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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Topic

[Pablo]

@sszibler 197639 wrote:

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.

This is the Piano bench on 4 mile run.

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[arlcxrider]

The piano bench by the poop-plant “art fence.”

[drevil]

If it’s still there, I think it’s where the red arrows are pointing in the attached screenshot.

Hopefully it is, or else someone is not playing by this rule: sszibler must get the Calvinball every other time

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[Pablo]

@drevil 197662 wrote:

If it’s still there, I think it’s where the red arrows are pointing in the attached screenshot.

Hopefully it is, or else someone is not playing by this rule: sszibler must get the Calvinball every other time

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The Calvinball is somewhere else. I wasn’t aware of such rule. It is not on this year’s rules.

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[Steve O]

@drevil 197662 wrote:

If it’s still there, I think it’s where the red arrows are pointing in the attached screenshot.

Not still there. Pablo found it.

What made this harder is that the official name of this public art is Ripple. The bench is part of the larger installation, which includes the fence. That’s why it is impossible to find on the Interwebs. Even I, a musician and piano tuner, have not thought of this as a piano bench in the past, so the clues were pretty obscure (unless you had the inside scoop on a private conversation, or so goes the rumor).

[Pablo]

I check on the Calvinball on my way to work today. It’s still where I left it.

To make things easier, my clue refers to a crossing of two trails, both trails include names of a couple that got married in 1759.

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[lordofthemark]

@Steve O 197670 wrote:

Not still there. Pablo found it.

What made this harder is that the official name of this public art is Ripple. The bench is part of the larger installation, which includes the fence. That’s why it is impossible to find on the Interwebs. Even I, a musician and piano tuner, have not thought of this as a piano bench in the past, so the clues were pretty obscure (unless you had the inside scoop on a private conversation, or so goes the rumor).

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[sszibler]

@Pablo 197673 wrote:

I check on the Calvinball on my way to work today. It’s still where I left it.

To make things easier, my clue refers to a crossing of two trails, both trails include names of a couple that

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If it’s where I’m thinking it could refer to her children’s name rather than her maiden name?

[Pablo]

@sszibler 197681 wrote:

If it’s where I’m thinking it could refer to her children’s name rather than her maiden name?

It is her first marriage last name. And his last name is the first word on the other trail.

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[arlcxrider]

Maiden name = Dandridge. First husband’s name = Custis.

[Pablo]

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[sszibler]

@Pablo 197686 wrote:

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Yeah, I figured it out a few posts ago. The question is whether I’ll be too late! Lol!

[sszibler]

@sszibler 197687 wrote:

Yeah, I figured it out a few posts ago. The question is whether I’ll be too late! Lol!

Rats!

[sszibler]

????

[CBGanimal]

So we lost it again! Sigh!

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