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1-> ''"The only permanent rule in [[TropeNamers Calvinball]] is that you can't play it the same way twice!"''
2-->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
3
4-> ''"I'll invoke [[ThirdPersonPerson Poland]]'s rule! It'll always be my turn!"''
5-->-- '''[[NationsAsPeople Poland]]''' during a game of chess, ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''
6
7-> ''"That's Numberwang!"''
8-->-- '''The host of Numberwang''', frequently, at ''completely random intervals'', ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''
9
10->"Malachi shrugged. He didn't follow human sports. They were too dull and the rules never changed."
11-->-- Malachi's Narration summarizing TheFairFolk's sports in ''[[Literature/QuantumGravity Chasing the Dragon]]''
12
13-> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': Hike Patrick, hike!
14-> ''[Drops rock, which breaks in two, as Patrick blows chess pieces forward on a board]''
15-> '''[=Spongebob=]''': You just lost 3 points!
16-> ''[Climbs up coral]''
17-> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': 1, 2, 5!
18-> ''[Stands on his head and blows a bubble in the shape of "G7"]''
19-> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': G7!
20-> '''Patrick''': G7?! King me, king me!
21-> ''[Runs and smashes into coral; [=SpongeBob=]'s bubble kit lands in his hand]''
22-> '''Patrick''': ''[triumphantly]'' I lose!
23-> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': But it's not Tuesday, Patrick!
24-> '''Patrick''': Tartar sauce!
25-> '''Squidward''': What are you two [[HypocriticalHumor invertebrates]] doing?!
26-> ''[{{Beat}}]''
27-> '''[=SpongeBob=] and Patrick''': We don't know.
28-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E11 Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost]]"
29
30-> ''"Could someone please tell me what we are supposed to be doing? What's the point? This entire game is completely random! It jumps from one thing to another, I don't know how you are supposed to win, and Patrick seems to be making up the rules as he goes along!"''
31-->-- '''Squidward''' on Patrick's game, ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
32
33->'''Humph''': Fingers on buzzers, teams. How many legs have donkeys?
34->'''Tim''' [''buzzing'']: Four!
35->'''Humph''': Tim says four. Barry and Graeme?
36->'''Barry and Graeme''': Higher, higher, no, I think it's lower. Lower.
37->'''Humph''': You say lower? Well, the right answer is no legs have donkeys. So, you were right to go lower. And Tim gets ten points. Tim, question or nominate?
38->'''Tim''': Nominate Graeme!
39->'''Humph''': No, the correct answer is "nominate Barry". You lose ten points. Barry, what's the first letter of the word "aardvark": A, B, C or D?
40->'''Barry''': Can I go 50-50, Humph?
41->'''Humph''': Very well. Computer, take away one wrong answer and one right answer. Barry, you have two wrong answers left. Which do you go for?
42-->-- "The Quiz of Quizzes", ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue''
43
44->''"Other kids' games are such a bore!\
45They gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!\
46Calvinball is better by far!\
47It's never the same! It's always bizarre!\
48You never need a team or a referee!\
49You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!"''
50-->-- ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
51
52->'''Twilight''': What's Blernsball?\
53'''[[Series/RetroGameMaster Arino]]''': It's baseball, but they jazzed up a lot.\
54'''Twilight''': Ah baseball. I love complicated games!\
55'''[[VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} Maxwell]]''': Oooh! I love it when they bend the rules! At least it's more fun than the Giant Ape Fights, that just sounds boring.
56-->-- ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars''
57
58->'''Jim:''' All right. So each player gets six cards, except the one on the player's right, who gets seven. The second card is turned up, except on Tuesdays.\
59'''Sulu:''' Is today Tuesday?\
60'''Scotty:''' It's got to be Tuesday ''[[UniversalUniverseTime somewhere]]'', Mr. Sulu.\
61'''Jim:''' Stipulated. Now, two jacks is a half-fizzbin, but you don't want three. Three is a shralk. You get those, you get disqualified.\
62'''Ael:''' You do?\
63'''Jim:''' Absolutely. Now look there: Sulu's got two jacks. That's good. Now he wants a king and a deuce.\
64'''[=McCoy=]:''' Except at night. In which case he wants a king and an ace.\
65'''tr'Keirianh:''' How is "night" determined? If playing aboard ship, does ship's time prevail? Or is it always determined to be night in space?\
66'''Jim:''' Only in leap year.\
67'''Sulu:''' When the moon is full.\
68'''K's't'lk:''' Now wait a minute. ''Whose'' moon?\
69'''Ael:''' And why should a year leap?\
70''(reportedly goes on for two more hours)''
71-->-- A game of fizzbin, ''Franchise/{{Star Trek|ExpandedUniverse}}: Literature/{{Rihannsu}} -- The Empty Chair''
72
73->''" No, Ozy, "House Rules Parcheesi" is absolutely nothing like "Calvinball." Now, you have seven blorms, and you have to move your roll of duct tape around the giant ceramic hippo."''
74-->-- '''Isolde''', ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie''
75
76->''Once the gong is rung, the offensive team serves the pom-pom and advances down the field. The defending cyclists race past the tackling dummies and try to get into scoring position. If they manage to return the pom-pom into one of the scoring locations, they will be awarded a chance to chase the jumbo riding ball past the midfield skiing defender, while the other team tries to hit as many tennis balls as they can using golf clubs. I don't know why this guy has a canoe paddle.''
77-->-- '''"Playing a Game of Sports"''' - ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
78
79->'''Future Ted:''' ''[narrating]'' Now, I had been to a lot of casinos before that night, and I've been to a lot of casinos since, but in all that time I've never seen a game quite like this one. To this day, I have no idea how it was played. But luckily, Barney did.\
80'''Lily:''' Do you understand what's happening?\
81'''Ted:''' Not a clue.\
82'''Robin:''' Do you think he's winning?\
83'''Ted:''' I don't even know if he's playing.\
84'''Marshall:''' Wait, I get it, I understand this game.\
85'''Ted:''' ...no you don't.\
86'''Marshall:''' I totally understand the game, Theodore! Barney, split your tiles. You can triple your money if you find the jellybean.\
87'''Barney:''' Marshal, please. Don't you think I know what I'm-- ''[glances over the board]'' My God, you're ''right''!
88-->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' season 2 episode 8 "Atlantic City," regarding a game of "Shing Hasabu Shing"
89
90->'''Steelbeak''': ''[laying down two circle cards]'' Go fish.\
91'''Launchpad''': ''[laying down two hearts]'' Old maid.\
92'''Steelbeak''': Uhh... ''[plays a double diamond card]'' Crazy eights.\
93''[Suspense {{Beat}}]''\
94'''Launchpad''': ''[laying down entire hand]'' Checkmate.\
95'''Steelbeak''': ''[throws his cards in frustration]'' Well played.\
96'''Dewey''': It was?!
97-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Steelbeak and Launchpad are playing Baccarat.
98
99->...it was [Creator/HGWells and I] who invented the well-known and widespread national game of Gype. All sorts of variations and complications were invented in connection with Gype. There was Land Gype and Water Gype. I myself cut out and coloured pieces of cardboard of mysterious and significant shapes, the instruments of Table Gype; a game for the little ones. It was even duly settled what disease threatened the over-assiduous player; he tended to suffer from Gype's Ear. My friends and I introduced allusions to the fashionable sport in our articles; Bentley successfully passed one through the Daily News and I through some other paper. Everything was in order and going forward; except the game itself, which has not yet been invented.
100-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton''' describes a "standing joke" in his social circle, ''Autobiography''
101
102->'''Baljeet:''' If I miss the third shuttlecock with my rubber chicken, does Buford have to jump over the chokecherry bush before or after the girls finish peeling their tangerines?\
103'''Buford, Candace, and Isabella:''' ''After!''
104-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Got Game?"
105
106->''Man, I've been watching this game for about an hour and I still don't get it. Go team!''
107-->-- '''Man''', referring to "Critterball", ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', "Critterball Crisis"
108
109->'''Angel Dust:''' Go fish.\
110'''Sir Pentious:''' No wait, I have the TabletopGame/{{Uno}} card, that makes me ''immune!''\
111'''Angel Dust:''' That's only in the first round, dummy!\
112'''Sir Pentious:''' Not if your birthday is in April!\
113'''Husk:''' This game is an abomination.
114-->-- ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' [[https://www.tumblr.com/greykolla-art/743886214991577088/imagine-spending-all-your-energy-being-cool-and fan comic]] by greykolla-art

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