What we need is a comprehensive list of all the drinking games known to dopers…
or at least that’s what I need. Well, maybe I don’t need it but I certainly do want it. Yeah, I definitely want this list.
Anyway, here’s what you do…
[list=1][]say what beverage this game is best played with (for example: soda). []then say the rules to the game. finally, if you have a funny story related to this, feel free to share
It’s only 8:00 in the morning and already you want a drinking game?
What the hell, I guess I’ve done it before myself.
My all-time favorite drinking game, and the one that will get everyone else tanked as well, is chandeliers.
It’s basically the game of quarters, ie, bouncing a quarter into the cup and drinking it, with a twist.
In our version, we have a seperate glass for each player placed around a smaller glass in the middle. The outer glasses are marked or specific to a certain player. Whenever the quarter lands in that cup, the outer one, the person associated with it drinks it.
If it lands in the middle cup, all players scramble to drink their cup as fast as possible. Whoever is last to finish drinks the middle cup as well.
Typically, in our game, the outer glasses are 1/4 filled with beer and the middle cup 1/8 filled with Rumpleminze (100 proof schnapps).
I guarentee you will go through beer and schnapps like knowbodies business.
My personal fave is “Kings,” often mistakenly referred to as “Circle of Death.”
There are two versions. I just learned a new one and I think it’s more fun, so I’ll post that.
You need a “common drink” for this game, which all players will concede to drink. Beer is the most common. HOWEVER players may drink whatever they like, as long as there is a “common drink” on hand.
Spread a deck of cards out in a circle around a large empty cup. Players sit in a circle and each draws a card in turn.
What happens with the draw is as follows:
2: give away two drinks (delegate to other player(s))
3: give away three drinks
4, 5, and 6 are mental speed races. Whoever does the specified action last, must drink.
4: thumb is placed on table in a surreptitious manner; last player to place thumb on table must drink
5: hand up, 5 fingers showing (see 4)
6: thumb on nose (see 4)
7: person “ahead” of card-drawer must drink
8: person “behind” card-drawer must drink
9: Nine is a Rhyme. Player says a sentence; each successive player must say a sentence that rhymes with it. (It’s fun to screw eachother with sentences ending in “bagel” or “orange.”
10: Social.
Jack: Categories. Card-drawer names a category, such as “colleges in Minnesota.” Each successive player must name something in that category. (Late Night Fun category: People in This Room Whom I’ve Kissed)
Queen: Questions. Card-drawer asks a question, aimed at ANY player. That player must ask ANY OTHER player a question. If someone answers a question, or if someone collapses into giggles, they drink.
King: Pour a bit of the “common drink” into the cup in the middle. He who draws the fourth king must drink whatever’s in the cup.
Ace: Make a rule.
I have more, but I’ll stop here for now.
Oh, funny stories? Cripes, I’ll get back to you.
It’s called PassOut. You shake the dice and move your tokens around the board to land on things like “Person to your left takes 1 drink” or “All players take 2 drinks” etc. The object of the game is to collect the Pink Elephant cards. They have tongue-twisters on them. When you get a card you have to say the tongue-twister perfectly, or take a drink and try again.
Anyone else have it?
I picked this one up in Sweden a few years back. As far as I can tell, it’s called “bus”.
Start with X number of people in a circle, and start with one player chosen arbitrarily. He says “one”. The next player, clockwise, says “two”. It continues until one of four conditions are met:
The game has a predictable pattern that’s the same every time - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, bus, (reverse order), 8, 9, 10, bus (reverse again), 12, 13, bus, 15, 16, bus, 18, 19, 20, bus, bus, 23, 24, 25, 26, bus, bus, 29, 30. If it makes it to the 70s, then you’ve got a string of bus bus bus bus bus bus bus bus bus bus and then 80 - it usually ends at this point, since people tend to be unable to keep track of what number in the 70s they’re at.
One Fat Hen, A Couple Of Ducks…
Some of you laugh, and some of you stare in bewilderment.
It’s called BUZZ. (Must’ve gotten lost in the translation.)
A twist on Buzz is each player plays in a different language. For example, three players, one English, one German, one Spanish (this sounds like a bad joke):
One
Swei
Tres
Four
Funf
Seis
BUZZ!
… and so on. This is best done when none of the players are fluent in the language they’re playing in!
Hmm, I think I’ve drank with all of you.
Chandiliers is one of my faves as well, and we played it the same right down to the Rumple.
beefymeg, Kings was a staple in the bar I worked at in college. Why didn’t we play this at the Dopefest? We didn’t have quite as many rules for cards, we thought the game got a bit too slow that way. IIRC we had:
7 - ahead drinks
9 - behind drinks
10 - Social
Jacks - Categories
Queens - I Never
Kings - Add to the cup (or cups)
Ace - Questions
LNO, we used to play that one in college too, right here in the good ole US of A. I think there was a different word, IIRC the game was called buzz instead of bus, and the rules were the same.
To follow up on beefymeg’s post, Circle of Death was a popular one that started many many disasterous nights. As I mentioned I bartended/bounced in college at a on-campus sports bar. It was usually pretty laid back so the employees spent alot of time drinking together while we “worked”. The rule was that everyone had to come in when they were scheduled to work, usually 2 bouncers, a bartender, and a waitress at 8PM, one more of each at 9PM, and another bouncer and waitress at 10PM regardless of the crowd, but they got free beer and half price food while they waited to actually clock in when they were needed. So, on the slow nights (bad weather, non-football sundays and mondays, tuesdays) there’d be about 6-8 people with nothing else to do in a bar for several hours with free beer. This meant we got very into playing alot of drinking games. On the nights when the GM knew it’d be dead he’d get us playing Circle of Death.
The game works like this:
Spread a deck (or more) of cards around in a circle face down. The drinkers (never play with fewer than 6 people if you hope to live) sit around the table.
The game begins when a player draws a card from the deck, he turns it face up. The person to his left then draws a card as well, if its not the same suit or face value of the first card then nothing happens and the next person on line draws. Once 2 people adjacent to each other draw a card of the same suit the drinking begins. Each card has a point value, 2,3,4,5…11,12,13,14. The next player in line ahead of the people with matching cards starts counting as fast or slow as he pleases while the players with matching cards drink until he gets to their number.
For example I draw a 6 of spades, the next player draws a Jack of spades. The next player starts counting to 11, when he gets to 6 I stop, and when he gets to 11 the other player stops.
The game gets evil when the person counting starts changing his pace, if he wants to give me a break, he can count to 6 really fast and then count from 7-11 really slow, making the other player finish most of his beer.
There are a few twists, after me and the other player finish drinking, the person counting then draws another card to continue the circle. If he draws a card of the same suit, all three of us must drink while the next person counts, and so on. There have been occasions where the entire table of 8 people all ended up drinking together.
Another twist is when two players draw the same value card, they both must drink double the value and the order reverses. This makes it so the person counting has to think about the possibility of the drinkers getting even at some point.
The final, and most deadly twist is this. If, while the player is counting, one of the drinkers finishes their beer entirely the counter must then chug his beer. So, think about this, the people drinking might drink nice and slow, and then suddenly throw back the cup in an attempt to catch the counter off gaurd, resulting in alot of chugging. Its the counters responsibility to make sure that all the drinkers’ cups are filled to at least the bottom ridge (plastic bar cups) before he starts, if he forgets, and the drinker finishes then he has to chug. When a player is told to fill up he must fill up all the way. So this adds in a little planning and beer conservation in your drinking pace.
The last rule makes things very tricky when you get a long string of same suit cards together. If a player has very little beer and a high number its hard to count that fast, since the count must be legible and he must say every number. Alos while screwing one player, you may forget that another is quietly plotting your downfall.
Its not really this confusing once you sit down, and it gets you drunker than any game I’ve ever played. Its lots of fun for us competitive types.
Omni, assemble these words into a coherent sentence:
Bring a pack of cards to the Fest Dope.
Shall I expect a repeat of the Green Mill Andy?
The Star Trek: The Next Generation Drinking Game, best played with beer.
I also played quarters a lot in university. My current friends don’t drink that much, however, so I haven’t played anything in a while.
We called it Fizz Buzz. This is how we always played:
The elected person starts with a number, which the following players must then increase by one. Every time a multiple of seven, or a number containing seven comes around, the name of the number must be replaced with the word buzz. The number four and its multiples being replaced with “fizz”. For example, starting with “1 to my right”. “2”. “3”. “Fizz”. “5”. “6”. “Buzz”. “Fizz”. “9”. “10”. “11”. “Fizz”. “13”. “Fizz Buzz”… “44” would be fizz-fizz “77” buzz buzz, and of course, “47” and “74” would be fizz-buzz and buzz-fizz, respectively. Every time anyone says fizz or buzz, the game changes direction.
Omni! How ARE you???
There definitely weren’t enough drinking games played that night. sigh. And now I’ve gone and moved 500 miles away…
Oops, sorry, that’s a hijack. Back to matters at hand…
One word-- Waterfalls. You can include them in just about any drinking game. Take beefymeg’s rules for Kings. Now, instead of making “10” a social, make it a waterfall. (A waterfall: Everyone sits in a circle. When a “10” is drawn, everyone begins drinking. The person who drew the “10” stops, so the person to his right (or left, depending on which way the game is going) is now permitted to stop drinking and so on. (However, don’t stop right away because that would ruin the point.) Best played with beer.) Just make sure your “friends” aren’t stacking the deck, sticking you at the end all the time. But I’m not bitter. Really.
This is a simple game for a large group called Boat Races.
It originated from the Ohio State and Miami (OH) University Water Ski Teams.
No fewer than 5 people (but usually up to 20 or 30) from each Uni lines up on either side of a table, both sides having equal amounts of people with equal amounts of beer as the person across from them in plastic cups (very important!).
When the whistle blows, the “start” end of the table drinks thier beverage as fast as possible, once empty they place the cup on the edge of the table so part of it sticks over, flips it up on it’s open end, and then place the cup on their head. Once the cup touches their head, the next person drinks…and so on until it reaches the end. The fastest group wins.
After several rounds, this game got quite amusing. Nudity and broken furniture quickly followed. 
Yup, Boat Races were another fan favorite, occasionally we’d get teams of 12 and more people playing during fraternity-sorority functions. It was alternatively (and more commonly) called Taps at U of I. The cup on the head was usually omitted cause otherwise it was impossible to get women to participate with the risk of beer soaked hair. One detail is that the person directly across from you is your opponent, you both agree on the proper amount of beer to have in the cup beforehand. Every player on a team can have different volumes of beer, so long as each players opponent has the same amount. Then the winning teams tells their respective opponents to fill their cups up to what ever amount they instruct, and they then have to chug.
Waterfalls were the defacto way of doing a social in Kings, thanks for pointing that out Silver. I’m always so mean when I start them :).
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meg! Ye who is neither very beefy nor very meg. Haven’t seen you around in forever, where ay been, and are ya gonna stick around and let me flirt with ya? BTW, where’d you move to? Do you have a good excuse for moving away from me?
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Get the MST3K movie “Outlaw”. Whenever they say, “Cabot” you take a drink. In about 20 minutes you’ll be so drunk you’ll think this is a great movie and you’ll wonder why they made fun of it.
I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned three-man yet. Either that or it’s only played in Wisconsin or something. Unfortuntaly, I can’t remember all the rules, but I’ll give it a try anyway. I’m sure someone out there can correct any mistakes I make.
The game is played around a table, with a pair of dice. People can use their beverage of choice. People take turns rolling the dice. if they roll a total of 3, they are then the three man, and anytime a 3 comes up on either die, or a total of 3 is rolled, they drink. Rolling a seven means the person next in the rotation after the roller has to take a drink, a ten is a social (everyone drinks), and I know there are a few others I’m forgetting. Rolling doubles gets interesting too. When someone rolls doubles, they give one die each to two people, and make up some rule for them, such as ‘low drinks high’, or whatever, the people who got the dice roll, and carry out their sentence. If someone rolls a number for which there are no rules, they pass the dice to the next person. There’s also something where if you roll I believe 5 times in a row and roll a number that there’s a rule for, you get to make up a rule, such as ‘can only pick up your drink with your left hand.’ Anyone breaking the rule drinks. As I said I just know I’m missing a few things too.
We also came up with a drinking game for the movie Gladiator. Anytime Comodus gets bitch-slapped, literally or figuratively, everyone drinks. Comodus gets slapped around a lot in that movie too.
THere are a few games we play. I used to work in a bar, so we got all sorts of games.
We used to play most stuff with spirits cause they get people drunk quicker and we all drank different things, beers, lagers, ciders etc.
One game is called Jacks. You will need 1 pack of cards, a place that serves cheap spirits and some money. It is usually best to agree a point where people can drop out, ie after they have spent £5 or £10 or something.
It can be really nasty if you get things like Baileys and Pernod cause the baileys kind of curddles. Yum 
Another game we used to play is called “The broom game”. You need one broom, and a long room. This is best played when people have had several drinks. Basically whoever’s turn it is puts their forehead on the top on the broom handle and closes their eyes. They then circle the broom as fast as they can while the rest of the people count out to ten. On ten everyone shouts “Go, go, go!” and the person has to run and touch a wall (usually at the other end of the room and run back without a) falling over b) hitting the walls c) hitting other people. If they succeed, bow down before them because they are a God. If not, they drink a forfeit.
You can also play games like Chase the Ace (card gamne) and whoever is left wit hthe lowest card drinks (if two or more, they all drink).
Working in a bar can be such fun.
Rick
World’s Easiest Drinking Game: “Weekend at Bernie’s”
Rules: 1. Watch the movie with lots of beer present.
2. Every time someone says the word “Bernie” in the movie, everyone drinks.
3. Enjoy