DON’T BOTHER ME – UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE KILLED! (Yea – Don’t bother gunslinger! He’s having an affair with that regulator girl Delilah 
, Regulators, RegulatorsReincarnated.
or whatever her name is. Yes, he spanked her for some shit, but that’s over. Shortly after Barky [the regulator pooch] disappeared, Delia swam in to Ducie Island where gunslinger is marooned, with no clothes on. She was absolutely nude except for the stars and stripes she was draped in. What else is there to do on Ducie? Watch whales? Count stars? Tend killer bees? There was not even anyone else there to play Pachesi with – they found a way – of course. [Everyone wants to play Pachesi.] NOT MUCH ELSE TO DO FOLKS. Gunslinger and that Regulator woman managed to put a couple of new stars on ‘ole glory’! Yup – American Samoa and the Virgin Islands will become states before gunslinger gets out of his jam. Besides the point DELIA (her name is Delia, gunslinger) will probably be able to help Gunslinger. Right now – LEAVE GUNSLINGER ALONE – IF YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU!)
BTW, Gunslinger is not a christian. If you want to pray for someone, you might as well pray for Donald Duck, or Obie-wan-kenobi.Gunslinger is a fictional character! Or – you can pray for someone REAL – like Annabel Chong Annabel Chong
Annabella Chong,http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/29/annabelchong.html whose life was ruined by some careless selfish f’s who coerced her into porn for their own benefit. Or, pray for some homeless guy.
BELOW ARE SOME FUN GAMES INCLUDING PACHESI.
Sorry, the Knight has ridden into the sunset.
Games and Contests
This is a brief listing of games and contests which have been run at events. Some information has been taken from postings on the Rialto and includes full credit to the gentle who posted the information with a link to their e-mail address to get more info on the topic. If you have a game or activity you would like to include on this list, please e-mail me with the information or with a web address to which to link.
Non-Fighting– Fighting and Fighting Related– For Children or Young Adults– Additional information
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Non-Fighting:
Greased Pig – The pig has swallowed the family’s jewels! Help us get them back! Big rewards for returned jewels! Get a pinata that resembles a pig, lots of sandwich bags, and a half dozen different colored stones (one for each prize) to represent the jewels. Cook up spaghetti and use food coloring or sauce to make it pink or red. Cook up oatmeal. (Use your imagination! This is supposed to be the innards of a pig after all! 
Let all food cool and stuff into the sandwich bags along with the stones (one per bag). Stuff the bags into the pinata until its full. Close up the pinata. (Yet another use for duct tape!) Place the pig into the center of a field or pig pen and have the participants arrange themselves in a circle. A marshal will call “lay on” or other appropriate phrase and stand well clear. The participants destroy the pig searching for the stones. Stones must be returned to the judge who should stand well clear of the pig pen. Stones may be captured, lost, etc., on their way to the judge. Advertise this as a very messy game and suggest participants bring old garb to wear during the game. Access to showers or at least running water is also a nice feature!
Hammer Throw – Throw a 10 – 14 pound hammer for distance!
Axe / Spear / Knife Throwing – Set up an appropriate target such as stacked bales of hay, tree stumps, etc. Weapons are thrown for accuracy.
Hunkerhausen – Tug of War for two. Participants stand on stumps, blocks, or over turned cast iron pots and attempt to pull their opponent off their stump. For added amusement, this can be done over a mud or dust pit. Advertise this as a very messy game and suggest participants bring old garb to wear during the game. Access to showers is also a nice feature!
Match Lighting – Set up an old tree stump or large block of wood and wedge wooden kitchen matches into cracks in the top. Contestants use a short sword and strike at the head of the match to light it. Requires lots of matches. Don’t use your best blade for this one. Be prepared to clean, polish and sharpen numerous marks out of your blade.
Skadi’s Stitches – Bring material, scissors, needle and thread and teams of up to five people. You’ll be sewing Viking garb for one member of your team throughout the day. The garb should be worn at the evening feast. Be prepared for hand sewing because the Vikings didn’t have portable sewing machines!
Ragnar’s Rags – Wear your best, most authentic Viking/Norse clothing. The best and most authentic will receive a really neat prize.
Most Comely Limb – Put forth your best limb to be judged by a panel of judges. Among the former winners are a wonderful bald head and a well turned ankle.
Hand Kissing – Decadent, elegant, romantic, chivalric, or totally absurd. Let a panel of judges determine who’s the best at hand-kissing.
Sheep Making – Ask participants to craft 5 sheep. Limits may be placed on materials used, weight, etc. The sheep may be crafted on site or brought to the event already completed. The best, most unusual, or whatever win a nifty prize.
Sheep Stealing – Used in conjunction with Sheep Making. The sheep must be liberated from their owners only by people who have officially entered the game. The sheep must be available to be stolen at all times. No locking them in a car, trunk, or a tent. They can be chained up. The person/team with the most sheep at the end of the game wins. All sheep must be returned to their rightful owners at the end of the game.
Raquetball / Tennis – National Geographic, June, 1996, mentions raquetball was banned in the 14th century because the monks were spending too much time playing and not enough praying. They have a section noting the Olympics and running through a brief timeline of organized sporting events from Ancient to more recent. In period, these were not played as modern raquetball and tennis are played. There appear to have been fewer rules than we currently have.
Lawn Bowling / Bowls / Bocci – “Bowls, or lawn bowls (referred to by Master “beat her to the punch” Giles 
) has prehistoric orgin and was played in various forms by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, who brought their version, boccie, to northern Europe. The game was popular in 12th century England. Objects, from a game similar to bowls, (bowling) dating from 5200 BC were found in an Eqyptian tomb. During the 3rd and 4th centuries in Europe, bowling was a religious ceremony where players tried to hit the pin, in order to be deemed free of sin. The game of ninepins was carried to America by Dutch colonists in the 17th century.” —– Exerpted from a message on the Caid List dated June 24, 1996, by Christy
Croquet- “My info shows that croquet is thought to have originated in 17th century France where it was known as “jeu de le maillet”, later to be know as “pall-mall” in England. The modern form of the game orginated in England around 1857.” —– Exerpted from a message on the Caid List dated June 24, 1996, by Christy
Skittles- “Skittles, a bowling game, (2-20 players) played with wooden pins and a rubber or wooden ball or disc of hard wood derived from the French game “quilles” was in England by the 13th or 14th century. .” —– Exerpted from a message on the Caid List dated June 24, 1996, by Christy
Backgammon – This was also banned in early english history reportedly because the monks spent too much time playing it.
Hurling- “A wonderful period game, still played today is Hurling ,best described as a form of field hockey, though it is to field hockey what ice hockey is to shuffleboard.Here in New Zealand it is organised by local Irish Societies and I understand there are local leagues in various of your east coast cities. It can be a little hazardous particularly for new players (junior players must wear helmets) but since a lrge number of SCAers have access to protective gear itwould make an excellent game for war points,therebeing no need to limit numbers and if players are in armour a few of the rulles could be waived. Tradition has it that it was used as a war substitute inperiod Ireland. Cheers.” —– Exerpted from a message on the Caid List dated June 24, 1996, by Callum
Bowling for Peers- Purely an SCA invention. “Ah, but Cameron WAS the inventor of “bowling for Peers”. It first occurred at a Crown Tourney in Darach if I recall correctly, when Edward & Ilaria were King and Queen, and Avery won the list. Cameron had an ample supply of very large oranges which he didn’t seem to want much, and was bowling for peers all day.” —– Exerpted from a message on the Caid List dated June 25, 1996, by Tetchubah
Pachesi- “Parchesi is the modern American version. There was a Moghul Rajah in India during the 16th Century who had a giant board built in one of the palaces gardens. As playing pieces, he used harem girls dressed in red, blue, green and yellow saris. But there was no combat involved. … It is a race game. Each player has four game pieces, and through rolls of the dice (or cowrie shells in period) you move your pieces around the course. If you land on a square that is occupied by one of your opponents you send your opponent back to the beginning to start all over again. The first person who takes all his/her pieces “home” wins. In the modern version you get bonus moves for sending your opponents back and for landing each piece on the home square. However, these rules are not in the period version. … You can pick up the game cheaply (under $8.00) at any good toystore, especially Toys-R-Us. But the modern version game board is not exactly like the period version. The period version has fewer squares and fewer safeties. You can get a period-style game board for pachesi from the catalog company, The Wide World of Games, for about $35.00 or so that comes with glass game pieces and cowrie shells instead of dice.” —– Exerpted from messages on the Caid List dated June 24 & 25, 1996, by Mistress Huette
Chess / Live Chess – See Fighting Games for more information. This could be made non-combatant ready by having the opposing pieces answer trivia or historical questions rather than battling it out with weapons. It probably wouldn’t run any faster, but it would give non-combatants an opportunity to play. Perhaps it could even be incorporated with a costume theme. Choose teams and pieces before hand and let the chess pieces dress to fit their roles.
Brandub – “…is a game for 2 players. It is played on a board comprised of 49 alternating white and black squares arranged in seven parallel rows of seven. The center square is “black” and called “Tara” or “Home”. Pieces are different coloured stones or objects as described below. One player has eight pieces which are placed on the white squares on the edge of the board nearest the corners. These pieces are called “Barons” and move first. The other player has five pieces: four “Princes” and one “King”. These pieces are arranged in an “X” radiating from the central or “Tara” square. The “King” is always placed on “Tara” Players move any of their peices one square in any direction. If a piece, other than the King, chooses to move diagonally on the white squares, then it may move two squares at a time. Only the King may enter Tara. The object of the game is for the Barons to capture all the Princes or for the King and the Princes to capture all the Barons. Capture is effected by moving into the same square as an opposing piece. You cannot jump over another piece (either friend or foe) to effect any movement. The King cannot be captured but may capture other pieces. Finally, no Prince may remain in a corner square for more than three turns. These rules are from a copy of the game I purchased years ago from a company called “Godiva Productions” out of Louisville, KY. The crafter was a William Levy.” —– Exerpted from a message on the SCA-Arts mail list dated May 13, 1997, by Cathal.
Thanks to the numerous posters on the Caid List and the SCA-Arts List for more info on non-fighting games both period and non-period.
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