It involves a giant plastic ball, which has two skins - one inside the other with air pumped in between.

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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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"If you think that it's going to rain the day before, you need to high-tail yourself down to Home Depot and get a bunch of plastic, and do just like they do at the ball parks, " said Reeves.

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It gave me a whiff of a reminder of snowball fights as a kid in Stoke Lodge park in Bristol followed by a game of football played with an orange Frido ball that got punctured in the rose bushes but then repaired by Dad smearing a hot knife over the plastic.

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