The Pushup Game

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Requires a deck of cards. As many people can play as want to play. The deck is shuffled and placed somewhere face-down. Players come up in turn and flip over the top card and do as many pushups as there are pips on the card flipped (ace = 1, jack = 11, queen and king -- see below). The type of pushups done is determined by the suit of the card as follows:

• Hearts - normal pushups
• Diamonds - hands make a diamond on the ground (with both thumbs and index fingers) directly below center of chest.
• Spades - hands spread wide (outside the shoulders)
• Clubs - on knuckles instead of palms (make fists with hands)

Furthermore, there are two card ranks that are special:

• Queen - flip another card and do twice that many pushups. Multiple queens also stack. e.g. Queen, 4 of Hearts = 8 normal pushups; Queen, Queen, 6 of Clubs = 24 knuckle pushups
• King - the current player is skipped and the next player must do 13 pushups of the type specified by the suit.

Play proceeds until the deck of cards is exhausted.

Notes

• This game was first introduced to camp by Stephen Liang in 2002, at the end of the first Counselor Meeting Sunday night following Orientation. What began as a simple demonstration of the game's rules turned into a marathon session in which Jack Chen, Mok-yi Chow, Stephen Liang, and Stan Liu finished an entire deck of cards. Their arms all felt great the next morning.
• Later in the week in 2002, this game was also introduced to the campers, which led to quite a few Counselor vs. Camper Pushup Games in the 2nd Floor Lounge.