Drinking Games

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, I’m completely ignorant of the world of alcohol.

Well, that’s not entirely true - I can name a bunch of drinks, I know the recipes for a few mixed drinks, and I know what ‘proof’ means, and I understand fermentation - but that’s all technical mumbo-jumbo.

But I lack practical knowledge. Recently, I have been doing some research on drinking games, and I am curious (yellow) - what are some Dopers’ favorite drinking games? What sort of drinks do you recommend for those games? Gimme the skinny, and don’t spare the details.

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Not technically a drinking game, but truth or dare can become infinitely more amusing when everyone’s drinking.

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My favorite is “Big Liar”, which I discovered in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha. It’s supposedly a game played by geisha and their patrons, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

Each person tells two stories, one the absolute truth, the other a total fabrication. The other people guess which one is the lie. If, as a listener, you guess wrong, you have to take a penalty drink. If you’re the story teller and everyone guesses correctly, you have to take the penalty drink.

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I’ve always been a big fan of I Never, because you can totally zing your friends. But this is what you really need.

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Nice. I hadn’t come across that particular list in my Googling. Any personal favorites, besides I Never? (Which I have heard also as ‘Never Have I Ever’)

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Check out this site:
http://www.realbeer.com/fun/games/
In college, Beruit (AKA beer-pong) was probably the most popular. Many a Thursday night was spent in the basement of a fraternity house tossing a ping pong ball at 9 oz cups of beer.

Asshole is a popular dorm room game involving cards and human degredation. Three-man is a similar game involving dice.

Quarters, Anchorman, Flip-cup are all popular table-top games.
There is generally one drink for drinking games and that is beer. Usually light, shitty beer. Playing drinking games with any kind of mixed drink usually leads to…unpleasentness.

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Yeah. Like I can say that when I’m drunk. :slight_smile:

I also like Three-Man and Asshole–although I can never remember how to play either.

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Ech, no… veto. Appropriate drinking game drinks other than beer.

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The pinnacle of all drinking games is my personal favorite, Beruit.
(some lower-class peons mgiht call it beer pong…they are wrong, it’s called Beruit. Beer Pong is similar, but not the same.*)

In Beruit, two teams (of anywhere from one to…I’ve sen as many as seven, but the average is two players) stand at opposite ends of a table. On the table, in front of each team, is a mass of cups, usually arranged in a pyramid formation, and the average number of cups is ten, though I have seen as few as three, and as many as 171. (Same game that had seven people a side. It was base 18 Beruit (meaning each pyramid of cups had 18 cups at the base, so each level had one less cup, so 171 cups total.)) Each cup is filled with as small amount of beer. The standard I have seen used most is ten cups per team, two players per team, and three beers per team. This equates to about 1.5 beers per person per game, though the actual amount may differ (see below)

Now, all the nitty gritty rules differ from place to place, but the basic premise is, each team throws ping pong balls (usually one for each player) at the opposing teams cups. Every time a ball goes into a cup, the oppossing team drinks that beer. When one team has no more cups left, they are the losers. Typically, the losers also drink the remainder of the winning team’s beer, but not always. Popular rule variations include:

Penalties for knocking over a beer (either with your hand or a ball)
Penalties for touching a ball in motion
“Reform” of a pyramid after a certain number of cups have been removed. Usually, in a ten cup game, a new pyramid is made at six, and sometimes three, cups. I’ve even see places that reform after every cup.
Complex rules concerning if two balls go into one cup, if two balls go in two sperate cups, whether or not you can blow a ball out of a cup, etc…

All in all, a very fun game, which takes a suprisiong amonut of skill.

(*In my opinion, beer pong is similar, but played not by throwing a ball, but hitting it with a paddle, and usually played on an actual ping pong table.)

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OPfft, if you think that’s hard, at my college, we called it “Never Ever Have I
Ever.” Most people can’t say it sober!

I remember we had an international student who’s first language was not English. When he was drunk, he would sound somethingl ike:

Never…I ever have never…done ever never…wjat?"

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Some more background - I once played Quarters, actually - but with cups of water. The idea put forth by the group being that if enough water was consumed, someone would get nauseous, and it’d be funny. I suppose. No one got sick.

I’m also very fond of the ‘media’ drinking games - ones based on cues in a TV show or Movie, and I’ve come up with a few in my time. Never gotten to try one out just yet, but soon, perhaps.

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I don’t drink beer very often myself, so I usually mix weakish drinks. Although I am usually drunk before anybody else.

Another idea is doing a Century. Simple concept: sit down and watch a 100-minute movie. Every minute, take a shot of beer. It’s a lot more than you think.

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I’ve never heard of doing it during a movie. Just sit down, get a watch, set the alarm to every minute, drink when it beeps. :stuck_out_tongue:

A variation on that is ‘power hour,’ same thing, but just one hour, not 100 minutes. Yeah, at first, it seems not so much.
“A shot of beer? That’s ahrdly any at all!”

But some quick math:

100 shots * 1.5 oz shots = 150 oz / 12 oz/beer = 12.5 beers in 100 minutes. If you only do small shots (1 oz) than it’s just 8.3 beers. Still a hefty amount in less than two hours.

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And because I just remembered it … one of the best games of all time–Flip Cup.

Drinkers form two teams, lined up on either side of a table. Each team member has a plastic cup (usually of the Solo variety, because that’s what comes with kegs in this neck of the woods). Each team member has a shot of whatever they’re drinking at the bottom of the cup, and all cups are on the table, hands off.

The first person in each line, at the go signal, must down their shot, then place their cup right-side-up on the edge of the table. Lifting only from the bottom of the cup, you must flip it upside-down before your turn is over. When the first person’s cup is flipped, the second person drinks, flips, and so on. Usually, there are four or five people on a team. It gets highly competitive, and you’re enormously drunk before you realize it.

I love Flip Cup.

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How about Ring of Death? I barely remember the rules, but it had cards arrayed in a circle with a pitcher of beer in the middle. There was something about someone saying a topic and you’d go around the circle until someone couldn’t contribute to said topic (for example, the topic is “fruit”, so you’d go around the circle saying “apple/banana/pineapple/etc.”). This “loser” would then draw a card from the circle of death and drink the corresponding number of drinks. There were wildcards, of course, and the one to avoid was the one where you had to finish the pitcher in the middle. That was a way to get way drunk, way quick.

In college, my roommate and I would make impromtu games. I’d be sitting there watching Comedy Central and he’d come in with a 6 pack, saying “okay, these have to be gone by the end of the Daily Show”. Or we’d order a pizza, and I’d come out with a 12 pack, saying “we have to drink these by the time the delivery guy gets here.”

Good times, good times.

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My favorite game has no name that I know of. I learned it New Year’s Eve from a bunch of Germans in Prague.

You put 3 of those red party cups in the middle of a table, equally spaced about 1/2" apart, on a small table.

Everyone sits around the table. Each cup is filled with about 1/2" of wine or beer (nothing harder!)

Each player puts a coin at the bottom of the palm of their hand, by the wrist joint, holds the table with the other hand, and smacks the palm of the hand against the underside of the table.

If the coin lands in a cup, the person to the thrower’s left drinks from that cup, dries off the coin, and does the same (game goes to the left). If the coin lands in the middle of all three cups, the person to the left drinks all three.

This can get going very fast, and messes people up in a hurry.

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Sounds like a variant of Quarters, Gabe.

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I used to be the Quarters Queen, but only if I was allowed to roll the quarter down my nose.

We also used to make people drink if they said “man” and that would fuck you up, man. :smack:

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Similar, yes, but sufficiently different that I think it deserves its own name.

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I am a big fan of Zoom Schwartz, mainly because it gets more fun when you play with experienced people and you don’t need cards or dice. I’ve been known to play pickup games in bars.

Also a fan of Beirut. Recently, the construction guys working on my house left a bunch of scrap 2x4s and plywood. What to do? Exactly. Beirut table. Best thing I ever built. I even made cutouts for small plastic containers of water to soak the ping pong balls in after they go off the table.