Crazy-Cups

Crazy-Cups Rulebook

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Hold the cups gently with your fingertips. The palms or even the lower part of the fingers never come into contact with the cups. Hold the cups with all fingers.
Hold the cups from the side, not from the top so your hands don't get in the way during stacking.
When releasing a bottom cup from a stack in hand, control the dropping of the bottom cup with the last/little finger (pinky).
Don't slam the cups when down-stacking; let gravity do the work.
When forming a pyramid, make sure the cups touch each other at the edge of the base, forming a straight line for ease of stacking upwards.

Stack up and down from the same starting side. That is, if you start stacking UP from left to right, you have to return to the left to stack down from left to right.
Handling fumbles (cup/s toppling from a stacked pyramid):
1. Correct a fumble before moving on during your up-stacking phase: when you fumble on a completed stack while stacking up another stack, you have to down-stack all the way back to the fumbled stack, correct the fumble and move on again.
2. If all the up-stack moves are completed before a fumble occurs (ie, you are in the process of down stacking), you don't have to fix it. Just continue with your down-stacking.

3-cup stack	Left Hand	Right Hand
Up Stack: Start with 3 cups in a stack.		Take the top cup off and place on the right side of the stack.
	Take the 2nd cup off and stack it on top of the other 2 cups on the table.
Down stack:		Take the top cup and slide it down over the right bottom cup.
	Pick up the left bottom cup and slide it onto the other two.

6-cup stack	Left Hand	Right Hand
Up Stack: Start with 6 cups in a stack, numbered from 1 (bottom) to 6 (top). Completed stack: [6] / [3] [5] / [2] [1] [4]	Pick up next 2 cups (#2 and #3), leaving one single cup on the table (the anchor cup #1).	Pick up top 3 cups (#4 - #6).
	Place bottom cup (#2) on left side of anchor cup (#1).	Place bottom cup (#4) on right side of anchor cup (#1).
	Place last cup (#3) on top of cup #2 and anchor cup #1.	Place the next cup (#5) on top of anchor cup #1 and cup #4.
		Place last cup (#6) on top of cups #3 and #5.