Lose most games, it hurts your feelings.
Lose THIS game, it REALLY hurts.

Somewhere out there sits the world’s nastiest game designer. One dark night, he (or perhaps she) (or perhaps IT) came up with Lightning Reaction. A truly sick and disturbing game.

If you just look at it, it’s kind of cool. Lightning Reaction has a very high-tech, sci-fi kind of design to it. But once you play it, you’ll realize how twisted it truly is.

Here’s how Lightning Reaction works — Anywhere from two to four people can play at once. You remove a handle from the base and get ready. When you press the button in the center, a red light pulses and suspenseful music plays. As soon as the red light turns green, you press the red trigger button as quickly as possible. If you’re the slowest player, you will get rewarded with a painful electric shock. If you were faster than your opponents, you can simply laugh as the loser screams in pain.

It sounds simple, but the suspense of waiting for the light to change is excruciating. You’ll be tempted to press the trigger early… but don’t! If you press it before the light changes, you get an electric shock and lose the game.

When the first shipment of Lightning Reactions came into the Stupid Warehouse, everyone stopped what they were doing (goofing off) and tested them out. We all got some good jolts, but agreed it was a hell of a party game. (Packer Michelle was scared to play, but at the end of the day, she took one home for a party.)