Press kit · Pen Fight

The game so far

counted on 1 september 2026 · updated every week

20,20,440matches played since 9 august 2026

that is a match every second, all day, every day, since the day it went up.

6,56,513people have played
2,55,892matches on the busiest day. seven days have passed a lakh.

Class records

what one player, on their own, has managed.

the longest sittingone player stayed at the desk for 5 hours 38 minutes and played 99 matches without getting up.
the most timeanother has spent 18 hours 4 minutes at the desk in all, across 473 matches.
the most opponentsone player has faced 174 different people, over 487 fights.
the longest reignjj has defended the Trimax 159 times. nobody has taken it off them.
the longest runsid won 361 matches in a row, without losing once.

Rivalries

two people who kept sitting back down.

the closest

Cven 25 – 24 yt

49 matches against each other, two and a half hours of them, and it finished one apart.

the longest

Diba 77 – 50 Sagnika

127 matches across eight days. they came back to the same desk every one of them.

Pictures

click one for the full-size file. all of them, plus the twelve pen photographs, are in the zip.

The story

Everyone who sat on a last bench played this. Two pens on a desk, you flick yours into theirs, and whoever's pen goes off the edge has lost. Nobody taught it. The kid next to you did it once and you copied him.

The part people forget is that it was played for keeps. You put your pen down, and if you lost, it was theirs. That is the whole game here. Eleven kids on the bench, the Trimax at the end of it, and nothing to win but pens.

We did not draw the pens. We photographed them, and the game reads the barrel out of the photograph. The Megatop wobbles because it was always top-heavy. The Trimax will not roll because its barrel is a triangle. A guessed colour and a guessed weight drift from the pen you actually held, and then it is not your pen any more.

The blackboard keeps the score, in chalk, next to the thought for the day.
Win the championship and it turns around: the class comes to take the Trimax off you.
Your 045 can never be lost. Everything else can.

Ready-made words are in the fact sheet. The notice board has the long explainers.