Inspired by Raymond Queneau’s 100 Thousands Billion Poems, Andrew McKenzie’s site Ten Million Sports randomly combines elements from football, polo, water polo, lacrosse, ice hockey, table tennis, basketball, rugby, the Kirkwall ba’ and beach volleyball … to generate new sports.
Here is one randomly generated sport (ice skates + ping-pong in Kirkwall).
Duration: 60 minutes, 3 periods of twenty minutes each.
Playing area: The town of Kirkwall in Orkney, Scotland.
Objective: To score more goals than the other side. The goals, located at both ends, are 3m wide x 0.9m high.
Players per side: 5
Attire: A helmet combo, shoulder pads, trousers, shirts, elbow pads, gloves, shin guards and ice-skates.
Ball: A polo ball: spherical, high compact plastic. Circumference: 23-27cm. Weight: 120-135g.
Method of play: The ball may only be hit with a ping-pong paddle.
This is a pretty great idea – could be interesting to try out in actuality if you managed to have all the equipment available. (We may have to renege on Kirkwall, Scotland.)
(Via Nick Montfort.)
Oh my, this one would be hilarious too: Hitting baskets on a huge grass field with ping-pong paddles and a lacrosse ball.
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