Dumbest Rules For A Game!
2 years ago
North Carolina, USA

What's the dumbest rule you've ever seen in the rules for a game here on SRC?

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United States

This thread already exists here:

https://www.speedrun.com/talk/thread/ctvl6

YUMmy_Bacon5 and Pear like this
North Carolina, USA

@Viper I tried looking for it earlier but couldn't find it lol that's why I made this one. I'm sorry

YUMmy_Bacon5 likes this
United States

"No rules have been defined"

Aqua_boy0, Wrap and 11 others like this
Israel

O.D.W. That reminds me. There was one instance of a game where I was thinking to speedrun, but no rules have been defined. The moderator was inactive, so I couldn't contact him for help. In addition, the leaderboard had no runs at all (not even the run of the moderator who requested the game), so I couldn't even look at an exist run to copy what it does.

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United Kingdom

Rule 4729: You can only use your nose to control the joystick

Kidding

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American Samoa

I've never played games by stupid rules

james likes this
Canada

Board I just acquired could possibly have the worst rules ever written https://i.imgur.com/cX6kgT5.png https://i.imgur.com/6PH6iFu.png

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United Kingdom

@Walgrey I lolled more at the name "milk god"

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Austria

@Walgrey so did you collect all the milk?

I wouldn't consider meme-categories for "stupid rules" (as long as you mark them as misc)

YUMmy_Bacon5 and Oreo321 like this
United States

get that milk Datface

YUMmy_Bacon5, landus and 4 others like this
United States

"Make all burritos possible and finish game. Nobody is going to do this category, but I just wanted to create a category called "Burrito%" because haha the game is focused around burritos... ugh..."

Exact quote from the rules of a game I found a while ago

Gaming_64, Act_ and 9 others like this

I once saw a game, that I believe has since been removed, where the person who set up the leaderboard immediately made such completely undisguised category bloat that he even named a category "Free WR%", with the rules something like "this category is to give my friend a wr as soon as he submits a run".

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YUMmy_Bacon5, Aqua_boy0 and 7 others like this
Canada

Ratatouille: Food Frenzy used to have several short meme categories that were made solely because, and I quote "for a free world record on your profile". Among these were a "Credits Warp" category (you go into the options menu and press credits), and IRL category, a Die category, and other unnecessary things.

Aqua_boy0, Pear and 3 others like this
United States

“Doug%” for Kids On Site (Sega CD). This is the only category for the game.

I think the rules changed a bit since there is now a second runner, but originally it was required to have a friend physically present with you during your run whose name is also Doug (this prevented me from running the game at the time). When a second runner got creative and submitted a run with various “Dougs” in the layout (Nickelodeon’s Doug, Doug Bradley aka Pinhead from Hellraiser) the rules were changed to “Must have a Doug with you” instead, for all of us lacking an actual friend named Doug.

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JankedJesus, YUMmy_Bacon5 and 3 others like this
United States

"No cheating No faking runs".

No kidding this is absolutely legit, on game Rooftop Snipers

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Gaming_64, YUMmy_Bacon5 and 2 others like this
Finland

personal favorite is when there is no "time starts" or "time ends" in the rules

Having timer as a requirement in the rules just tells me the moderators are lazy (except load times)

Aqua_boy0, Pat_Speedruns and 2 others like this
Glamorganshire, Wales

Speed Builders https://i.imgur.com/HNCOfx7.jpg Category rules are passable, 'use in-game time' but the game in question is generally played against random people, and I'm not sure how they identify these pros but I'd be interested to know. In a way the rules are actually fine, banning cheaters, but screenshot evidence is accepted so...

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