Connect Pong

My name is Waylon Ferguson and I have partnered this project with Brielle Justice. We are 7th graders attending Park Crest Middle School. We combined the popular game Connect Four with cup pong for this instructable. For our Fusion360 element, we made custom chips which are linked below.

We made this game because we wanted to play connect four but more intricate and complex. So we challenged ourselves and made this new game called, Connect Pong.

The supplies needed for this instructable are...

• 9 Plastic cups
• 18 Magnets
• Complete Connect Four game including chips, and the stand
• Ping-pong balls (at least three)
• box (we used the game box) but you could always use an old Amazon box
• sharpie
• 2 binder clips
• fusion 360
• measuring device

Gameplay

1. The player stands 5 feet away
2. both players toss a ball
3. the highest number goes first
4. The player pitches three balls into a cup
5. once made one into a cup that is your turn
6. checkers are dropped according to the number
7. if you don't make it you skip a turn
8. if "skip" player loses their turn
9. if "choose" the player chooses slot number
10. player repeat until done
11. if rows are completely filled turn the cup over
12. connect 4 wins

Rules

1. Players must toss the ball from 5 feet away
2. If you don't make any of your ping-pong balls your turn skipped and is passed to your opponent 
3. If you make two or more ping pong balls into the “choose” cup you get a “neutral” token made in Fusion360 and when you drop it it’s a yellow and a red token. 
4. You must shout “Connect four” when you get 4 in a row 
5. You get three balls to toss into a cup
6. Once you make a ball into a cup that is the end of tossing
7. To go first both players toss a ball the person with the biggest number goes first 

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The first thing you are going to want to set up the game. In order to do this first you must get your cups and the sharpie and write down row 1, row 2, row 3, ..... all the way to row 7

Next, you will get your box and shape the cups inside the box.

 Put one magnet directly into the cup and another magnet underneath the cup and the box

connect the stands to play

put everything together to be ready to set up and play