Shish-Buq

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Shish Buq (from Tunisian Arabic شيش-بوق) is a game invented during the summer 2005 by a group of friends of mine one night in a coffee shop in Sousse (Tunisia).
The name Shish-Buq is a compound from the Tunisian words Shish-Bish (شيش-بيش) meaning dice and Shalbuq (شلبوق) meaning a slap, so in English this game would be called "Dicelapping". The rules are simple, yet can be awfully painful, two opponents sit facing each other around a table, taking turns at rolling a die (6 faces die) and the player getting the higher roll, slaps the other one. A game is composed by rounds.
A player wins the game when he/she wins 5 rounds (so at most, there are 9 rounds : 4 vs 5) or the other player declares forfeit or is knocked out (KO) and can't play anymore.
There are some technical rules to this game, here are some of them :

• the slapping movement should start within a 40 cm distance from the other player's cheek.
• the player being slapped can't try to dodge or escape the slap, otherwise there is a penalty where the slapping is doubled.
• if the slapping commissioner (judge) doesn't approve of a slap (as in it's being too soft), the slapper player gets slapped by another person appointed by the commissioner.
• a player should approve of all the rules before starting to play. Once a game is started there is no going back.

There is a multi-player of this game, called group shish-buq where players divide into 2 equal groups and every one of them rolls a die, and the overall sum of each group defines who is the winner, then a whole group slaps the other one (pairs are made before the game). it's a more social form of the game.

Thinking about this game makes my cheeks hot and my eyes moist already ... I can still feel those hard slaps, but the point was that after a game, you feel relived, you got to slap someone (with a bit of luck, because it has happened before that a person gets only slapped .. it sucks), you're out of your civilized-self to go into some kind of liberating barbarian state once in a while.