THE COIN IS THE RULEBOOK!!
official & complete rules for the game we play behind the rec center, as decided in the air, one flip at a time!!!
OKAY so here is the thing and I need you to understand this before you scroll one more inch: nobody wrote these rules down first. There was no meeting!! There was no guy with a clipboard!! There was a coin, and there were eight of us, and there was a question, and the coin went UP and it came DOWN and that was that FOREVER!!!
That is still how it works!! You have a question about the game? GREAT!! Flip for it!! The coin is the only referee we have ever had and honestly the only one we have ever needed and it has never once been wrong, which I admit is easy for a coin, but STILL!!
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These came down YEARS ago and they came down HARD and we are not litigating them in 1999!!
- Eight players!! Nine if the ninth one is quiet about it.
- The grass must have been mowed twice and both times recently. Once-mowed grass is a totally different game and we do not know its rules.
- There is a heavy ball and a light ball. Only one of them is in play at a time and it is never the one you think.
- The far pole is the pole. The near pole is a pole. HUGE difference!!
- After sunset the heavy ball may not touch a hand. Elbows, knees, foreheads, jackets: all fine!! Hands: NO!!
- The dead patch in the northeast corner is worth double and everybody knows why and nobody says why.
- We do not have a name for the game. That's rule zero and rule zero has never been flipped.
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Here is a question the game has genuinely never resolved. Flip it and it is resolved. That's not a joke, that's just how the game works, and now you're part of it, WELCOME!!!
Heads is the blue side. Tails is the pink side. There is no other side. We checked in 1994 with a flashlight.
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Got a dispute the list doesn't cover?? Type it in!! Phrase it so YES or NO both make sense!! The coin loves a clean yes/no and gets sulky with essay questions!!
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Nothing yet!! Go flip something!! An empty rulebook is a legal game but a BORING one!!
Your rulebook lives in this browser and nowhere else. Two people reading this page can be playing two completely different and equally official games. That happens all the time out there!! Usually we notice around the second half!!
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If the coin rules against you, you say "okay!" and you mean it. That's the whole code of conduct. We have never needed a longer one and Marisol says if we ever write a longer one she's taking the heavy ball home.
Snacks are whatever's in the machine by the side door that still takes the old quarters. The pretzels are the correct snack. The coin confirmed this in August and honestly it did not need to, we all knew.
1999
Okay. So. At midnight on December 31 every rule we have ever flipped goes back in the air. That's not a new policy!! That's always been the deal!! It's just that this time the number on the front of the year changes ALL FOUR DIGITS and Dev says that means something and Marisol says it doesn't and I say WHO KNOWS, THAT'S THE POINT, THAT'S THE WHOLE ENTIRE POINT OF HAVING A COIN!!
We are meeting at the field at 11:40pm with three flashlights, a thermos, and the coin. We will re-flip everything in order. Bring a jacket, bring a pen, bring a question you've been sitting on. If the field is dark and the year is new and the heavy ball can't touch a hand anyway, we'll play with the light one, and it'll be the best game any of us have ever had, and in the morning nobody will be able to prove it.
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