I'm taking a bit of a risk, the Mystery cup is nigh on end, as is the tag team cup. I requested the return of this, and now am hoping it will work under my supervision. This time there are nine rules (to prevent a draw if only two people take part) The first comic follow the rules, the second breaks all of them. Your job is to guess the rules. Any questions then ask.
This comic follows all the rules
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This comic breaks all of them.
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I'm in my cave, I'm searching for my power animal...

I don't think I broke any rules here.
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This is going to crash and burn isn't it?

And dcomposed, if you axutally want to compete you have to guess the rules, not make a comic.

damn, thats gonna be harder than just copying the rules compliant strip

Hmm let me guess...

• Use Narration in the first frame only
  
• Mention a basketball player (sportsman?)
  
• Spell someone's name wrong
  
• One of the frames must rhyme
  
• Only use Forum Regulars characters
  
• Name every character who appears
  
• Use (at least?) two different backgrounds.
  
• Not be funny
  

Rule #1: You must spell a famous person's name wrong.

Rule #2: You may not use the words Hi, how, fine, yourself, been, better, sucky, five or dollah.

Rule #3: One character's dialog must include a synonym for happy.

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This is going to crash and burn isn't it?

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Plus the fact that there compleate shit.

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Hmm let me guess...

• Use Narration in the first frame only
  
• One of the frames must rhyme
  
• Only use Forum Regulars characters
  

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Also,

Here's another comic following the remaining 6 rules

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Plus the fact that there compleate shit.

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• Use some form of the words "shoe", "warp", and possibly "talk".
  
• Use the "wall" background exactly once.
  
• The title must be one word long.
  

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• Use some form of the words "shoe", "warp".
  
• Use the "wall" background exactly once.
  

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both the second and third panel must have a question in them

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both the second and third panel must have a question in them

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That was monumentally crap.

This contest stinks like week old roadkill.

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The title must have five letters?

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Use a photographic background.

Here's the next two, one follows both rules, the other breaks both, you should get one rule, someone clever like Gabe may get the second, which is probably a hard one.
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This one breaks both the rules
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Use exactly two photographic backgrounds.

No nothing to do with backgrounds, just a weird coincidence, this is to stop your next guess which will probably be use 1 drawn background.

Two of the frames must contain the same two characters.

Kramer (and evil d if you're still here) this is as obvious as I can make it without telling you, kramer your last guess is sort of right but not.
This comic follows both rules
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This comic breaks both.
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One of them you should get now, the other might require some looking after good luck to you both!

Use more than two characters.

Thank you.

Kramer vs Kramer 4
evil_d 3
Nostalgia_Man 1

There's one rule left, NM has now got 3rd place, Evil_d can still joint win with Kramer if he can fnd that last clue.

All dialogue boxes must contain a minimum of 5 words.

Damn I got up too late and missed the more than two characters one, um

Use more than 35 words in each comic?

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All dialogue boxes must contain a minimum of 5 words.

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Well done Kramer, I wouldn't mind there being another, mainly so I can join it from the start. Though there could be rule changes, because it seems to easy just for everyone to give up. Though maybe that's because they don't like Baz, maybe if Kramer made one more people would participate?

Yeah, I might run one, maybe next week or so. The previous ones looked fun, so hopefully I can recapture some of that. The way the old ones were done, the people would post comics that they thought conformed to the rules, rather than just state the rules. That would probably be more fun. Plus the hosts of the previous ones made an effort to make their strips funny.

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Plus the hosts of the previous ones made an effort to make their strips funny.

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Congratulations, kramer. I wouldn't mind participating in another one, and I think the idea of having participants post compliant comics is good.

Bazilla, thanks for reviving the format, and good job hosting it. And your strips weren't terrible -- I actually thought Broken was quite funny.

I was just reading up on the old contests, and I think I'll follow the system of No 6- where Gabe allowed both comic entries and people stating rules outright.

I recommend everyone reads that contest. There are some amazing strips from Dr K there.

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No 6

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No 6

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Someone please reassure me that I'm not losing my mind. I can't find any Rules contest with the number 6 on it.

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That sounds like Rules Contest 4.

Which was followed by my ill-fated Rules Contest 5, which was followed, as far as I can tell, by a long pause, and then this, the misnumbered Rules Contest 7.

Unless there was a whole contest that I somehow managed to miss entirely. That's what I'm trying to figure out.

Listen to evil_d -- he sounds like someone who knows what he's talking about!

We can always have Rules-6 next. If I recall, gemini 7 was launched before Gemini 6 as well.

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If I recall, gemini 7 was launched before Gemini 6 as well.

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