The story
If you went to school in India in the 1990s or 2000s, you played this on the last bench. Nobody invented it and nobody wrote the rules down. The kid next to you showed you once, and then you knew.
Pen Fight is that game with real physics and the real pens: the 045 you started with, the Gripper, the Parker somebody's father owned, and at the end of the bench, the Trimax. Eleven classmates between you and the class championship, and every match played for keeps. Win, and their pen goes into your compass box. Lose, and they are holding yours until you beat them.
- The Trimax cannot roll. Its barrel is a triangle. Every pen behaves like itself.
- The blackboard keeps the score, in chalk, next to the thought for the day.
- Win the championship and it turns around: now the class comes to take the Trimax off you.
- Your 045 can never be lost. Everything else can.
Ready-made words are in the fact sheet: a one-liner and a full paragraph. The notice board has the long explainers.
The deskround one against Bunty
The key art1200 x 630, for link previews
On a phonewhere most of it is played
The compass boxwhere the winnings go
The fixture cardstakes stated before anyone commits
The entry sheetsolo, one phone, or over a link