Cosmic Wimpout

I was first intruduced to Cosmic Wimpout during a hellish summer I spent in North Carolina in 1993. The people I played with had a set of dice so worn you could barely see the symbols. They played a variant they called Zonk, but in retrospect it was clearly CW with a couple of house rules.

Or maybe not. There's an Official Zonk! Home Page. I dont know which came first. Maybe CW is a variant of Zonk!, or maybe they're both variants of some ancient Aztec game. Who knows?

I brought my winning scoresheets with me when I came home. I tried to reconstruct the rules from memory, using the scoresheets as a guide, but failed. Then, a month or two later, I found a boxed set of cubes at a local game store. I was ecstatic!

Almost immediately, I lost the rulesheet.

This site is the result of my trying to find the rules online, and deciding that it'd just be simpler if I collected everything I could find in one place. Enjoy.

I'm not a very organized person by nature. This is odd, as I have strong archivist tendencies. Until I can figure out some kind of structure for these pages, they'll probably look a lot like this.

Unsorted things stored or maintained here

• Frequently Asked Questions, marked up for web browsing
  Official rules, house rules, origins of the game, and more.
• Frequently Asked Questions, text-only
  NOTE: these FAQs are out of date; see below for the official location.
• Merchandise - cubes, boards, accessories... You probably should check out the Official Site if you're looking for merchandise, since they're the source.
• Tournament Rules from Usenet
• A review of CW by Gamer Haven
  I'm keeping it here in case they erase it there.
• Request For Discussion for the (nonexistant) newsgroup rec.games.board.cosmic-wimpout

  Unsorted links maintained somewhere else (not elsewhere)

• The Newsgroup alt.games.cosmic-wimpout
  (Not carried at all sites. Ask your news admin.)
• The FAQ
  The NEW home of The Original Cosmic Wimpout FAQ (maintained by James Elkinton)
• FAQ, HTML-ized by Druel the Chaotic
  (Yes, the one who transcribed the Principia Discordia to ASCII.)
• John Bolduc's Wimpout Page
  With different dice graphics than I've seen before.
• Bear Creek Camp Rules To Cosmic Wimpout
  With Pretty Colors! Woohoo!
• Wimpout for the PalmOS
  Cosmic Wimpout for the PalmPilot or Visor (or other Palm device). I guess I can stop trying to write my own now.
• Zarf explains the rules to Cosmic Wimpout on the ifMUD
• ZONK!: The official Stoner Dice Game
• Another ZONK! page
  
• Cosmic Bongout, another name for ZONK!
  
• Search google.com for Cosmic Wimpout links.
  
• Search altavista.com for Cosmic Wimpout links.
  
• Search lycos.com for Cosmic Wimpout links.
  
  Dead Links
  
• Ye Olde Extradimentionelectroplasmatropolis Cafe
  A talker (like a mud) with cosmic wimpout games online.

  To play, connect then either find a game already started or start your own. Type .start cosmic to start a game. Type .join to join a game. .roll rolls the dice and .stop will end your turn and add the points you rolled to your score. The object is to be the first to get 500 points. (To roll individual dice during a turn, ".roll 2 4 5", for example.)

• Java-Wimpout
  I'm not sure what this is for. I found it with Lycos. It's kinda neat, but the audio gets annoying after a while. I played to 300 before I got sick of it. Wish I had the source, though.
• Wimpout Hall of Fame/Lame
  "The Hall of Fame was created in order that a comprehensive record of Cosmic Wimpout play would exist"

  Offline Resources

• Cosmic Wimpout
  P.O. Box 3199
  Greenfield, MA 01302
  413-624-8951
  
• I dunno... ask around. Someone you know must play. If they don't, teach them how.

Questions? Comments? Please mail me at hades@elsewhere.org.

Last modified: Sun May 27 12:31:48 PDT 2001

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