Bored on a hot
Saturday afternoon? Here's the perfect fix.
Equipment required
- Ceiling fan, turned on at maximum speed
- Sheet of paper, wadded up
- Furniture to be placed in the room
Rules of play
Each player has 3 outs per
inning. The game ends after both teams complete a
number of
innings agreed upon by each other. The object is
obviously to score as many runs as possible before scoring 3 outs each inning. To
put the ball into play, throw the wad of paper up into the
fan and
watch it get hit by the
blades. Below are guidelines for
scoring hits and outs:
-
Ball makes contact with fan and lands on the floor in the area below it
-- foul ball.
- Ball makes contact with fan and lands on the floor outside the area
below the fan -- out
- Ball lands on a large piece of furniture (such as on the seat of a chair
or a couch) -- single
- Ball lands on a smaller piece of furniture or on the top of a chair --
double
- Ball lands on top of a bookshelf or mantle, in the next room, or in a
trash can -- Triple
- Ball lands inside a vase or on top of a small object resting on a shelf
or mantle, or flies out an open window or door -- Homerun
- Your cat sees the ball fly across the room and chases it to where it
lands on the floor -- Fan interference, ground rule double.
It is assumed that all baserunners will advance the number of bases that
the batter hits. For example, a runner on first will advance to third
on a double, and will score on a triple.
source: Cheapass Games, www.cheapass.com
This game is perfect if you have a cat and already
annoyed it enough to that
these ideas no longer work. If you don't have a cat, you can still enjoy watching a paper ball fly across the room and break or knock over
fragile objects. You can always blame your pet if something breaks.