Hunt the Wocket is a sport invented by a boy of 13 named Owen Albert Richardson (ala moi,) living in Canada, B.C., vancover island, Cobble hill, in the year 2000.It is a very fun game with simple rules and eqipment.
Hunt the Wocket
Intro:
The first official rules ever writen down for Hunt the Wocket were created sometime around midnight (not that that matters). The actual game was inspired by a fleeting mention of its name in the book by Douglas Adams called "Mostly Harmless". Below is the object of the game, descrpition of eqipment, game play and anything else that I think of half way through writing it.
Eqipment:
Wocket - The Wocket was first described as a beach ball covered in duct tape and then having fake fur glue-gunned onto it. I have no idea how to get the fake fur on though. I also think that some leather strings with little red beads and goose feathers attached to them would look good too. However, these are completely unrealistic ideas and if you find out how to do any of them contact me immediately. Essentially the Wocket is the ball.
The Wocket Wacker - First described as a crocket mallet or something
similar. Many different kinds of Wackers have been made. The first
ones were made with a wicket for a handle and a block of wood for a
head. Since then, garden planters measuring three feet and having a
slightly pointed head have been improvised. Most of these designs
came about because of the absence of a crocket set. It considered
very professional to make your own Wacker even though it is
immensely simple. Totally outrageously silly ideas which have
no hope of working are not accepted as Wackers.
The Wocket Wickets - The Wocket Wickets were first described as
forty pieces of thin metre long wood. Twenty green, twenty red. This description is totally weirded because the Wickets turned out to be only one and half feet long and it is not necessary to completely cover each Wicket in paint. A simple winding of coloured electrical tape around the top is far less resource consuming. Not to mention it takes way less time to do.
Safety Eqipment-Shin pads... shin pads would definatly be a good thing. (Perhaps some steel toed boots too.)Knee pads, elbow pads, some sort of lacross gloves methinks a hemlet of some kind. I can't really say for sure after all the game hasn't been around for long enoufe to know all that stuff.
Game Set Up:
The players are divided into two teams. A red team and a green team. Each team takes twenty wickets of the same the colour as
their team and pounds them into the field more or less randomly.
They must make sure that the wickets of both colours are mixed up
and not too close together. The wickets must not be hit into the ground too far or else they will not "knock" easily. When this
is done each team goes to the opposite side of the field.
Someone places the ball in the center and...
Game Play:
The someone (officially recognized as "the official referee thingy or
something like that") yells "Go!" or "Start!" or "Rumplestiltskin!" or
anything else that comes to mind, very loudly. Both teams rush at the ball. The red team is trying to hit the wocket with their wackers so that it hits the green teams' wickets and the green team is trying to hit the wocket into the red wickets. The first team to knock all the other teams' wickets is considered to have "officially Hunted the Wocket or something like that". Everyone celebrates. This was done because its much harder to yell "We officially Hunted the Wocket or something like that" multiple times, than saying,
"We won, we won!" which keeps gloating, which may result in bad spirits, kept to a minimum.
The Official Rule List:
Below is a copy of the Official Rule List. The order of the rules does not have anything to do with their importance. That just happens to be the order in which I thought of them. Since Hunt the Wocket is a relatively new game, rules should be made as problems occur. If you want to make a new rule, please write to me immediately and I might have it authorized.
1) When guarding a wicket, a player may not stand in front
of it*. Instead the player must stand to the side and place
their wacker in front of the wicket. Thus the players must
be very careful to rotate around the wicket in relation to
where the ball is. If a player repeatedly does not comply
with this rule, especially if he/she is doing it delibrately,
they risk suspension from the game.
2) A time out will be called if a teams' wickets are
hammered into the ground so deeply that the only way to
knock them down is by pressing the wocket against the
wicket with the wacker with intense pressure. The time out
will be used to remedy this problem.
3) The game will not be called on account of time
restrictions or weather conditions (to a reasonable point-
if there is a tornado, you may quit). However the game
may be called on account of cheapness, such as when all the
players except for one on one team, have left.
4) Waddles (large groups of players clustered around one
wicket) are not allowed and not sensible. As, first, these
often result with everyone trying to smash the ball into the
ground and secondly, they are very boring. Anyway, there is
not much chance of any team hitting down that wicket. If
you get into a waddle, the easiest way of getting the ball out
of it, is to hit it backwards between your legs.
5) Hitting somone with your wacker is not a leagal move!
6) Knocking a wicket with a wacker is not allowed.
7) Lofting,(fliping the ball up into the air with your wacker)
and interbunking**,(hiting the ball througe the air after
it's been lofted) are perfectly leagal.
*sort of like LBW in cricket.
**for lack of a better name.
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