Slap Ring

How to play

1. Your turn: SLAP for a quick hit, HEAVY for a slow haymaker (stronger, but easier to react to — and if a ready guard blocks it, YOUR guard drops for their counter), or FEINT to fake one.
2. If the rival bites on your feint, they are FOOLED: the next slap that lands on them cannot be blocked and knocks back double.
3. The rival's turn: BLOCK to soften the slap (costs stamina) or DODGE for all-or-nothing — a late dodge, after the feint reveal moment, is the safest. A BLOCK locked at the last moment is a PERFECT GUARD: no knockback, stamina refunded, bonus points.
4. Watch the wind-up: heavy slaps wind up slowly, and a feint stops dead mid-swing. Block before that stop and you are the fooled one.
5. Slaps push the loser toward the ring edge — past it is a ring-out and an instant round win. First to 2 rounds takes the match.
6. Beat all six rivals to clear the ladder. Daily mode gives everyone the same six rivals today.

About

A slapstick slap duel against a ladder of six cartoon rivals. On your turn you wind up and slap — or cancel the wind-up into a feint: if the rival bites and blocks at nothing, your next slap cannot be blocked and launches twice as far. On their turn, read the wind-up: a slow, deep wind-up means a heavy slap is coming, and a wind-up that suddenly stops was a feint all along — block too early and your guard is down. Best of 3 rounds per rival; launch them past the ring edge or slap their HP to zero. Every rival has seeded habits — blockers, dodgers, feint-biters — and the exact table changes every run, so you learn each opponent as you fight.