Barrel Tennis

Here's another not-so half-baked idea from the zany folk at the Half-Bakery. This one's called "Barrel Tennis."

The idea: "Instead of on a table, one would play the ball in a cylinder with the same diameter as a ping-pong table’s width and with its center at about shoulder height. It would have a raised edge (net) that circled the inside circumference. The same rules would apply as far as a controlled serve and one bounce on the opponent’s side, but otherwise balls could be hit upwards, against the side, diagonally, etc."

You have to admit - there's something especially tasty about the idea of playing ping pong, or, for that matter, tennis, through a barrel. It really does add a new dimension to the sport. And I bet, depending on the construction of the barrel, the idea would sound as good as it plays as the ball ricochets against the barrel walls.

Half-baked, definitely, but deliciously so.