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The dull-witted game of Slapheads is like the human equivalent of the summerfair game of Bash the Rat (when a ‘rat’ is dropped through a drainpipe and the player has to hit it with a baseball bat as it emerges).

In Slapheads, one person stands and hold their hands—palms facing inwards—shoulder-width apart. From a standing start the second player must now quickly move their head down between their opponent’s hands and avoid being slapped. Whether it’s through fear of reprisals or slowness of reactions, the slaphead often wins and the slappee is left slapping thin air.

During play the players should wear some sort of safety helmet. Encouraging people to play old-fashioned games to help in the fight against obesity is all well and good, but it should not be at the expense of a perforated eardrum.