Blow football is a table-top game popular in the

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, where the object is to blow through some kind of pipe causing a small lightweight ball to pass through the opponent's goal, as in other forms of

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. The game is often played with whatever materials are at hand, such as drinking

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s, and

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balls but is also sold as a boxed game in some toy shops. Boxed games typically contain a few plastic pipes, a ball, and two plastic goals. Some versions may include two plastic goalkeepers on sticks for the players to defend the goal with, or a football pitch laid out on a piece of cloth that is then put on a table and used as the playing surface, or even supply a rigid surface to play on, with raised boundaries so the ball cannot go out of bounds. At least two players are involved, though some sets will supply more pipes so the whole family can play. The pipes may be simple, or may have mouthpieces after the fashion of a pea shooter. Various versions of the game were produced by Spears Games, Peter Pan Playthings, J & L Randall and several manufacturers.

In popular culture

Blow football is the subject season 2, episode 1 of the British comedy Toast of London.https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/toast_of_london/episodes/2/1/

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In popular culture

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