Spoon League Standings 
This week's results - Cumulative results - What's the deal with this spoon thing? - How did it start?
Spoonmeistress: Liz
Number of spoons: 2000
Hiding Places: One on top of the Empire State Building. One at the bottom of Lake Tahoe. One in Bill Clinton's shirt pocket. One underneath a mime at Fisherman's Wharf. One at Hong Kong airport. One in Area 51. One by the side of highway 50. One melted in Death Valley. One in an alligator's mouth in the Everglades. The others were stolen, probably by El Ni�o.
Finders: Nobody found any of them. As a direct consequence, the game has come to an end. It was fun while it lasted. Marguerite wins for finding the smallest non-negative number of spoons (see score table).Spoonmeister: Marius
Number of spoons: 2
Hiding Places: (Gym B) 1 in Jim's pocket. 1 in Marius's hand.
Finders: Liz found the Great White Spoon in Jim's hand. Marguerite found the other one. Despite great hints from the Spoonmeister, Scott did not find any spoons.
Spoonmeistress: Helen
Number of spoons: 3
Hiding Places: 1 behind a display on one of the tables. 1 on the kinship table.
Finders: Marius found 1. Antonella found the Great White Spoon. The remaining spoon is missing, presumed dead.
Spoonmeister: Marius
Number of spoons: 4
Hiding Places: (Gym B) 1 in Marius's pocket, free to the first person to ask if the spoons had been hidden. 1 in "lost property". 2 on the bible table.
Finders: Debbie found 2. Liz found 1. The 4th spoon was found but we don't know who got it.
Full results are missing for week 5. There may also be an apocryphal "Week 4�" but some researchers deny this. If the spoonmeister for Week 4� owns up, the debate will be settled.
Spoonmeistress: Debbie
Number of Spoons: in a scene reminiscent of loaves and fishes, a total of seven spoons were found!
Finders: Marius (3!), Sarah Lowe, Liz, Lorraine, and Marguerite.
Spoonmeister: Glenn
Number of spoons: 5
Hiding Places: Bible table, bulletin board, homegroup table, under the VOV magazines, and under the vacation bible club flyers.
Finders: Nina, Antonella and Liz found 1 each. Marta found 2.
Spoonmeistress: Debbie
Number of spoons: 5
Hiding Places: In a departure from normal play, the spoons were hidden around Club Wichman on Thursday, rather than Church on Sunday.
Finders: Ann(2), Lorraine, Marius, Sue
Spoonmeister: Marius
Number of spoons: Five (5)
Hiding places: One spoon was on a chair. Three others were on various tables. One was on the water fountain at the front of the pavilion, and remained unfound. There were also two false spoons. One was found by Ann (luckily she found a real one too) and the other remained unfound on top of one of the coffee dispensers.
Finders: Liz, Ann, Marta, Sarah
Spoonmeistress: Ann
Number of spoons: Five (5)
Hiding places: All spoons were fiendishly hidden just below the notice board at the back of church.
Finders: Marius, Liz, Nina, Glenn, Marta(pre-season scores do not count towards total).
Weeks 5 and 6 are dubious. There may be missing weeks somewhere in there too.
| Name | Week Number | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Total | |
| Ann | M | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 77 | 80 | |||
| Antonella | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 178 | 180 | ||
| Debbie | - | - | M | - | M | 2 | -109 | - | -20 | -127 | |
| Glenn | 1 | - | - | M | - | 477 | - | -3 | 474 | ||
| Helen | - | - | - | - | - | M | - | 120 | 120 | ||
| Liz | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | M | 1 | 1 | M | 5 | |
| Lorraine | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 333 | 335 | |||
| Marguerite | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 42 | 2 | |||
| Marius | 1 | M | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | M | 1 | M | -6 | 6 |
| Mark | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 12 | |||
| Marta | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 97 | 100 | |||
| Nina | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 221 | 223 | ||
| Sarah | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 109 | 111 | |||
| Scott | - | - | - | - | - | - | 402 | 402 | |||
| Stefan | - | - | - | - | - | - | 434 | 434 | |||
| Sue | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | |||
On Sunday the spoons are hidden somewhere in church by the spoonmeister. The spoons are a bright mango orange sort of color and have a bible verse attached. Players must find as many spoons as they can, and bring them along to kinship on Thursday. If a player finds a spoon and is not able to make it on Thursday, they must get it to the new spoonmeister before the next Sunday service, or they will forfeit the points associated with the spoon, and may incur penalty points too. The spoonmeister is responsible for collecting unfound spoons and returning them on Thursday. The spoonmeister is not allowed to compete.
On Thursday players return their spoons and receive one point for each one they found. Only authentic ihopppp spoons will be accepted.
No one knows, actually. We had the idea that the person with the most cumulative points would be the spoonmeister for the next week, but it never seems to work out that way. More recently it has become traditional for the finder of the Great White Spoon to be the spoonmeister for the next week.
The game will end when we run out of spoons (unlikely) or everyone gets bored (more likely). The latter has happened, since nobody found any of the spoons that Liz so diligently hid. Marguerite wins for finding the smallest non-negative number of spoons.
We were playing the card game "spoons". With plastic knives. And things got a Bit Silly. 'Nuff said.
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Last update: October 13, 1997