h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One typically unhealthy game is bloody knuckles.
All it requires is any round coin and a table to spin it on.

The rules are very simple. First and most important of all: the first to bleed, loses.

There are two versions of this game that I'm aware of, both requires two players.
1. Player #1 first spins the coin on a table. Player 2 attempts to flick the spinning coin to make it continue to spin. If he is successful, it is player 2s turn...and so on.
If player 1 fails to continue the coins spin, then player 2 wins a go at making player 1 bleed!
Player 1 puts his hand in a fist, with his knuckles on the table. Player 2 then puts the same coin on the table a fair distance away frm player 1s knuckls. Player 2 places his thumb on the coin, and flicks it toward player 1s knuckles (if player 1 moves, player 2 gets another go)

The game restarts until a person's knuckles starts to bleed. The player with skin intact, or as if often the case, NOT the first person to bleed is the winner. Sometimes it takes time

2. The second version is more simple and has less ambigious rules. In #1, arguments often broke out that the other person didn't spin it correctly...or he spun it off the table and didn't give the other player time to spin it..etc.

This version once again starts with player 1 spinning the coint. Player 2, using only his thumbs, must attempt to pick up the coin before it stops spinning. If successful, it is his turn to spin the coin. If not, then player 1 has a go at flicking the coin into his knuckles.
N.B. A player only has one attempt per turn to spin the coin.


This game lasted for about a week before we all mutually agreed to give it up. The dull sound as the coin crashed into someone's knuckles was just too much to take. We had to think of our bone's!
I was nicknamed 1-shot blood during this time, being the only persn who required just one shot *most people being too inept to even hit the target*. My only flaw was being too much of a malco to spin the coin correctly. To make it interesting, we didn't spin the coin in the traditional way. We used our thumb and forefinger on both hands to try to spin it....quite difficult to get it spinning well every time.

Good fun though