THE
COLLECTED RULES FOR
PLAYING WONGA LA LA!
Revised October 2006
Dee Dee, your Wonga La La game monkey!
Who
Can Play
The game is open to all
posters (even new ones) on the Red Heel Sock
Monkey Message Board, with a limit of 3
players per household per Whip.
However, Pierre Mon Frere
is not allowed to play. (Sorry, but we agree
with Mrs. Tiffany on this one.) Anyone else caught in the act of trying
to sabatoge Wonga La La will likewise be banned from play.
How
to Play/Scoring
Each
tournament is divided into
four Whips and a Sycophant
Smackdown. Each Whip (and the Smackdown) is divided into two
Rounds. Rounds last 3-5 days, depending. The beginning and end of each
round will be announced in advance. Late answers will not be counted.
Early answers will not be counted.
Round 1
"To start it, you got to say a
color,
a number, and an animal, plus
two adjectives, a proper noun, and someplace on the planet Earth."
Player answers are placed in a table in the order in which
they are submitted. "Columns," below, indicates columns with answers
from all players for the same item.
1. Answers that do not fit
the criteria are scored (-1) and Get
Banished.
2. If any answers in the
same column start with the same letter of the
alphabet, each answer scores at zero (0) and Gets Banished.
3. And if any two answers
in a column are the same, then the first
answer is scored at zero and the second answer is scored (-1) and both
of
them Get Banished (which they would have anyway for starting with the
same letter, but there are no double penalites in this round.)
4. And then all the
answers that are left are scored (1) and Saved for
Wonga La La.
5. Lack of an answer in
any column is scored (-1).
6. And finally, whoever
posts their answers first during Round 1
receives a bonus point.
ADDENDUMS
** Non-English words are
not allowed. (I'm sorry, but we're too lazy to
look them up.)
** Numbers are scored on
the basis of their spelled form, e.g., "1" =
"one".
Round 2
"Next, take all your words that
did not
Get Banished but were Saved
for Wonga La La.
You will use them in a poem to
honor Wonga
La La. The
first and third lines must be, "Hey Wonga La La hey!"*
The second line
must use all of your Saved words.
The fourth line must use no
more than
seven words, of which three must be unique to the poem."
* in Whip 2, we will use:
"Wonga La
La oh oh oh!"
* in Whip 3, we will use:
"Wonga La
La! Wonga La La!"
* in Whip 4, we will use:
"Oh Wonga
La La, mystery!"
1. If you follow all of
the directions about what to use where in your
poem to Wonga La La, you neither gain nor lose points.
However, for
each instance that a direction is not followed, one point is deducted
from the Round 2 score.
2. If you rhyme the second
and fourth lines, you get 1 point. But if
you use the same word to rhyme them, then you lose 1 point.
3. Also, if you use the
same word to end either line 2 or 4 that
another player already has, then while you gain no points, that player
gains 1.
In addition, each Wonga La
La Whip Judge is allowed 1 point to cast for
the following categories:
4. Best use of rhythm
5. Best use of humor
6. Best creative imagery
7. Best single phrase
8. Best homage to Wonga La
La
Each Whip Judge is also
allowed to cast 1 discretionary point, for any
reason, to one player.
Any ties between players
at the end of Round 2 will be determined by
dice roll.
Whoever has the greatest
number of points at the end of Round 2 wins
the whip, and shall have the song of honor sung to them by the other
players:
Hail Wonga La La, Hail!
Hail Wonga La La, Hail!
Winner of this La La
Whip
Your Ship's Begun to
S-S-Sail!
Tournament rule
addendums:
Anyone ending a whip (not
just round 1) with negative points is
disqualified for the remainder of the tourney.
You can end a whip with
zero points without disqualification.
The winner of each whip
shall have the song of honor sung to them by
the other players, and shall have whip bragging rights.
However, there isn't a
Wonga La La Tournament Grand Champion until it's
all over, which requires a Sycophant Smackdown among the
individual whip winners.
* * *
Sycophant Smackdown
Only Whip
Champions are allowed to compete in the Smackdown, which has its own
rules:
RULES FOR THE WONGA
LA LA SYCOPHANT SMACKDOWN
Round 1
"To
start it, you got to say a texture, a measurement, and a plant,
plus an adjective, a word ending in "-ing", a proper noun, and the name
of one of the other Sycophant Smackdown players."
1. Answers that do not fit the
criteria are scored (-1) and Get
Banished.
2. If any answers in the same
column start with the same letter of the
alphabet, then the first answer is scored at (0) and the second answer
is scored (-1) and both of them Get Banished.
3. And if any two answers in a
column are the same answer, then the
first answer is scored at (0) and the second answer is scored (-2) and
both of them Get Banished.
4. And then all the answers
that are left are scored 1 and Saved for
Wonga La La.
5. Lack of an answer in any
column is scored (-2).
6. And finally, whoever posts
their answers first during Round 1
receives 1 point... and whoever posts their answers last gets 1 point,
too!
Round 2
"Next,
take all your words that did not Get Banished but were Saved for
Wonga La La. You will use them in TWO poems to honor Wonga La La. This
is hard to do, because you want to make them as different as possible!"
For each of your two poems:
A) The first and third lines
should be one of these four choices (be
sure to use the same Wonga phrase for both lines 1 and 3):
"Hail Wonga La La Hail!"
"Wonga La La oh oh oh!"
"Wonga La La! Wonga La La!"
"Oh Wonga La La, mystery!"
B) The second line must use all
of your Saved words PLUS ONE WORD FROM
EACH OF YOUR OPPONENTS' POOL OF SAVED WORDS. (You can pick a different
set of three opponents' words for each of your two poems.)
C) The fourth line can be
anything you like.
1. There are no points for
rhyming, or for having complete sentences.
2. But there IS a bonus point
for any poem containing a question!
In addition, each Wonga La La
Whip Judge is allowed 1 point to cast for
the following categories:
3. Best use of rhythm
4. Best use of humor
5. Best creative imagery
6. Best single phrase
7. Best homage to Wonga La La
8. Weirdest poem (new
category!)
9. Most Distinct 'Trees (new
category special for the Smackdown! How
different are your two poems within the parameters drawn?)
10. Judges' Discretionary
Point (given for any reason)
Whoever has the greatest
number of points at the end of Round 2 WINS
the Wonga La La Tournament, and shall have the penultimate song of
honor sung to them by the other players and spectators!
WONGA LA LA, BABIES!
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Sunnyflower
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Last updated December 9, 2006