This is a game with a bit of an Aussie flavour - well, we are a weird mob!

WOMBAT TABLE TENNIS

Wombat table tennis is very similar to traditional table tennis with one major exception. A small wombat is used instead of a ball.

THE TABLE
The table is rectangular, 9 foot in length by 5 ft in width. It is made of any material that will give a uniform bounce of not less than 8 3/4 inches and not more than 9 3/4 inches when a regulation wombat is dropped from a height of one foot above the surface. The playing surface shall be preferably dark green, and matt, with a white line 3/4 inch wide along each edge.

The playing surface is divided into two courts of equal size by a vertical net running parallel to the end lines. The net is 6 feet long and its top along the whole length is 6 inches above the playing surface. Another net being 6 inches high covers the perimeter of the table. This net is to keep the wombat from running off the table during a game.

THE RACKET
The racket may be of any size, shape or weight.

THE WOMBAT
A wombat is a marsupial found in Australia. Young common wombats are used only. Use of the endangered Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat of Queensland for table tennis is strictly forbidden.

SERVING THE WOMBAT
At the start of the serve, the player shall insert his hand into the wombat's pouch above the level of the playing surface, and behind the server's end line.

The wombat and the racquet shall be above the level of the playing surface and behind the end line of the server's court or an imaginary extension thereof from the last moment at which the wombat is stationary on the palm of the free hand until the wombat is struck in service.

The server shall then project the wombat near vertically upwards pulling his hand out of the pouch without imparting spin, so that it rises at least 6 inches after leaving the palm of the hand.

As the wombat is then descending from the height of its trajectory, the server shall strike it so that it touches first his own court and passes directly over the net or around or under the projection of the net and its supports outside the table, touches the receiver's court.

If, in attempting to serve, a player fails to strike the wombat while it is in play, he shall lose a point.

POINTS
Points are awarded the same as in regular table tennis with the following exceptions:
A player shall lose a point if :
He obstructs the wombat.
If the wombat urinates on his court.
He strikes the wombat twice successively.
The wombat runs off the player's court.
The wombat bites the player.
The server has unnatural acts with the wombat.