Tags: #game-rules #table-tennis # Mod 5 Table Tennis Game Rules Mod 5 is a Table Tennis game created by developers at Comply365 as a way to make cutthroat more competitive. Instead of taking a penalty when you mess up (incentivizing conservative play styles), you gain points for hitting winners (incentivizing aggressive play styles). ## Goal - Earn points to eliminate all other players. ## Setup - At least 3 players are required to play. It's generally best to be played with 5 or more players (there are better games to play with fewer players). - One player should be standing at each end of the table, and other players should distribute themselves around the table as evenly as possible. - Everyone will need their own paddle. ## Play - One player at the end of the table serves the ball and then rotates counter-clockwise out of the way. The player on the opposite end returns the ball and then also rotates counter-clockwise out of the way. Players rotate around the table to continue returning the ball to each successive player in the rotation. - If you return the ball and the person who is currently on the receiving end does not return it successfully, you get a point. - The player who failed to serve or return the ball successfully will serve the ball next. - If you fail to serve the ball correctly, you lose a point. - A successful serve that hits the net will not incur the loss of a point, but should be re-served. - When a player accumulates any multiple of 5 points, all players must announce their score to determine what the lowest score is. All players who have the lowest score are eliminated. - If the player who accumulated a multiple of 5 points is among the players with the lowest score, they may "plead the fifth" and they will not be eliminated. - If a player reaches a multiple of 5 and then loses points to drop back under that multiple, and then gains points to reach that multiple again, no players are eliminated when they reach that same multiple again. - If only 3 players remain: - The person who is not serving/receiving needs to be up next after the person who is serving. If this is not the case, the player who is up to serve should skip ahead and the player after them should serve instead. - If only 2 players remain: - Players no longer rotate. - Serve should alternate back and forth between the two players.