Can't believe I didn't have a thread for this. Anyone else have the sickness of playing this game? I think my brother got me doing it around 1983... I've been Looping and bombing photos with Loopies ever since.
Here are some rules (minus their #8) that were posted on a facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204672773/
Hope to see you at the Lake next year and let the games begin.
The goal of the game is to trick other players into looking at a circle (or "Loop) formed by your thumb and index fingers. If someone is caught looking at the Loop, they get one punch to an appendage of their choice.
TERMS:
Loop - A circle formed by a thumb and index finger.
Looper - Someone who forms a Loop in an attempt to punch their friend in the arm.
Target - The intended victim of a Looper.
Bystander - Someone who glances at a Loop intended for someone else.
RULES OF THE GAME:
The Basics
1) A Loop *must* be made with a thumb AND an index finger. If a player lacks one (or both) of these digits, then they are exempt from the game, as God has already ruined their life.
2) A Loop must be formed below the Looper's waist.
3) Loops may not be placed directly in the line of sight of a Target. The Target must "discover" their own misfortune in the form of a Loop.
4) If a Target can break a Loop *without looking directly at it* then they are awarded one free punch on any appendage of the Looper.
5) Bystanders may also be punched if they are caught looking at a Loop. This is optional and up to the discretion of the Looper.
6) Targets and Bystanders (collectively known as Victims) may request which appendage gets punched. For example: "Don't punch my right arm, I use it for friendly-strangers."
7) No one can claim to be Neutral. Only the Looper can decide who does and doesn't get a shot to the arm.
8) Props are legal and welcome tool in the world of competitive Looping. Key chains, lighters, pornography, vocal and other methods of gaining a Target's attention are all viable options. However, the Prop may not disrupt the "flow" of the Loop. For example, a Loop is judged as broken if a magazine is held BY the thumb and index fingers.
Loopy Game
Moderators: E_, LC addict, FasterThanYou, crwky
- E_
- Site Admin
- Posts: 14813
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:26 pm
- Marina/Ramp: Currently mostly out of Jamestown but spend a lot of time at the other Marinas.
Pre2012-Conley Bottom Mostly, Waitsboro, Alligator I&II ramps, Leesford, Pulaski County Park (when it has water), Grider, State Dock (via boat), and Jamestown are a few places you might find me. - Location: Kentucky (Lake Cumberland)
- Contact:
Loopy Game
Buy American, the job you save just might be your own.
Re: Loopy Game
You ARE weird!
"The language of friendship is not words but meaning." (Henry David Thoreau)
- E_
- Site Admin
- Posts: 14813
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:26 pm
- Marina/Ramp: Currently mostly out of Jamestown but spend a lot of time at the other Marinas.
Pre2012-Conley Bottom Mostly, Waitsboro, Alligator I&II ramps, Leesford, Pulaski County Park (when it has water), Grider, State Dock (via boat), and Jamestown are a few places you might find me. - Location: Kentucky (Lake Cumberland)
- Contact:
Re: Loopy Game
Hopefully it keeps me young. lol
Buy American, the job you save just might be your own.
Re: Loopy Game
Ummmmm....it's not working!
"The language of friendship is not words but meaning." (Henry David Thoreau)
- E_
- Site Admin
- Posts: 14813
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:26 pm
- Marina/Ramp: Currently mostly out of Jamestown but spend a lot of time at the other Marinas.
Pre2012-Conley Bottom Mostly, Waitsboro, Alligator I&II ramps, Leesford, Pulaski County Park (when it has water), Grider, State Dock (via boat), and Jamestown are a few places you might find me. - Location: Kentucky (Lake Cumberland)
- Contact:
Re: Loopy Game
- Attachments
-
- Screenshot_20180109-200714.jpg (488.59 KiB) Viewed 4057 times
Buy American, the job you save just might be your own.
Re: Loopy Game
Things change I guess. I don't think I am that much older than you E but this particular sign had a totally different meaning "back in the day"
- Fall Creek
- Better Member
- Posts: 250
- Joined: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:20 am
- Marina/Ramp: Fall Creek rmap
- Location: New Bremen Ohio
- E_
- Site Admin
- Posts: 14813
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:26 pm
- Marina/Ramp: Currently mostly out of Jamestown but spend a lot of time at the other Marinas.
Pre2012-Conley Bottom Mostly, Waitsboro, Alligator I&II ramps, Leesford, Pulaski County Park (when it has water), Grider, State Dock (via boat), and Jamestown are a few places you might find me. - Location: Kentucky (Lake Cumberland)
- Contact:
Re: Loopy Game
My brother was a kid in the 60s and it was then what it is as I showed above. I am a kid of the 80s and it was the same to us.
I don't know what meaning you mean Pinnacle.
Fall Creek lol, that just makes me want to do it more.
I don't know what meaning you mean Pinnacle.
Fall Creek lol, that just makes me want to do it more.
Buy American, the job you save just might be your own.
Re: Loopy Game
My brothers and I did play such a game (as described in #1 in the link) in the mid to late 1960's, but the loop could be placed anywhere where someone was not looking and the object was to get them to look and receive the punch, unless a finger could be jabbed into the loop. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... cle%20Game
I think it then devolved into a sign to represent the dismissive eat me/ eat crap/ blow me / kiss my butt vernacular of the 1970s
Well...This might cause some offense but here goes.......
What I was told (by my father who worked vice in the Dayton police dept. in the second third of the last century) is that this was some sort of sexual sign when displayed below the waist (either for homosexual or anal sex, and/or perhaps just an invitation for oral sex ).
I think it then devolved into a sign to represent the dismissive eat me/ eat crap/ blow me / kiss my butt vernacular of the 1970s
Well...This might cause some offense but here goes.......
What I was told (by my father who worked vice in the Dayton police dept. in the second third of the last century) is that this was some sort of sexual sign when displayed below the waist (either for homosexual or anal sex, and/or perhaps just an invitation for oral sex ).