My Time-Keeping System

[Luchador]

Just wanted to throw out my time-keeping system, in case anyone wants to give it a try. You need 20 fatigue tokens or cubes in three different colors. I use 5 red, 10 yellow, and 5 green cubes placed in a cloth bag. When a fatigue token is placed, draw from the bag and place it normally. A red cube represents five elapsed ministers in a match. A yellow cube represents three elapsed minutes. A green cube represents one elapsed minute. When the match is over, simply add the value of each cube to get a match time. For example: 3 yellows and two greens is an 11:00 match. A twenty-sided die can be rolled three times to determine exact match times. For example, rolling a ‘3’ ‘15’ and ‘11’ after the 11:00 matches gives an exact time of 11:29.

This system works especially well if you want to set a television time-limit for your matches. A 20-minute match, for instance, runs between 4-10 tokens, but will normally run about seven tokens.

[MonkeyDBain]

Interesting

[tricky4815]

I think this is an interesting idea. Got me to thinking about doing an iron man match. I'd probably seed the bag with say 90 minutes worth of tokens just to add a suspense of element where the match could end at an uncertain time.

[Luchador]

Sounds like a cool idea, Tricky. Let us know how it goes.

[hossfreeman]

I'm 100% doing this.

[Shon Maxx]

Interesting idea. I’ll need to try something like this in the future.

[lucifer]

I was intrigued enough by this to purchase 100 poker chips (rather than cubes) yesterday to try it out. I like the idea of being able to execute an Iron Man match 😉