Rabbit Punch

A rabbit punch is a real thing, and it is banned. In boxing it means a blow to the back of the head or the base of the skull, the referee is told never to allow it, and throwing one on purpose costs points or the fight. This game asks you to do it about forty times in a minute and a half, to a rabbit, with a glove the size of your head.

The setup is one hat and two arms. A magician's top hat sits on a wooden table, a red glove comes in from the left, a blue glove from the right, and the clock reads 01:30. A rabbit pops out for a fraction of a second, whoever swings first takes the point, and then you both wait for the next one — one to four seconds later, with no warning sound and no tell.

What turns that into a game rather than a reflex test is the magician. He owns the hat, he rises out of it exactly the way the rabbit does, and he is dressed for it: top hat, waxed moustache, bow tie. Punching him costs 20 points, roughly twenty rabbits of work. There is no floor at zero either — a bad ninety seconds ends with a negative number on the table and the losing glove greyed out. In our own recorded run the computer finished on −9.

Who built it is the one thing this page cannot tell you. The distributor names the publisher gametrend and dates the build to 12 August 2024. The build declares a different author, apartik, and its Construct project is full of Russian object names — the save system is literally called ЛокальноеХранилище. The design predates both: Rabbit Punch was sold as a Construct 2 and Construct 3 template by a developer called Foxfin, last revised in June 2020, described then in words the game still fits — punch as many rabbits as you can and avoid the magicians. Three names, none reconcilable from outside, so the developer field here is empty on purpose.

The rabbit punch is a real punch, and boxing bans it for a reason

The blow the game is named after is a strike to the back of the head or the base of the skull, and it is illegal in boxing, in MMA and in every regulated striking sport. The reason is anatomical rather than sporting. The base of the skull is where the brain stem meets the top of the spinal cord — the part of the nervous system that runs breathing and heart rate — and it is not armoured the way the front of the skull is. A hit there does not produce an ordinary knockdown. It produces spinal cord injury, bleeding inside the skull, and occasionally death.

The rules follow the anatomy. Under the unified rules used across North American commissions the referee is instructed never to permit direct blows to the back of the head, and the response escalates from a warning to a point deduction to disqualification: an intentional foul that injures an opponent who can still fight costs two points.

The clearest illustration is also the most sobering. On 17 October 2015, Puerto Rican super-welterweight Prichard Colón fought Terrel Williams and complained repeatedly of blows landing behind his head; the referee took a point from Williams over one of them, and Williams won in the ninth by disqualification. Colón left the arena with a subdural hematoma, went into a coma that lasted 221 days and never recovered. He died on 13 August 2026, aged 33. That case is why commissions treat the back of the head as a no-go area rather than a scoring zone.

The name is older and comes from outside the ring: hunters used a short, sharp chop to the back of a trapped rabbit's neck because it kills instantly and leaves the fur intact, and boxing borrowed the term in the early twentieth century for the same blow aimed at a person. Which makes this game a small, unintentional joke. It hands you the punch, gives you the original target back, and then charges you 20 points for hitting the only human on screen.

Where the points go: the numbers behind the 90 seconds

No portal publishes these, so we measured them on the build we serve, over a dozen recorded browser sessions.

Action	Points	Notes
Punch a rabbit	+1	The single most common event; nothing else pays this reliably
Final hit on a rabbit that keeps bobbing up	+20	Measured three times: nine hits of +1, then a +20
A rabbit caught in a chain	+5	Occasional single hits paid five instead of one
Punch the magician	−20	Measured three times: 34→14, 48→28, 30→10
Punch empty air	0	No penalty at all for a swing that hits nothing
Round length	90 s	Hard-coded; the clock shows 01:30 and counts to zero
Glove reach	20% of the width	Each glove travels 32 units of a 160-unit canvas

Two things follow. Restraint is only worth it against the magician — everything else rewards swinging early and often. And a single well-worked rabbit is worth about thirty points, so the gap between a score of 30 and a score of 90 is not reaction time at all: it is whether you keep punching after the first hit lands.

Two players, one screen, no second keyboard

The two-player mode is the reason this game keeps turning up on shared-computer pages. There is no second controller and no WASD block to memorise: the canvas is cut down the middle, the left half belongs to the red glove and the right half to the blue one, and the two arrow keys mirror that split. Two people can play it on a phone lying flat on a desk with one thumb each.

It also produces an unusually level match, because the thing being tested is close to identical in most people. Simple visual reaction time in a laboratory sits around 180 to 250 milliseconds, and it is consistently 20 to 40 milliseconds slower than reaction to a sound: light has to travel from the retina through the optic nerve and the thalamus before the cortex decides anything, while sound reaches the brain stem in under ten. Rabbit Punch gives you no sound cue at all, so both players are working from the slow channel — which is why matches tend to be decided by the magician rather than by speed.

Rabbit Punch unblocked, and why it is filed under clicker

The game is a single HTML5 page: no download, no plugin, no account and no save file on a server, so it starts on a school Chromebook or a locked-down browser as soon as the page loads, and a trackpad works as well as a mouse because any click inside your half counts. Expect one full-screen interstitial ad immediately after you press 1P or 2P; once it clears, the ninety seconds run without interruption.

A word on the category, since this is the first game on our clicker shelf. Every point here comes from a click or a tap, which is why both the distributor and our feed file it that way, and it sits happily beside Slap The Rat, which asks for the same twitch with a mallet instead of a glove. But there are no upgrades, no currency and nothing that earns while you are away. If you came looking for an idle game that grows a number overnight, this is ninety seconds and a magician instead.

More reaction duels for two

If the two-player half is what you are after, the same shelf has fuller versions of the argument. Drunken Boxing puts two physics-driven boxers in a ring and makes you manage an energy bar between punches; Boxing Random hands both players a single button and changes the rules every round; 12 MiniBattles is a dozen one-button duels in a row, several of them pure reaction tests like this one. All three run on one keyboard, and none asks you to hit a rabbit.

1. Pick a side. Press 1P to take the blue glove against the computer, or 2P to hand the red glove to whoever is next to you.
2. Clear the tutorial. The word TOUCH appears over each active player's half. Tap it, and the round opens with READY? and then GO.
3. Watch the hat, not the gloves. Tap or click your own half of the screen the instant something white and long-eared appears. Left half swings red, right half swings blue; on a keyboard, ← is red and → is blue.
4. Do not hit the man in the hat. If the shape coming out is dark and wearing a bow tie, keep your hand still.
5. Read the buzzer. At 00:00 the winner is announced across the middle of the screen and MENU takes you back, with your best score under the logo from then on.

Tips from playing it:

• The top strip of the screen is dead. The band around the clock, roughly the top fifth, registers nothing at all. If your taps are not landing, you are aiming too high; anywhere from the gloves down works.
• Keep hitting a rabbit that comes back up. Some rabbits can be struck over and over. Every extra hit is worth 1, and the hit that finally puts one away is worth 20, so a rabbit you keep working is worth about thirty on its own.
• A whiff is free, the magician is not. Swinging at nothing costs nothing, which changes the maths completely: when you are unsure, swing. The only swing to hold back is the one aimed at a bow tie.
• Two players should sit, not lean. The split runs exactly down the centre of the canvas, so a player who reaches across scores for the other side.
• On a desktop, rest a finger on the arrow key. Moving a pointer buys you nothing here, because any click inside your half counts wherever it lands.