pok-a-pok is a game that uses a ball and you can only use your hips to touch the ball. It was played by the maya in central america and it is their most famous game, which was thought to have been invented 2000 BC. It is a dangerous game because when you lose the captain gets sacrificed either by decapitation or removal of the heart, pok-a-pok was played in teams of one or two players in every major Mayan city. If there were two players in a team, they assisted each other. Also this game is still played in parts of mexico as ulama. In the maya culture, the pok-a-pok ceremony of ballgame was a cosmic ceremony associated with human sacrifice