Sport. Umbagollians respect creative sportsmanship. In fact, you could say that the aim of their games is not winning, but a kind of inventive mutation. Games rarely end up with the same rules they started with, and players regularly swap from one side to the other, just to see what it's like. In the case of the Falling Hills' sport of fairigame, for instance, the players' behaviour is all-important and nobody bothers counting the score. Here are some examples of other games. We would like to thank Samara for her tireless research in this area : * The Exian sport of Difficult. Players may not touch the ball. There are two teams and you’ve got to make a goal, but without any phyisical closeness to the ball. * The Jailian Ball Game That Hurts. The BGTH is played indoors, upside-down. The ball (or whatever is being used as the ball: a pair of socks, a rock, a dead rat) is carried around the room in the players' mouths. This is one of the country's few violently competitive games. Players often lose their teeth in the mad scramble to score. *The Gum Goolooian running race known as Gradual. A Gradual race is won by the slowest competitor. Distances are always short, but it’s not uncommon to see people die of ennui before reaching the finish line. For this reason it has become something of an underground sport, not approved of by the city's governor. * The game of Hurl, commonly played by farmers in the North-West Flatlands. Each player has to find an object that will usually return to its owner, like a puppy or a bird. The winner is the person who can throw the bird or puppy the farthest without having it returned. And then, discovered by Trevon Andarosel, there's ... * Treeclimbing. A treeclimbing contest starts early in the morning, and continues all day. All participants have to choose a tree and to climb in it. The one who has reached the highest position at sunset has won. This means you have to be a good climber, but you also have to choose the highest trees. Pushing someone else off a tree isn't allowed. There are two contest types: the summer and the winter contest. In winter its easier to find the highest tree, but you have less time to climb in it, and in summer vice versa. This is a very traditional sport. Some say it even goes back to the Forty Foolish Travellers.