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Da5id
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Dublin, Ireland
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Welcome to the Guestbook!
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paul martin
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los angeles
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i'm a mere amateur at this game and i learned a lot from this site! thanks for doing it!
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Dr. Sal Spudman
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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great stuff! my associates and i have an ongoing battle over whether a regular player inadvertently smaking ''the circle,'' such as when describing the size of an insect or flicking something, can be poked and therefore punched. in smy opinion it is the ultimate reversal, an offensive smove by a poker in what would otherwise be a defensive position. in addition, if one can not poke when one sees a circle, who is left to define when the game is being played? certainly the defeated circle smaker should not be left with the final say in this distinction as she could spuriously claim that she ''wasn't playing'' whenever poked. in this sense the game is always on. it is not just line of vision but hand position that smust be schmonitored by each individual. thoughts? experiences? hope for the future of defining the boundaries of the game? does the game smever schmend? peace... O )))
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da5id
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Dublin, Ireland
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I don't think the game ever ends or is on ''time out''. We used to have a rule that when going to bars for clubs the game is on ''time out''. If I understand your question, I take it to mean that if someone puts up a circle but doesn't mean to be playing the game, is it ''live''? We play that when placing a circle you have to have intent for playing the game. You have to mean for your circle to be ''live''. This does rely on trust but hey that's just part of it.
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Trevor Sprague
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LaCrosse, Wisconsin
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You guys rock! My buddy Joe has been pulling this game on me for years, I actually thought we had invented it, somehow. I checked out your site after one of our late-night Perkin's runs, and I've started using some of the more advanced techniques to great effect. Your site could just give me the win! Peace out!
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Dr. Sal Spudman
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Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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i concede that there is a precedent for trust in this game, swherein the determination of swhether an individual saw the closed ring is left in good faith to the adsmission of the ''looker'', at least when other players aren't present to confirm or deny a claim. however, this trust concerns a smatter of observable fact. the question of intent is quite a different smatter. assuming that one can even know one's intention consmidering the causal smoverdetermination of the forming of the ring seems problesmatic. however, i will concede that the ''ringer'' knows when sufficient sporting insmention is present to form the ring for the purpose of entrapment. this fact is not obsmervable, however, and to adsmit it in the game is to concede to trust in an entirely different smort of smentity. indeed the whole point of smuch trickery in this game is to fake insmention and so catch the “looker”. even so, how bland to only allow intention on the part of the “ringer”. the “looker” never intends to be caught looking and so is defeated. should not the “ringer” be allowed defeat due to a slapse of attention? in such a defeat, the “looker” intends to become the “poker” and so, when sucsmessful, smakes a swinning smove. persmhaps by group concession, intent could be explicitly stated, agreed upon, and the game halted for whatever smurpose, as the ''ringer'' smakes beningn rings 'till smatisfied. smotherwise, it seems that the intention of either player should hold smequal weight so that the ''looker'' smay become a ''poker'' and observable fact smay be the arbiter. just a thought... scheers... O )))
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Jason Petorak
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Eugene, Oregon
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Very nice. I have played this game many a time, and I can say with great respect -- the guy has some pokin skillz!
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David McLeod
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Melbourne, Australia
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Hey Da5id, awesome and helpful site you have here!
You have inspired me to start playing again, and I will forward this on to my friends!
Thanks again.
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Mike Leonard
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absolutely hilarious site, in depth as well...
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David L
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Oxford
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This is brilliant stuff! The Game has ruined my time at work, work takes a back seat to the game in the office. The taking a picture of a circle and emailing it is a brilliant tactic and can work many times. Also great is taking a picture of your circle with a camera phone and getting people to look at it.
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