Ask HN: What are the best pickup basketball rules you’ve played with?

I’ve played a lot of different pickup basketball through the decades.

Different gyms always had slightly different rules.

Though there was one pickup basketball group that I still say had the best rules for pickup.

Have you experienced this?

What were those rules?

At the y I played at, we only had one full court. We played 5 on 5 to 7 all 1 pointers. What I liked though was it wasn’t you’re on till you lose, but winner stays for first game then just each new team gets to play 2 games.

Then when it got to over 16 players in the gym we switched to half court 4on4 with 1s and 2s. Same only two consecutive game rule.