The worst idea I've ever heard (and I want to play)

[azurelunatic]

In the dollar bins at the local Target, in with the flashing jelly bracelets and the blinkety whistles and the temporary tattoos and the glow sticks -- all the raver gear, in other words -- I found something unique.

Hard rubber balls, with LED centers that light up and go blinkety when they whack into something solid after they're thrown.

Hardcore Mac Hall fans will know where this is leading.

Australian Indoor-Rules Quidditch!

Now I just need a team, a field, and some "broomsticks"... I wonder if anyone at work would be up for a game after-hours? Probably Cute Geek Super and the usual suspects. I should share the comic with them.

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Rules

[azurelunatic]

(from the news post at the follow-up comic: http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=126)

Quiddich rules


A strangely high number of people have asked me for the rules to Australian Indoor-Rules Quiddich, so here they are.

Australian Indoor-rules Quiddich is played with a dark hallway and a hard rubber ball. The best kind is a rubber ball with a solid core and an LED in the center that lights up on impact. Sometimes they give them away at trade shows or conventions as a promotional freebie. The hallway should be as close to pitch-black as you can get it.

Throw the ball at each other as hard as you can. That's it. You are free to defend yourself in any way that doesn't make you look like a cringing wuss. Use of bats is not encouraged, but they can be used for defense as a house rule.

No score is kept and there is no clear way to win. Play continues until you stop.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Personally I think the game would be more fun if you had a continually blinky ball, or a ball that blinked, not frequent flash, but at least *steadily* on its *own*, not when HIT. Or not just when hit, ya know? 'Cause at least then you'd have something to aim at.

But then I guess that would be American Indoor-Rules Quidditch.

[azurelunatic]

A full glow-in-the-dark ball? Those are fun.