The object of the game: To bounce the ball off whatever surfaces you can manage, and then into the cup, which will light up and make noises.

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All the work comes down to one game and the bounce of a ball or two.

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The first time I saw Cuponk, the game that requires players to bounce a ping pong ball into a plastic cup, all I could think of was drunken college parties and matches of Beirut, the game otherwise known as known as Beer Pong.

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And in the dying minutes of the game Castleford created an overlap but the bounce of the ball was unkind and it trickled into touch rather than into the path of the advancing attack.

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