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The Fall 2024 game is Friday, November 22nd at 7:00pm in DH 2315.A somewhat psychotic variation on a classic game By Andrew Plotkin Revised 2/7/2001 by Sean "Teki" Dobbs Revised 11/14/2002 by David "dkitchin" Kitchin Revised 3/10/2003, 11/7/2003, 3/25/2004, 11/19/2004, 3/24/2005, 3/30/2006 by Benjamin "Hey You" Gilbert Revised 3/2008 by edanaher, csjackso, ddagradi, cmartens, jgg, csawyer, ehohenst, mglisson... Revised 8/10/2008, 2/8/2009, 11/5/2009 by edanaher Revised 2/20/2012 by tbroman, kharring, mjsulliv, eforney, aleibowi… Revised 9/21/2014 by mwoolfor, jlareau, sguertin, egarbade, afrieder, ssharera, cmorey, bwachowi, jnemes... Revised 11/4/2015, 2/8/2016 by briedel, egarbade, tparenti, mwoolfor, cmorey, eeb, jlareau, jpdoyle, sctoor Revised 9/29/2016 by ssharera, briedel, egarbade, tparenti, mjmurphy, hfernand, jpdoyle, sctoor Revised 2/16/2017 by briedel, mjmurphy Revised 2/22/2022 by kmcarpen, spalsen, mwmccoy, jamesbyr, yicheng3, kdulla, kevinson, kgurusha Revised 11/22/2024 by djyin, bennerr, jholz, asuiero, kbooker A partial change history of these rules lives on GitHub. Classic rules may be found here. A timer / scoreboard for the game lives here. These are the revised rules for Capture the Flag with Stuff Version Too Point Eau.In Fall of '94, KGB ran a game of Capture-the-Flag, using the labyrinthine corridors of Wean and Doherty Halls at CMU. It was quite successful (modulo a few sprained ankles); a good time was had by all. But deep nasty things in my brain began whispering that perhaps more fun might be made available... by the addition of Stuff. Stuff is a key concept in game design. Pong plus Stuff makes Arkanoid. Risk plus Stuff makes Cosmic Encounter. Rock-Scissors-Paper plus Stuff makes Magic: the Gathering. Capture-the-Flag plus Stuff makes... Capture-the-Flag With Stuff. In Fall of '07, Randall Munroe came to speak at CMU, on the very night of that semester's Capture-the-Flag with Stuff. Ed Ryan publicly invited him to play, and this led to by far the largest game ever played, with over 250 people playing. This led to discussion on how to adapt the game to its ever-growing size, out of which came several new idea. And thus, Capture the Flag with Stuff Version Too Point Eau was born. In Spring of '21, due to a relentless onslaught of paninis, CtFwS was held in Minecraft, with a scale model of Wean and Doherty built by members of the KGB. 
In an attempt to make the game more understandable to those not willing to spend hours understanding every nuance of the rules, there are now three different rules pages:
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