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Meanwhile, at The Mary Sue, our sister site tries — and tries valiantly! — to explain the actual rules to 10 of the most inexplicable games from sci-fi, comics, and assorted geek entertainment. Considering that the creators don’t always seem to entirely know what’s going on, it’s no easy feat.
The rules of Calvinball are whatever the players declare them to be, at any point in the game. The primary and only permanent rule of Calvinball is that once you’ve played a certain way, you can never play that way again.
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