Daily catch-up: The Caucus Race, Sneedball, Numberwang, Blitzball, Mornington Crescent and Guyball

The Top 10 list of Fictional Games on Sunday had no space for some worthy contenders

Nothing happened yesterday or overnight in Jeremy Corbyn's omnishuffle, so there is not much to catch up on in politics. In which case, let the games continue.

The Top 10 in The Independent on Sunday at the weekend was Fictional Games. Cazz Pink's family were sulking because there was no Guyball, from Green Wing (above). Only because I hadn't heard of it and no one nominated it.

Other make-believe games didn't make the cut either. Josh Blacker nominated WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. Very droll.

David Head proposed Sneedball, in Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake's How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen. "It involves a ramp, a slide, a barrel, a bobble, sneeding tongs, a bar, grapples, and (among other things) dropping things off bridges into rivers and fishing them out again. It is described as being essentially 'like several kinds of fooling around'. Needless to say, little boys excel at it."

Davey Barton nominated Find the Saltine from Scrubs, Numberwang from Mitchell and Webb, the Caucus Race from Alice in Wonderland. "And of course... Mornington Crescent."

Christian Hadfield suggested Painball, from Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, the third novel of her dystopian trilogy, and Pokemon battling, which is a fictional game within a computer game. As is Chocobo Racing, from Final Fantasy, "because they’re still probably the best use you can put these big ol’ fluffy ostriches to", and Blitzball, from Final Fantasy X. "Essentially full-contact water polo in a titanic sphere of water, it’s the 'sport' that caused most people’s playthroughs of this game to stall for a good long while. Who cares about the heroic story when there’s a well-developed sporting underdog/management simulator to obsess over in your spare time?"

Blitzball was also liked by Ed Gray: a "truly epic sport".

Christian Hadfield's father Alan nominated Thud, which features in the 34th Discworld novel of that title (with an exclamation mark), by Terry Pratchett. But Wikipedia informs me that Thud, the board game, was "devised by Trevor Truran and first published in 2002, inspired by the Discworld novels rather than originating in them".

Finally, I received an email letting me know that quidditch is now a real sport. Of course it is.

My Top 10 Top 10s of 2015 were in The Independent on Sunday in between Christmas and the New Year. And the book of Top 10s, Listellany, is still available. The Kindle edition is a mere £1.89.