Calvinball 2020 Official Thread

[josh]

Sorry for the delay in getting this up, but starting on the first of January isn’t that bad. Also, I’m proud to present to you a pointless prize that doesn’t just involve eating/drinking and tagging rides. Without any further ado, here we go:
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Bruce the Sleepy/josh is returning as Tim the Enchanter for a new game of Calvinball. I am the sole keeper of the scores and arbiter of the rules, although I’ll strive to be less capricious than rcannon100. 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.

Created Ordinances

Scores
Spreadsheet

Prizes
TBD

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”
Don’t be too incestuous with your hiding and finding please, I don’t want to drop the hammer on anyone

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[sszibler]

@Vec5d 197477 wrote:

Unfortunately the contents have not changed, I passed it on as is en route!

Haha! In my defense if you buy those things at a bike shop they can be almost $4!

I almost want to go get it tonight still, but I’m warm now and it’s almost time for Colbert. Good spot!

[shirag]

Calvinball has been found and will probably join komorebi’s ride to the Block tomorrow

[shirag]

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[lordofthemark]

So, somehow I ended up with the Calvinball (proving that you need not seek the Calvinball, if it’s your fate to have it, it will seek you) Some kindly folks told me the kind of thing I need to do with it, sparing me from needing to read the rules.

It is out in the wild again. Here is a hint at its location

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

To be clear it is NOT at the Kennedy Center.

Also there is now some food in it that is definitely NOT a power bar.

[sszibler]

@lordofthemark 197560 wrote:

So, somehow I ended up with the Calvinball (proving that you need not seek the Calvinball, if it’s your fate to have it, it will seek you) Some kindly folks told me the kind of thing I need to do with it, sparing me from needing to read the rules.

It is out in the wild again. Here is a hint at its location

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

To be clear it is NOT at the Kennedy Center.

Also there is now some food in it that is definitely NOT a power bar.

It’s in Las Vegas?

[lordofthemark]

@sszibler 197591 wrote:

It’s in Las Vegas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0

[Steve O]

@lordofthemark 197560 wrote:

So, somehow I ended up with the Calvinball (proving that you need not seek the Calvinball, if it’s your fate to have it, it will seek you) Some kindly folks told me the kind of thing I need to do with it, sparing me from needing to read the rules.

One of the rules is that you may bestow “assist points” to zero, one, or two other players. So if you indeed feel that these kindly folks assisted you, identify them and they shall be rewarded.

I assume it’s not here, although your first clue might be interpreted thusly.

[CaseyKane50]

@lordofthemark 197560 wrote:

So, somehow I ended up with the Calvinball (proving that you need not seek the Calvinball, if it’s your fate to have it, it will seek you) Some kindly folks told me the kind of thing I need to do with it, sparing me from needing to read the rules.

It is out in the wild again. Here is a hint at its location

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

To be clear it is NOT at the Kennedy Center.

Also there is now some food in it that is definitely NOT a power bar.

I am not participating in this game (The rules are way too fluid for me to keep up)but, I did happen to easily spot the Calvinball, as I was on my way to a meeting today https://www.strava.com/activities/3049079951

[Steve O]

@CaseyKane50 197597 wrote:

I am not participating in this game (The rules are way too fluid for me to keep up)

Um – the rules aren’t that hard:

• Find the Calvinball
• Hide the Calvinball

Everything else is optional

[Pablo]

Found the Calvinball and it has already been dropped off

“Where two loves meet like in 1759”

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[sszibler]

@Pablo 197621 wrote:

Found the Calvinball and it has already been dropped off

“Where two loves meet like in 1759”

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Is the picture where you found it (amazing) and the clue where it is now?

Mt. Vernon? Then what? Hobbs is getting antsy about recent cluology.

[Steve O]

@sszibler 197633 wrote:

Is the picture where you found it (amazing) and the clue where it is now?

The picture is where he found it. The clue is somewhere else I believe.

[sszibler]

@Steve O 197635 wrote:

The picture is where he found it. The clue is somewhere else I believe.

He found a time machine and it’s somewhere in 1759 Mt. Vernon.

[sszibler]

@Steve O 197635 wrote:

The picture is where he found it. The clue is somewhere else I believe.

Maybe it would help if I knew where it was found. Is this piano bench in Virginia or the Minnesota Ave jazz Park near Anacostia Park? The internets aren’t helping me.

[Pablo]

@sszibler 197633 wrote:

Is the picture where you found it (amazing) and the clue where it is now?

Mt. Vernon? Then what? Hobbs is getting antsy about recent cluology.

The picture is where I found it. And the clue is where it is. Is not Mt. Vernon, but that could be a good reference.

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