The many fours of people who read beehivehairdresser on a regular basis shouldn’t be surprised to find out that while at my incredibly boring day job I enjoy inventing new games and finding new ways to keep my spirits up. 

Well, I’ve come up with a new one, or rather, I’m finally ready to share the secret game that I’ve been playing for the past year and a half inside of my cube.

I call it, The Rubber Band Extravaganza Shooting Game!!!

This just so happens to be a game that can be played as either a 1st, 2nd or 3rd person shooter game, and it can be a multiple player game too.

The basics that you need to have a competitive Rubber Band Extravaganza Shooting Game!!! matchup are various push pins, a cork board of sorts, a good rubber band, two fingers, and a little bit of imagination.

Right now I’m working with a happy face layout, which I created myself, and can be downloaded as a neat little plugin for your consumption.

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Basically, the goal of the game is to use two fingers to flick a rubber band and get the rubber band to catch onto one of the various push pins - as you can see from the above photo, I landed a shot squarely on the left eye. 

And since the game primarily takes place in the semi private quarters of your own cubicle you can easily wear bandannas to cover various part of your face from imaginary people shooting rubber bands back at you, as well as rather loudly lay in pain on the floor, writhing in pain from either an imaginary rubber band shot wound, or a leg cramp. 

Also, if you’re feeling brave, and don’t care about people trash talking you behind your back around the water cooler about how you live in a fantasy world revolving around cereal box characters, you might want to start inviting your fellow coworkers to play the game against you.  This version is more along the lines of role playing as a Secret Service agent against would be assassin, pitting one player against another. 

Or, you might want to get your favorite coworker to have a skills match, either by straight shot for shot skill, or a good old fashioned game of H-O-R-S-E - sans basketball.

Any way you play it only adds to the mystic that is….

THE RUBBER BAND EXTRAVAGANZA SHOOTING GAME!!!