FUN AND GAMES

Now Although the Rabbit loves watching rowing and socialising at HRR, it must be said that there are plenty of other activities that one can partake of while at the Royal, which will only serve to enhance one's enjoyment of the experience, as well as filling those empty moments between heats and glasses of fizzy pop.

So to aid your entertainment while in Henley, the Rabbit suggests you try out some of the following games.

SECTION 1: GOOD CLEAN FUN

BLAZER BINGO
Just the thing to enhance your regatta experience - make new friends, increase your blazer knowledge and win alcohol!!!

Clicking on the link below will produce a random bingo card featuring club blazers you may run into at the Royal, simply print off several bingo cards, distribute to your friends and get hunting.

Click Here For A Random Bingo Card

Each time you see someone in a blazer, simply ask them which club it's from, and if the club is on your list, then cross it off... the first person to get a complete line (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) shouts "Bingo!" and eveyone else playing has to buy them a drink!

(n.b. spotting a blazer isn't enough, you have to talk to the person wearing it to confirm that it is the one you think it is)

WHO ATE ALL THE PIES
This involves searching through the race programme trying to identify which competing rower weighs the most, the heaviest the rabbit has managed to clock, was 21 stone for one of the Lea rowers in 2003.

Variations on a theme are:

  • The heaviest Cox
  • The crew with the biggest weight differential (ie one rower at 16st and one at 10st (excluding coxn's)
  • And of course, since the inclusion of more women's events - the heaviest burd

    SPOT THE WINNERS
    A game to play with a friend or two. Buy a programme then test your knowledge of form by marking off which crews you think will win each heat. Each correct answer gets a point and the end of the day, the person with the least points has to buy the others a bottle of Champers.

    TIGHT GIT GAME
    A much greater challenge for male players than female- how many drinks can you get people to buy for you, extra points if you manage to keep your wallet or purse intact for the whole day…

    I WOULDN'T BE SEEN DEAD IN THAT
    Spot the most hideous blazer for the men, or the most outrageous outfit for the women - yes we've all seen misguided individuals wandering around in orange meringue creations, but can you spot anything worse? Mutton dressed as lamb? Who's the biggest fashion victim at the Royal.
    Much more challenging at HRR than at Royal Ascot, where bad taste rules supreme.

    HOW MUCH WEIGHT HAS SHE PUT ON!
    Wile away the hours spotting people wearing last year's frocks, even though they've put on 16 lbs and are bulging at the seams - extra points if you can correctly identify which day they wore it last year (make sure you make a point of asking)

    THE 10 CURRY CHALLENGE
    Self explanatory really, those accepting the challenge, attempt to have curry for lunch AND supper on each of the five days of the regatta. This may sound easy but participants normally fail on two counts.

    Firstly even the most hardened Thames curry club member is so smashed on one (or more)of the days that they fail to make it to the curry house or, worse still fall asleep in their jalfrezi, thus failing for not eating.

    Secondly since the curry houses are all in town, they get too smashed to walk that far, so resort to lunch in Remenham or the seafood and champagne bar.

    WHERE'S RABBIT?
    Find the rabbit, buy him a drink or a carrot and have your photo taken for hello magazine .

    SECTION 2: GOOD UNCLEAN FUN

    Now while the rabbit would never, ever condone such behaviour, never mind participate in it (cough cough), there are certain factions present at the royal who take great delight in getting up to things they really shouldn't while in the enclosures.

    It should be remembered that most of these are a lot easier to do on Saturday than Wednesday, as there's safety in numbers... so extra points if you can pull it off on Wednesday or Thursday...

    X-RATED BLAZER BINGO
    Much the same as normal Blaser Bingo (see above) except in order to cross a blazer off the list you have to not only have found someone wearing it blazer, but you have to snog them too.

    THE DECKCHAIR CHALLENGE
    Need some new garden furniture? How many chairs can you nick from Stewards without being caught.

    Record so far stands at two directors and two deck.

    CROSS DRESSING
    Find a drunk / compliant member of the opposite sex and swap clothes - more points if you do it in Stewards or Remenham. For an exciting alternative, just swap your underwear.

    LAST MAN OUT
    The "last to leave Remenham/Fawley Bar/Bridge Bar" challenge - including the 'You can't shut the bar, I'm a member of the committee' approach.

    Can successfully be combined with.

    LOST HOURS
    Get so drunk you don't remember at least 6 hrs of the day then try to work out what you did during the missing period by asking everyone you know if they saw you and scrutonising any photographs to see who you were with

    ENCLOSURE BASEBALL
    Can you get past second base in the grandstand? Use your imagination on this one - people have been known to go for full on baaaaaaad behaviour, although this was in the years when the monitors were less quick to spot things than they are now - just make sure your husband/wife or significant other isn't around. (Can be assisted by full three ? q.v.)

    THE FULL THREE
    Really no subtle way of describing this - performing a full three involves stockings, lack of underwear and complete strategic hair removal. 'nuf said. Usually done on a dare although rabbit knows people who swear blind by it You get (major) points for either
    A) performing it or
    B) persuading a friend to do it

    Proof has to be done carefully, although Rabbit knows of proof that has occurred in virtually all public areas of the regatta.

    If challenged and successful Rabbit suggests that a bottle of Champagne is (at the least) a suitable reward. Despite this, you wouldn’t catch a sweet bunny removing his fur.

    (N.B Pre-qualification on depilation nullifies a legitimate challenge as Rabbit believes that it is quite fashionable nowadays in some circles)


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