Slap Cup is two balls chasing each other around the table, a cluster of cups in the middle, and a slap that is exactly what it sounds like.
Cluster the cups in the middle of the table and put a splash of beer in each one. Then pick two players standing across from each other. Each of them starts with an empty cup and a ball. Everyone else stands in the circle and waits, because the cups are coming to them.
Bounce your ball into your own cup. The moment you sink it, the cup and the ball pass to the player on your left, and it becomes their problem.
Sink it on the very first try and you do not have to pass left. You can hand the cup and ball to anyone at the table. That is the only targeting in the game, and it is how you keep pressure on whoever you are trying to catch.
Here is the part the game is named for. If the player next to you is still bouncing when you sink yours, you slap their cup flying across the room. The two cups are effectively racing around the table, and getting caught is how you get slapped.
Get slapped and you grab a cup from the middle, chug it, and keep bouncing with that one. You do not get a break; you just get a fuller cup.
Every slap pulls a cup out of the middle, so the middle keeps shrinking. When the last cup is gone, the game is over. There is no winner in the traditional sense, only the two or three people who never got caught.
Slap Cup burns through cups fast, so buy more than you think you need. More printable rules, scorecards and dare decks are in the Party Pack, and the free Party Starter Pack gets you going tonight.
Playing somewhere the cups cannot fly? Replace the slap with taking the caught player's cup and passing it on. Same race, less cleanup.
Start with more cups in the middle for a longer game. The middle cluster is the clock, so its size sets the length of the night.
This game involves alcohol. Please drink responsibly. Intended for adults 21 and older in the United States.
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