★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The moon has moonquakes.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★An octopus has nine brains.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.

★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The moon has moonquakes.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★An octopus has nine brains.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.

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Keep the ball off your half. First to 5 points wins.

P1 uses A, D and W. P2 uses the arrow keys.

How to play Block volley

Block volley is a two-player beach volleyball duel with blocky players. Each side has one player who can move, jump and spike. Use your keys to run along your half of the court and jump to meet the ball. Aim your hits to drop the ball onto your rival half, and jump up near the net to spike it down hard. If the ball lands on your side, your rival scores. Play one versus one on a single keyboard or against a bot solo. First to five points wins the match.

Tips

Jump at the net to spike the ball steeply down, hard to return
Watch the ball arc and move under it early instead of reaching late
Aim for the back corners where your rival has the most ground to cover
Do not overcommit forward, leave room to chase a deep ball

About Block volley

Block volley is pick-up-and-play beach volleyball with a blocky retro look. One player a side, a bouncing ball and a net to spike over, it captures the simple back and forth of two-button sports games. Play a friend on one keyboard or a bot solo, free and in the browser.

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