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   I learned the Cup Game in college. I don't know what it's actually called or where it's from. It's essentially a group game (ala New Games), with the added problem (benefit?) that it can be very annoying to anyone not participating. The pattern of clapping and manipulating the cup is a 4-beat, 4-stanza phrase for a total of 16 beats. Since the end of each phrase has each participant passing their cup to the person to their right and receiving a new one from the left, it's best to sit in a circle to play. Note that, when this game gets going, it can be very easy to slip and drop a cup or bang one too hard, so please do not use glass glasses! You will seriously injure someone. The best way to learn it is through demonstration, so I've included MPEG movies of me demonstrating the cup game. There are both small and large versions available. The view from the front is clearer, but harder to follow because it's a mirror image of what you will do. The "at speed" vidoes are at the normal speed we usually played (rather than the other two, which are at a slower "teaching speed.")
If you are musically inclined, you will note that the beat pattern (click hear to listen to just the beats (29K)) is four stanzas of four beats each. In the map of the beats below, the column with all the "/\" signs represents the cup: The mouth of the cup should face the wide end of the symbol, and the cup will be horizontally relative to your body as it is relative to the column.
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