Welcome to the Big Top!

We’re still spiffing up to get ready for the big show, don’t mind us, but we hope you’ll come on in and take a look around. Check out the rules for the game, our forms for submitting winning phrases and signing your blog up for future games, and our feedback form. Please look over our site policies.

Tomorrow Heather, our Ring Master, will post the first clue will at 1 p.m. eastern time. Each subsequent clue will be posted in 10 minute increments. There are 6 clues in all. Come and play at the time of posting or come whenever you can during the next 24 hours. The game stays open for a whole day, and people can play at their leisure and try for that elusive Best Comment Award. If you play at posting time, you're more likely to win the coveted First Place Medal, for being the first to submit Jon's unscrambled phrase.  We would love to hear your experience of how the game works both ways. After that winners will be determined and a recap will be published on Thursday. Let the games begin!

In Ring Number One you got our three practice runs. You’ll see the three of us taking turns in the ringleading role leading our carnies-in-crime around the blogosphere, choreographing our dance. See the posts labeled practice.

In Ring Number Two there is the recap where Tina, as a master of ceremonies, presents our performance complete with links to the sights Jon (or his proxy) visited based on the clues from the practice round. Click through to admire the glitter. See the posts titled recap.

In Ring Number Three is the peanut gallery, and by the peanut gallery, we mean you. Make yourself known. Yes, we encourage comments from you! Heckle away. Without you, there would be no us.

So, how are you?  You ready to play, Tuesday, March 9th at 1PM, Eastern time?  (That's 10 AM on the West Coast :)) Give us a good heckle, let us know you're here!