Three's no longer a crowd, it's a challenge.

FuKcup is a game invented out of boredom this weekend with my two friends and me. We basically wanted to play beer pong and didn’t have enough people, so instead of doing that 1v1v1 thing we decided to make a game which is basically a crossover of cutthroat in pool with some rules that elevate the risk/reward elements of strategy games.

Each person has a rack and a fuKcup, which is that very front cup you see in the picture in front of you. Here’s the rundown:

• If you make it in your own fuKcup, each player has to take one cup away of their choosing from their rack.
• If you miss and it lands in one of your other cups, you have to take away and drink two of your own cups.
• Comparitvely, if you are shooting at someone else’s rack and it happens to go in their fuKcup, you have to take away two of your own cups (that would be a fuckup, not a fuKcup).
• If you lose your rack, you’re out (fuKcup not included in rack).
• Current champion always gets the middle rack because of the ricochet benefit.

Risk, meet reward.

Now the real fun didn’t necessarily come from the originality — it’s all pretty simple — it came from the diplomacy. If someone makes their fuKcup and you take away the cup closest to your fuKcup, you take away some risk of missing your fuKcup (thus lessening the chance of fucking yourself), but you also make it easier for opponents to get you out at the end of the game because someone would much rather shoot for a lone ranger than one close to your fukcup, that if missed could end up costing them two cups and probably the game (the fuKcup can never win a game for you, it can only lose it. the final cup of an opponent must be made, you cannot make your own fuKcup to seal a victory). There is also considerable betting and alliances to be made during the contest, adding some well-hewn shit talk.

So, there are the rules in a nutshell. We played this game a couple times this weekend and everyone agreed it was very fire, especially the name FuKcup. Try it out this weekend and lemme know what you think.