Loser Buys the Water

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This section is for rounds with a clean result, the kind where the loser has to stand up and fetch the water. A round lasts from twenty seconds to three minutes, exactly one person wins, and there is nowhere to hide a draw. We accept one-against-one fighting games, games scored by rounds, and games that put the winner's name on screen when it ends. We reject online multiplayer, games with character levels that have to be ground out, games that sell items for real money, and anything where a newcomer cannot beat someone who started three days ago. Keys follow the house rule: the left player keeps W A S D and Space, the right player keeps the four arrow keys and Enter. The R key is reserved for the person who just lost, because that is the person who needs the rematch immediately. Before the first round, agree on the length of the set: three rounds, five rounds, or first to two in a row. That agreement takes ten seconds and saves the whole evening.