Ping Pong - With A Twist!

Last night I went over to Berea to hang out with Ben and Bobby. We played ping pong for about three and a half hours. Bobby only played for a few minutes - the rest of the time it was me and Ben.

Halfway through the evening Ben got some Mountain Dew, and I was dumb enough to drink some (which means I was up until 2:00 last night). :P

But we set our cans of dew on the corners of the table, and tried to hit them with the ping pong ball. Eventually we had drunk enough of the dew that we knew a hit would knock the can on the floor, so we stopped that!

But then we invented our own version of Ping Pong, which we had a lot of fun with. We took ten plastic cups and filled them half full of water. Then we evenly spaced them along the back edge of the table (5 on each side). And we played until someone knocked off all the cups.

The rules were simple: we played just like regular ping pong, except that serving was a little different. If you hit a cup (whether you knocked it off the table or not) you got to take the next serve. Also, if you won the volley, you got the next serve (just like killer pong).

The winner was the person who knocked off all his opponents cups.

I won the first game. Ben won the second.

We're still tweaking how the game is played. I think next time we should play with a point system...something like this:

1 point for each volley (scored just like regular ping pong)
3 points for striking a cup (but not knocking it completely off the table)
5 points for knocking a cup entirely off the table.

Of course, a game to 21 would be too short, we'd need to play to 40, or something like that! :)