article_snippet: Known as 'toques' - Spanish for 'touches' - A drinking game popular in Mexico City has seen a recent surge in popularity through Mexico City, and has seen players' nights-out cut short by urgent visits to the emergency room. '
article_snippet: Electricuting: Javier Rodriguez has been offering drinkers the chance to play 'toques' for 35 years .
article_snippet: a game of toques starts slowly, and the current noticeably takes the shortest route through the body: along the inside of the forearms, up through the armpit and across the upper back if a game of toques is played the traditional way – holding a metal handle in either hand.
article_snippet: I woke up the morning after I played toques, and I felt like my tongue was burned,' said Oscar Gonzalez, a Venezuelan marketing consultant who moved to Mexico City last year.
article_snippet: When played in a group, the drinking element of toques becomes more prevalent, as the person who breaks the chain first is often punished by having to drink shots of tequila.
highlights_snippet: Toques' - touch in Spanish -  sees people electrocute people for fun .
  