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Malteser Blow Football is the perfect game for football-fixated chocoholics.

Make two teams of two players each. One player from each team makes the goal by kneeling down on opposite sides of a small table so that their bottom lips are at table level; they now open their mouths as wide as possible. Their teammates stand on the other side and compete, using straws to blow a Malteser into their goal while defending the other.

Biscuit Dunking is a subject that causes much debate amongst biscuit connoisseurs; such as whether a biscuit should be dunked in a cup of tea and, if it should, which varieties are able to withstand the process best without disintegrating.

There is no authoritative biscuit-dunking body; to hold your own competition you just need each player to pick their biscuit of choice and stand by a steaming hot cup of tea. All players now simultaneously repeatedly dunk, making sure at least half of the biscuit is submerged each time. The last biscuit to show any damage wins. The radio station XFM held a World Championship Biscuit Dunking Competition in September 2007 over a three-week period. The biscuits making the final were the Caramel Wafer, Fig Roll, Digestive Caramel and the winner, the hardy Pink Wafer.

Biscuit Bobbing is a party game that is less healthy than its apple-based cousin but just as much fun and, if anything, more difficult. Place some biscuits (digestives work well) flat down on a table and then players must try to eat a whole biscuit in the fastest time without using their hands in any way. The difficulty lies in getting hold of the biscuit in the first place—a feat usually achieved by lifting it with the teeth. The game is improved immeasurably if everyone plays at once, leading to a chaotic biscuit scrum. More advanced players could try playing the game with something thinner, such as an oatcake.