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]

@secstate 196032 wrote:

Drat! Foiled?

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I hope somebody got it. That looks like the spot. 😢

[CBGanimal]

@sszibler 196026 wrote:

Here is the clue as a haiku:

Near Fisherman’s Cove
Four Mile Run and Flooding
Delectable stench!

CalvinBall #2 acquired!

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[Steve O]

Dang! See you at Starbucks

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[secstate]

@sszibler 196053 wrote:

I hope somebody got it. That looks like the spot. 😢

Well I got some surprisingly spirited Monday night karaoke out of it!

If Calvinball #1 does not reappear within 24 hours, I will activate a new Calvinball!

[CBGanimal]

Selfie!

New contents!

Calvin Ball will be in the wild before the snow storm!

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[mrhappy_onabike]

@CBGanimal 196084 wrote:

Selfie!

I’m holding the Calvinball!!!

[CBGanimal]

Want a Beer! Get the Calvin Ball #2 at the same time!

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[SarahBee]

@CBGanimal 196090 wrote:

Want a Beer! Get the Calvin Ball #2 at the same time!

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As an FYI, Mad Fox Brewing is permanently closed, so you can’t get a beer there anymore unless the Calvinball has a beer inside it?

[CBGanimal]

@SarahBee 196093 wrote:

As an FYI, Mad Fox Brewing is permanently closed, so you can’t get a beer there anymore unless the Calvinball has a beer inside it?

Oops…well no beer but there is a bottle of vodka for making cosmos! [emoji847]

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[sszibler]

@CBGanimal 196084 wrote:

Selfie!

New contents!

Calvin Ball will be in the wild before the snow storm!

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The Zum Bar smells so much better than chlorine or whatever! Wash the delectable stench off!

[CBGanimal]

@sszibler 196096 wrote:

The Zum Bar smells so much better than chlorine or whatever! Wash the delectable stench off!

I kept it!!!

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[sszibler]

@secstate 196077 wrote:

Well I got some surprisingly spirited Monday night karaoke out of it!

If Calvinball #1 does not reappear within 24 hours, I will activate a new Calvinball!

This frustrates the idiosyncrasies of interdimensional travel and transmogrification, and saddens Hobbs and I greatly. There were some very nice socks and other very useful things in there. Sigh.

I did hear back from the first place I tried and they are happy to host in the future, so that’s good!

I’ll possibly stop by tonight after the snow to doublecheck Dew Drop.

You asked around a bit? Did anyone remember it?

[sszibler]

I’m still a little stuck in a format that’s advanced that I thought I got out of, but is still there when I sign in. I can get out to “like” things and post pictures by clicking on “full site” at the bottom of the page. Does anyone know how to get out of that mode in settings permanently since it doesn’t seem to work?

BTW, there are some kinds of capricious gods in the forum. I believe my status went from “elite” to “amusingly cute” (or something like that), back to boring “regular member/standard member” (or whatever, I can’t see it now). 😳

[secstate]

@sszibler 196099 wrote:

I’ll possibly stop by tonight after the snow to doublecheck Dew Drop.

You asked around a bit? Did anyone remember it?

I got there shortly after 8:30 and stayed later than was wise for a Monday night, drinking Old Overholt and soda. My Apple Watch measured the karaoke at 95 dB from my perch at the bar. I was glad to have my music earplugs. I carefully searched the area you photographed and also asked Sam, the bartender, who was bemused (and is incidentally quite good at karaoke) but knew nothing.

If you find it please assign me demerits.

[SarahBee]

Calvinball acquires!

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