Rules:
The goal of these tasks are to break up the monotony of everyday life, inspire appreciation of the mundane, push players out of self imposed comfort zones, encourage learning and creative thinking, and/or interacting with reality in a unique way.
This is hugely inspired by the now defunct sf0.org, and many tasks have been lifted from the site wholesale. Other inspirations include Fluxus handbook and other Fluxus projects, Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit, miscellaneous poems and anecdotes, solo-games, Domino Club, Wreck this Journal, and open mic nights. This game is evolving, as such more inspiration will be added eventually.
By doing tasks, players earn points. There is no limit to points nor any incentives to earn them, although players are free to celebrate, deify, avoid, reset at, use as currency, trade, gift, and any other miscellaneous actions not imagined any particular number of points or points itself.
Players may set up “levels” in which points are able to be earned towards. Since there is no standardization, for differentiation players can refer to their level as X-level, replacing X with the player’s name, favorite word, or any other character(s), scribble(s), or symbol(s).
Players are free to add, remove, reinvent, return to, and ignore rules (including this one). Any of the previous actions make up a player’s “personal code.” Players are not allowed to earn points without doing tasks, unless the player is ignoring this rule or added a task that they have fulfilled in retrospect.
Players are free to create, change, add onto, subtract from, combine, or any other action any particular task. Remember to scale points appropriately.
Collaboration is encouraged, but not required. Having fun is both encouraged and required.
(Collaboration can happen between player and player as well as non-players and players. Oftentimes this term is used for shorthand as: “Done with someone(s) else.”)
Personal Code:
Points are reset at new years. The player may compare and compete against past and future versions of themselves. Collaboration between future and past is also allowed and encouraged.
Tasks that are started before the point reset but are completed after count are split between the past’s points and the current points. The player may retroactively add points to past year’s count in this circumstance.
Tasks that are completed but not in a way that is enjoyable may be redone for full points. Tasks that are completed in an enjoyable way may be redone for half the points earned the last time the task was completed. Tasks are reset at new years alongside points, unless the player does not want to reset it.
Tasks are to be completed by the player in ways that are fun, inventive, or both. No task is allowed to be completed in a boring way, unless the player deems it necessary for fun.
The player is allowed to be silly.
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Tasks:
Click on a task to see it in full. If you would like to create a task, would like to have your name listed under people that have completed a task (if you’ve documented it somewhere online it would be lovely if you gave me the address so I can link to it!), or have any other queries about tasks you can email me.
Get a bite! (10 Points)
Inspired by: The post that started it all by tumblr user paper-mario-wiki.
Info: Next time you enjoy a meal in your home, eat it viscerally and animalistically. this need not obligate eating it “viciously” or “violently”, though the interpretation is left up to the player. Approach food like you’ve never seen it before.
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Pulling weeds. (5 points)
Info: Learn about one of your local weeds so you can annoy people by pointing them out! Bonus 3 points for doing flower pressing to your weed of choice.
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Additional rules (5 points)
Inspired by: Bowling game night.
Play a game and add extra rules that make it more fun and/or more chaotic. You may add secret rules if so desired. Add 1 bonus point for every person that plays the game with you with the added rules.
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Urawaza (5 points)
Taken from: SF0.org.
Info: Show someone a better way to solve a mundane problem they are facing.
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Things You Can Run Through (5 points)
Taken from: SF0.org.
Info: Find some. (Certainly, you’ll have to make sure you can run through them.)
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Macaroni Art! (5 points)
Info: Make some.
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When did these come out? (5 points)
Inspired by: Fruit Adventures.
Info: Try a fruit that you’ve never ever eaten before. Add 5 bonus points for reading the wikipedia page for it while eating it.
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Saucy Tales (5 points)
Taken from: SF0.org.
Info: Every ancient condiment in the back of your fridge is a tale of neglect and abandonment. Tell us yours.
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Mud pies! (5 points)
Inspired by: Challenging Mud by Shiraga Kazuo
Info: Play/wrestle with mud, the messier the better!
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Pasta Challenge. (5 points)
Inspired by: Pasta Quest.
Info: Create a pasta dish using as many different types of pasta as possible. Add 5 points for also making several different sauces to try the pasta with.
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Themed Night (10 points)
Inspired by Noir Night.
Info: Set up a night that is themed around something. A concept, theme, song, idea, ETC. Play out your self assigned character in this space as well as you possibly can. Plus 5 points for collaboration.
Death Kava
Taken from: SF0.org.
Info: Eat a food that frightens you.
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Secret Place (10 points)
Taken from: SF0.org
Info: Enter a secret place.
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Visual gag (10 points)
Inspired by: Pride and Joy.
Info: Using objects around you, create a visual pun. Bonus 10 points if someone laughs at it.
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Merci (10 points)
Taken from: SF0.org.
Make a Thank You sign, and post it appropriately.
Thank you.
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Delivery! (10 points)
Info: Send mail art to someone. Digital e-mail art also counts.
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Dinner for Breakfast (10 points)
Info: Have dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner.
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Wakey-Wakey (10 points)
Inspired by: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake.
Info: Read a page of Finnegans Wake. Write down your interpretation of it.
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Odottemita (15 points)
Info: Learn a dance. It doesn’t matter if it’s imperfect as long as you’ve tried it. Bonus 10 points for performing it in public, add 10 more points for performing in front of a good sized audience.
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Personification² (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org.
Info: Take an ordinary object from your house. Draw what it would look like if it was human.
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Player Portrait (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org, changed to better fit Tasks' rules
Info: Paint a fellow player. Can be them in real life or a representation of them. Any medium/style, but let us know what you end up doing with it.
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Information Insertion (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org
Insert information in a place that has an absence of information.
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Street Junk Sculpture (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org
Info: Create a sculpture by arranging things you find on the street.
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Put the power into powerpoint (15 points)
Inspired by: Great Rock and Roll Pauses
Info: Create a powerpoint slide documenting something that happened to you. Use as little text as posible and as many arrows, pie charts, graphs, and visuals as posible. 5 bonus points for presenting it to someone.
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Placepoem (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org, inspired by: textopia.org (now defunct)
Info: Write a poem about your favorite place, by only assembling text you find in that place.
1. Go to the place you want to write a poem about.
2. Find some text. E.g. street signs, advertising posters, graffiti, garbage etc.
3. Document the text you find - take pictures, or just note down what you find and where.
4. Cut and paste until you have a poem.
5. Post it here, along with documentation of the texts and the place.
Rules: You may insert three words which are your own (that you have not found on the location).
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Potted Plant Distribution (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org
Info: Acquire a small potted plant. Leave the plant in a store, cafe, or a location of your choosing that has lack of potted plants.
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Work Is So Strange (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org
Info: Describe in some detail the strangest thing that happened to you at work in the past week. If you don't work, describe the strangest thing that happened to you during a leisure activity.
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Saint George (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org.
Info: Slay a dragon. Celebrate in verse, song, or painting.
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Get Up, Take A Shower, Eat Breakfast, Go To Work (15 points)
Taken from: SF0.org.
Info: Do something that you've done more times than you can count, but do it a way that you've never heard of.
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Sundial I
Taken from SF0.org
Info: Make a sundial. Use it!
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Happy Days! (30 points)
Inspired by: 10,000th day
Go to the 10000 days old calculator. If you can, celebrate your 10,000th day on earth! If it's too late, pick another sigificant number.
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Logs:
Documenting the completed tasks of player: Jelly. If you want your tasks to be documented here as well, you can email me.
If you would like to be added to the list of active players, you can email me. Additionally, if you're documenting the completion of your tasks somewhere online you can give me the address and I'll link to it!
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