We just made up this one while watching the extended cut of “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.”
Take small sips for:
Nightmare Fuel
Good Guy Gets Hurt (sequence of blows for a Terminator)
Liquid Metal
Archaic Technology
Major T1000 Injury (losing parts, huge gashes)
Terminator POV
Vehicle Does Something Improbable
Shit John Connor Says (that would be equally at home in the mouth of Bart Simpson)
John Connor Does Something Stupid
Iconic Arnie Lines
Crowning Moment of Awesome
Option for high alcohol tolerance players: finish your drink for “Crowning Moment of Awesome.”
I wish we could remember the one we made up for the Winter Olympics a few years back. The rules I remember include “sappy backstory” and “so-and-so REALLY wants this one.”
It is said that the writers of The Bob Newhart Show became aware of the game’s popularity and deliberately worked multiple instances of characters saying “Hi, Bob!” into each show.
Every time either phrase is sung, that team drinks. People start out confident and fun, but when that first chorus hits, it gets intimidating. It’s best played with about three or four beers per person.
It’s especially fun at a bar with a jukebox because strangers will even get in on it.
Array cards, face-down, in a circle around a central unopened beer can.
Take turns going around the circle, each person pulling a card. Used cards are inserted under the tab of the beer can. Whoever pops the top has to drink the whole beer.
Cards have the following properties:
2 - “You”. Select another player to drink.
3 - “Me”. The person who drew the card drinks.
4 - “Floor”. All players must touch the floor (or at least point down to the ground), last to do so drinks.
5 - “Guys”. Males drink.
6 - “Chicks”. Females drink.
7 - “Heaven”. All players must point up, last to do so drinks.
8 - “Mate”. Theoretically, here you are supposed to pick another player to be bonded to throughout the rest of the game - meaning if that person drinks so do you and vice versa. In practice, this gets forgotten (at best) after a few turns, so my friends often change it to ‘Social’ where everyone drinks.
9 - “Rhyme”. Bust a rhyme, either in a sentence or a single word, that the players then go around adding onto until someone cannot think of another original rhyme in time.
10 - “Categories”. The player who drew the card suggests an overall category, and players must then go around citing examples of that category. Things such as ‘auto manufacturers’, ‘sexual positions’, ‘types of beer’, ‘nouns’, etc
Jack - “Never Have I Ever”. All players put up three (or 5 fingers). Players then go around saying things they haven’t done, but think the others have. For example, when I went to Penn State it was popular for whomever to say “Never have I ever been from a state other than Pennsylvania” at which point I would drop a finger. First person to lose all fingers drinks.
Queen - “Questions”. There’s at least three highly distinct ways to play this one, my favorite is whoever pulls the card hides it (as best as possible, anyway). At any time later in the game, though, if the person with the hidden Queen asks another player a question and they answer with a statement, the other player drinks. If s/he responds to the question with a question of his/her own, the Queen-hider drinks. (Even writing that confused me, but it’s simple in practice).
King - Make a rule. Examples may include no cussing, no saying ‘drink’, ‘drank’, or ‘drunk’, must drink with opposite hand, king may merely point to players to make them drink.
Ace - “Waterfall”. Whoever drew the card begins drinking. All players must start at this time. The player who drew the Ace may stop at any time. When s/he does, the player to his/her left may also stop drinking at any time. Or he may choose to keep going, just to be a prick to the players at the end of the chain. It proceeds all the way down the line like this.
12 or so years ago I was at a hash camping weekend. Someone found a playground ball lying around and 20 or so people circled up and started kicking it around. It quickly devolved into Drink Ball where people had to drink for kicking it out of the circle, asking if they could play too, or any other dumb reaason. People had a lot of fun pointing to other people and commanding them to drink.
In college we used to play Whiz, Bang, Jism. Everyone stood in a circle and there was an invisible ball floating torso-high. You whiz the ball to the person next to you, bang the ball back where it came from, or jism it across the circle to your partner on the other side. You can whiz a whiz, bang a bang, and jism a jism, but you can’t bang a jism.