Throw Up Your Chops!
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This is a new game that Kim and I have invented for power outages, camping trips, and days when getting out of bed seems way too fricken hard. It’s called Throw Up Your Chops!
Instructions:
- Throw up your chops! As in, raise your hand as if you were about to strike your friend with a Karate chop.
- Hold your fingertip to theirs and count down from 3, at the end exclaiming, “CHOP SUEY, BITCH!” or something similarly chop-related. The battle now begins.
- Poke the opposing Chop. With the tip of your chop, attempt to strike the other player in the front or back of their hand (or, chop). Strangely, you don’t want to chop their chop, just stick with the poking.
- Eventually, the laughter caused by constantly arguing and referring to your hand as a “chop” will induce vomitting in one of the players. This is the Throw Up part of the game, and it means that you have lost.
Rules:
- You must poke, not chop the opposition.
- Poke the chop in the front or back, between the wrist and first knuckle. This is the “yes chop zone“
- When the tip of your chop meets the opposing chop-tip, a point is scored for neither player. This is called a “faux chop no“, and both players must say it.
- Try not to invent any more rules of your own, as a lot of the fun comes from arguing about chops.
Not only does this pass the time well, but it’s really the best way to settle any dispute. Forget all of the games you knew in your childhood, this is the one your kids should be playing, and you must master it to teach them. Go on, find a partner and Throw Up Your Chops!