Wizard Gizzard is played using magical devices that appear as boxes with funnels protruding from the at an angel. These devices are used by instructors to help student-mages practice their aim with magical rays. When the top of a "wizard gizzard" is struck, it shoots a sphere made of magic out of its attached funnel. The sphere dissipates whenever it touches anything--a ray, a creature, or a hard surface, for example.
These minor magic items have a short life span, and as they age, they begin to emit loud clucking noises when they shoot their spheres. Students joke that the spheres begin to look like gizzards, hence their name. Every term, students collect cast-off wizard gizzards that have grown too unpredictable for classroom use and then use the wizard gizzards in the game of the same name.
Rules. The rules are simple: lob a sphere from the wizard gizzard and have the sphere land inside the bucket on the floor. The game takes one minute to play, and the character who lands the most spheres in the bucket during that minute wins the game.