A CalvinBall has been placed back in the wild…or as wild as Shirlington can get! Be careful crossing the crosswalk of doom!

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CalvinBall II has been acquired.
Surprised it was still there!!

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January 12, 2019 at 12:26 am #1093819

sszibler
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@mydear_watson 185493 wrote:

CalvinBall II has been acquired.
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Triple waaaaah!

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January 12, 2019 at 1:10 am #1093826

CBGanimal
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@LeprosyStudyGroup 185481 wrote:

Calvinball found and contents consumed.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/PB1dHrv.gifv[/IMG]
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Perfect video! Hahaha

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January 12, 2019 at 2:03 am #1093837

Steve O
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@sszibler 185511 wrote:

Triple waaaaah!
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So did you find the one on Four Mile Run?
No one else has claimed it, so it may still be there.

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January 12, 2019 at 2:06 am #1093841

rcannon100
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@LeprosyStudyGroup 185481 wrote:

Calvinball found and contents consumed.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/PB1dHrv.gifv[/IMG]
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January 12, 2019 at 2:06 am #1093842

CBGanimal
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@Steve O 185531 wrote:

So did you find the one on Four Mile Run?
No one else has claimed it, so it may still be there.

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I thought there was three! Now I see that each pic was a CalvinBall!

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January 12, 2019 at 2:20 am #1093845

Emm
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Hobbes appears to still be out there… Poor little dude is probably lonely and freezing under the rock [emoji22]

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January 12, 2019 at 3:37 am #1093853

sszibler
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@Steve O 185531 wrote:

So did you find the one on Four Mile Run?
No one else has claimed it, so it may still be there.

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I guess not! I really tried, but was either not in the right place or didn’t search long enough. Didn’t see any brown paper bags by logs up and down both sides of those black and white signs. But it was dark . . .

January 12, 2019 at 3:38 am #1093854

sszibler
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@Emm 185539 wrote:

Hobbes appears to still be out there… Poor little dude is probably lonely and freezing under the rock [emoji22]

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How did you get the tear emoji to work, emm. I don’t see it on the forum and when I put it in from my iPhone, I just get ??

Some how I thought it was by a log. I didn’t look under any rocks, just next to them.

OH, is he under leaves?? Poor Hobbes.

January 12, 2019 at 4:49 am #1093858

Emm
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@sszibler 185548 wrote:

I guess not! I really tried, but was either not in the right place or didn’t search long enough. Didn’t see any brown paper bags by logs up and down both sides of those black and white signs. But it was dark . . .

He’s in a rock crevice just by that sign…

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January 12, 2019 at 3:12 pm #1093865

Steve O
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Rumor has it that Mr. Happy Onabike has rescued Hobbes

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