The drinking game thread

I’ve played entirely too many games in my chequered college career. These are the version I played in college, but the rules to other versions can be found on PartySchool.com’s guide to drinking games.

Up the River, Down the River (a/k/a Up and Down the River, a/k/a “Abuse the shit out of someoneone all in the guise of entertainment”)

Fun for four to six players. Deal four cards; face up in front of each player. The ‘dealer’ then deals the remaining cards one at a time, laying them into four piles from left to right. If any of the players has the matching card as they go “up the river”, they give 1, 2, 3 or 4 drinks away to any of the other players, depending on where the card falls in the four piles. After the fourth card is dealt, You’re now going “down the river” and instead of giving away drinks you now take 4, 3, 2 or 1 drink as the cards are laid atop the piles. Repeat as needed.
Pyramid (a/k/a “You think I’m bluffing, dipshit?” a/k/a poker for drunks who can’t add)

Deal four cards to each player, face down (and for God’s sake, don’t let anyone else see your cards). Deal a pyramid of cards face down, each row will correspond to the number of drinks to be given away. (If you go beyond 4 rows or have more than four players, you may want to use two decks of cards.) As each card is flipped, a player (any player) may tell any other player to take a drink, whether or not they have that card in their hand or not. The other player may ask to see the card, however. If the card cannot be produced the player who ‘gave out’ the drink must drink double the number at stake. If the card is produced, the person attempting to call the bluff must drink double. If someone’s bluff is called and they turn the card in question over, it is replaced by a fresh card from the deck.

3-7-11 (Drunken Craps - Central PA regional version)

Two dice and six or eight people when combined with enough ethanol to float a small barge can be an entertaining combination. The “shooter” rolls the dice and hopes for a) a combination on the two dice that add up to 3, 7 or 11 or b) doubles (besides snake eyes). If one of those combinations do not result, the dice are passed to the next player. If the shooter does roll a a 3, 7 or 11, his or her turn continues. If doubles results, the shooter picks one of the other players who must pick up one die and try to ‘match’ the remaining die. If the challenged player fails to match the die, he or she must drink the number of drinks that show on the die he ro she rolled. If there is a match, the original shooter must then pick up the die and try to match. If the match is unsucsessful, the shooter looses his/her turn and must drink double the number on the die. If he matches it goes back to the challenge player, etc. etc. Two exceptions to the doubles rule exist: snake eyes (double ones) means the shooter looses his or her turn and must drains the glass; boxcars (double sixes) means a social and everyone drinks and the shooter rolls again. Trust me, it’s not as complicated as it sounds. (or perhaps I’ve just played it too many times).

Bullshit

Every player gets to pick their very own species-specific type of excrement. The person who’s chosen to start uses the generic opening, “I was walking down the road and stepped in some _______shit,” inserting a specific type of animal in the sentence. The person who’s species has been named must respond with “Bullshit!”, and the original player asks “Who shit?” At this point, the chosen player must come up with another person’s species. The new chosen player responds with “Bullshit!” and the previous player takes over the position of the original starter. As each player chosen names an animal, another person is drawn into the web until someone makes a mistake and must drink. Stumbling over the phrasing counts as a mistake as does naming the wrong species of animal shit or not realizing when your animal has been named.

Here’s the description from PartySchool.com’s website:

This is one of those games that isn’t much fun until the beverages have been flowing freely. But ones things get a little fuzzy in the minds of the participants, it can be highly amusing.

Bus/Buzz/Fizz-Buzz

We called it Bizz-Buzz and the way we played seems to have combined the various versions already discussed.
Threes and multiples of three were replaced by bizz, and the order reversed;
Sevens and multiples of sevens were replaced with buzz, again with the order reversing;
Numbers containing 7 as one of its digits are replaced by bizz-buzz and there is no reversal of the order.

(We liked to drink a lot at our school, and we weren’t very good at math, it was a liberal arts school.)
So, who’s going to bring the dice and cards to the NYC Dopefest?

We played Beer Die.

Think Quarters, but with a single die instead of the quarter. Someone once sat down to write out the rules, but it became huge, and no one played by the ruled once they got to drinking. :stuck_out_tongue:

We also played Third Man. Had a lot of fun with that one. :slight_smile: Of course, these were up in Maine, where there were long, cold winter nights, and not too much to fill them up, beyond drinkin’ and fornicatin’. :stuck_out_tongue:

We played Think While You Drink. I have heard several games go by this title (not too creative, eh?) but we played like this:

Players sit in a circle. First person says the name of a famous person, i.e. George Washington.

Second person has to say another name, with the first letter starting with the first letter of the previous name’s last name, i.e. Willie Mayes.

And so on. If you say a name with double letters, like Marilyn Monroe, the order of play reverses.

If don’t have a name to say immediately, you have to drink until you think of one. This game is harder than it sounds.

My favorite drinking game wasn’t actually a drinking game, it was more like Drinking Performance Art. It involved finding at least three other people who know all the words to REM’s It’s the End of the World as We Know It. Each person started with 2 glasses of beer, and three shot glasses of vodka (or the liquor of your choice). We invented all sorts of things that matched up with the various lines of the songs … passing a beer to the right, a shot to the left, getting up and changing places, taking a sip of beer, doing a shot … when executed properly, it was a thing of beauty.

Well, the easiest way to find some games, is to go to barmiester.com
This was my contribution.

This game was created by the Ohio State University Ski Club, although the club itself does not condone the excessive drinking of alcohol in any way. :smiley: It is best played on a beach.
You will need 10 beers per person, or as many cups and a keg and at least two poles, about 4 feet high. Place the poles in the ground, at least a few feet apart, since people will be “dinging” around them.

The contest is as follows:

At the start, everyone chugs a beer.

Run about 20 feet, parallel to the ocean, to the poles, bend over and place your forhead on a pole, and spin around it 5 times, saying “ding” after every rotation.

Turn right from here, run out into the ocean (which should be about 20 feet) until you are at least knee deep.

Turn right from here, run about 50 feet through the water.

Turn right from here, run out of the water until you are about even with the starting point again.

Do 10 jumping jacks.

Crab walk (facing upwards, walking with your hands and feet) or Bear crawl (same as the other, but with your butt in the air) back to the starting point.

Stand up.
This is one lap of ten. The winner is the first to finish.
Optional rules:

If you throw up (and you will), you lose that lap.
If you projectile vomit (exorcist style) you pick up a lap, but only if you are running while doing it.

Heh. You just named that one that I was going to…

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hey wow, whaddaya know…

a thread about drinking games, sitting RIGHT ABOVE my thread about what drinking did to my family!
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50708

think 2ce before you get smashed.

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No one has mentioned Presidents and Assholes yet? Strange. The game is loads of fun as long as you dont play with absoulte sons-of-bitches. With a small group of friends it is my favorite drinking game.

Works this way:

  1. Deal out a deack of cards completly. Dosent matter if it is uneven.

  2. 3s are low, Aces high,m twos trump

  3. First player plays a card or up to four cards of hte same value (i.e., 4 sixes, 2 kings)(any card, but low is best)

  4. Next player must play A) a card with the same or greater value and B) at least as many cards as the person before them. (i.e., you must have 3 sevens to beat 2 or 3 sixes)

  5. If you can’t or won’t play, you can drink instead.

  6. If a person plays the exact same combination as the person beofer them (one ace on one ace, or 3 fours on three fours)the next person is skipped and must drink.

  7. Twos clear the entire pile, and the person that played to two starts the pile over.

  8. If no one can play on a card/combination of cards (everyone drinks instead), the cards are removed and a new cycle starts with the person that played last.

9)First one out of cards wins. Game goes on until people are ranked (winner-president, 2nd place VP, third Secratary, 4th treasurer, last Asshole. Posistions can be made up as needed)

Second round, players are allowed to lord over everyone below them, with asshole at the bottom of the pile. “lording over” ussually means “Drink”, as in “Who dealt me this shit? Drink!” or “You skipped me! Drink!” The rapid turnover insures that no one is too sadistic–payback is a bitch.
Traditionally, the asshole has to fetch drinks and ask permission ot use the restroom.

I Never… can be played with any drink.

Players sit in a circle (or some loose construction thereof) and take turns completing the statement “I never [insert action here]”. The statement must be true for the player speaking. Everyone who has done the described action takes a drink. If you get caught skipping a drink, you have to take 2 drinks. If the speaker is caught in a lie, he/she takes 3 drinks (and no one else needs to drink).

This game is how I found out my sister has a tattoo. This game is how I found out many things I did not want to know about my mother.

I Never was played at one of the ChiDopes, with different rules that I don’t remember, other than the part about the statement being true for the speaker didn’t seem to be mentioned.

Hey Demo, are you a Cardinal?

We called Think While You Drink, Famous Names (that’s real creative huh). One rule we had for this game was you couldn’t reuse a name for the whole night. Also, to be Famous, the majority of people playing had to have heard of him/her.

Ok, 2 games that do not necesarily promote drinking, but are way fun to play AFTER you’ve been drinking for a while…

Cops & Robbers
This game goes by a couple other names, but this is what I call it.
Take a deck of cards and remove only the number of cards that equal the number of players. Set the rest of the deck aside.
In the small stack that’s left, there must be exactly one Jack, and one Ace. The rest of the cards can be whatever.
Each player gets one card. Look at your card. If it’s a Jack, you are The Robber and you must surreptitiously wink at one other player.
If your card is the Ace, you are The Cop and it’s your job to find The Robber, the winker.
Much silent hilarity ensues as everybody stares slowly at everyone else. Everybody becomes very conscious of their blinking, as an awkward blink can be misconstrued as a wink.

Anyway, whoever gets winked at, turns over their card and says “the deal has been made.” (Strategy often dictates you wait a decent interval after being winked at, so as not to immediately denude the winker.)

The Cop, then, has to guess who did the winking. IF THE COP IS THE ONE WINKED AT, the Robber loses automatically. He is chastised for “winking at the wrong guy” and must slam his beer.
IF THE COP CAN’T GUESS WHO DID THE WINKING in like 3-4 tries, the he must slam his beer.
It’s fun to try to guess who is brave enough to wink at whom. Fun for single folk to play together.
Suck and Blow
Ok, you must have equal numbers of guys and girls for this one. But, IF YOU HAVE MORE GUYS THAN GIRLS, the guys must all be good friends and the girls must be especially good-looking. Vice-versa if you have more girls than guys.

Everyone sit in a circle. Actually, standing is better. First person places a card on her mouth and “sucks” to keep it there. She then turns (still sucking) to the next player. Once they both have control of the card (between their lips), the first player “blows” as the second player “sucks.” In this manner the card is passed around the circle.
If you drop the card, you must kiss the person you were passing it to (or receiving it from). If you drop it while not really facing either person, you just kiss whomever is cuter. :slight_smile:
Here the fun comes when players who are drunker than others “accidentally/strategically” drop cards. Or when they go to the bathroom and then reappear at a different point in the circle. hahahaha.
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Omni -
The hubby and I moved to Minnesota. Honestly, we don’t remember why. :stuck_out_tongue: I’ve been in transition for the last few months and haven’t been to the board in a while - hence my dropping off the Omniradar. ANYway, glad to see you haven’t changed. Ok, now back to your regularly scheduled drinking thread.
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Despite above claims to the contrary, the Original Boat Race is from Oxford, England. I can vouch for this, as, in the Jesus College Magazine of 1926, Boat Race is described as a drinking game of “at least 50 years’ standing.” Furthermore, the Boat Race is the traditional drinking game during the inter-college Boat Races during Eights Week, which explains its title.

History lesson over. Now for the Original Rules.

The long dining hall tables at most Oxford colleges seat approximately 25 on each side. Each side of the table forms a team. Each of the ~50 people on each side is provided with a full glass of wine (usually the college claret). At a given signal, the two opposing students at the “top of the table” (i.e., the two seats closest to High Table) drain their glasses. When the glass is empty, the student puts the glass on the table in front of him/her, upside down. This is the cue for the next student to start drinking. Each student drinks in continuation to the “bottom of the table”–the side finishing first is the winner, and can ask for a “forfeit” from the other side. (When I played, the forfeit was that the student at “top of the table” had to eat a mince pie that had fallen on the floor and that someone had stepped on. Charming, those Oxford students.)

This game can also be played “Up and Down the River”–i.e., down the table once and then back up again. (This makes for 100 glasses of wine, or about 12 bottles, which tells you something about the amount of booze which flows at the typical Oxford college dinner.)

So, it’s not an Original Boat Race unless you do it with wine. My suggestion of doing it with G&T was turned down at the last dinner I attended.

Yes, sorry for any misunderstanding. I simply meant that I witnessed these Boat Races at the Ohio State University Water Ski Team parties is all. I was sure there was a much older, traditional origin…I just never researched it. Thanks Duke! :smiley: I just can’t picture these H2Oski kids drinking wine though…

And Asshole is one of my favorites! I was hoping someone would post the rules for it, because in my years I’ve completely forgotten how to play, but I’ve always remembered how much fun it was!!! :smiley:

Credit where credit is due. This game should still be called “BOB”.
Make your Mark!

1 bottle of Maker’s Mark Whiskey
1 felt tip pen
2-3 players(any more=another bottle)

Rules

  1. Take a pull off the bottle(Make your “mark” on the amount of Whiskey in the bottle)

  2. Make a mark on the Label with the pen.(Any Mark, any design…creativity is encouraged)

  3. Pass to the next person who repeats steps 1 and 2

Repeat until the bottle is gone.

This works well for passing time on a slow day of ice fishing… I recommend having someone else drive though.

AKA “Hi Bob.” This game also works well while watching “He-Man” and, for a really quick buzz, “The Smurphs.”

I can’t believe Sledman posted to this thread and didn’t give the rules to a game that he invented! I guess I’ll have to do it.

All F*cked Up
You’ll need an ordinary deck of playing cards and a lot of beer.

One person is chosen as the dealer. This person then deals ten cards to another player of their choice. The cards are then turned up one at time, with the following results:

-2,3,4,6,7,8,and 9’s are nothing (good cards for the person who was dealt too.)

-Jack - the player takes one drink and is dealt one additional card.

-Queen - the player takes two drinks and is dealt two additional cards.

-King - the player takes three drinks and is dealt three additional cards.

-Ace - the player takes four drinks and is dealt four additional cards.

The player must keep turning the cards (and taking drinks where required) until they have exhausted all the cards that were originally dealt to them, and the additional cards dealt them as a result of having turned up any facecards. Then they become the dealer.

Sometimes a player can get out easy, with no drinks/extra cards in their first ten, or only a couple. The first time sledman and I played I went through the whole damn deck! (40 drinks)

We have added other rules as well, to keep the other people involved:

-If the player goes through all ten original cards without a facecard, everyone else must finish their beer.

-If a player turns up a 5, they can give any two of their unturned cards to another player. That player then must turn the cars over in a one by one manner until theirs are gone before the giver has to start flipping cards again. If they turn up a 10 they can give away 4 cards in the same manner.

Believe me, the name of this game is appropriate. Three of us killed a case in somewhere around an hour’s time playing this.

Well, many of the ones I know (and many I don’t) have already been posted. Except One Up One Down:

The goal of the game is to correctly determine if you should say ‘Two Up’ ‘Two Down’ or ‘One Up One Down’.

This games works best if at least half the people know the secret. The secret is that you are telling people where your hands are relative to the table.

Someone starts, preferably someone who knows the secret. Plays passes clockwise. If a person says the wrong thing, they must drink. Once people figure out the secret, the goal is to confuse the remaining people by counting glasses, checking their watch, asking about moon phases, whatever. Really try to convince the remaining dupes that there is a pattern when there isn’t.

Near the end, you can start giving huge hints, like by waving one hand in the air “One Up” and then waving the other one down low “One Down”

We had someone who couldn’t get it at all even with the big hints.

My best friend played this at my wedding reception (no alcohol though) and completely stumped my friend who is in Mensa. So, Mensa is no guarantee.

Mine is “Grinch”, appropriately enough, since the season is upon us. During the “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” cartoon, everyone holds a container (can, bottle, glass, whatever) of the drink of his/her choice. Take a drink everytime you hear the word “who”. During a couple of the songs, you may havet to fake it or risk alcohol poisoning.

Damn, looks like we played the wrong games at the ChiDope…

beef, congrats and good luck in Minnesota (Minnesota?). Let us know if you’re ever back in town, we need excuses for ChiDopes.

Hmmm, I’m not quite sure how to take that ;).

Others I’ve played frequently:

Asshole, same as Presidents and Assholes which has been mentioned, the only twist I see is that you can skip twice in a row, for example player 1 plays a 3, player 2 plays another three, this skips player 3 who must drink, player 4 plays another 3, this skips players 5 and 6 who both must drink. Also it someone plays 2 fives and the next person plays 2 fives, the person skipped must drink twice. Finally if 4 cards of the same value are laid on top of each other its a social (ie 4 consecutive players play 1 six, 2 players play a pair of 5s in a row, or a player plays 4 of a kind.). We also occasionally played that the asshole had to give the president his 2 best cards, and the vice asshole had to give the VP his one best card. This rule usually made it harder to switch positions. I think it’d be more fun with more parity, but this is how we play in Illinois.

I Never…, lets face it, this is basically #straightdope chat.

3-man except I’ve never met 2 people who use the exact same rules.

Drinking games! I love drinking games! I used to carry a deck of cards and a pair of dice in my purse during college, if that tells you anything. In fact, people still ask me if I have a deck of cards with me.

I’ve played most of the games mentioned here. It’s funny how these games are known all over the country, and the rules really aren’t that different. The only one I can think of that wasn’t mentioned is “Oh Fuck”. Everyone sits in a circle, preferably around a table. You pick out a name for yourself, with “fuck” being the second part of the name. For instance, easy(fuck), butt(fuck), slow(fuck), crazy(fuck), etc.

Once everyone’s name is known, the game can begin. Raise your hands above the table and in unison, you say (while slapping the table and then your hands to each syllable, to a rhythm):

  • (your name)
  • no fuck
  • must’ve been a
  • (pick a name)

Say I’m Easy Fuck. I would say, “Easy Fuck, no fuck, must’ve been a Wild Fuck”. Then whoever is Wild Fuck would have to start in without missing the beat. Obviously, whoever screws up has to drink. Hmmm, this game is a lot easier to teach in person. Oh, and if there are noise worries, don’t play this one. We got busted by the cops once from this game…

boli, we always play one similar to your “Oh Fuck”. It’s called Thumper and is played basically the same way, except instead of names you use hand gestures. For example, a guesture could be the peace sign, giving the finger, scratching your head, picking your nose, squeezing your breasts, etc.
It goes like this (it can get quite loud):
Everyone thumps their hands on the table and the “starter” person says “What’s the name of the game?”
Everyone else says “THUMPER!”
Starter “How do you play it?”
Everyone “FAST!”
Starter “HOW do you play it?”
Everyone “REAL FAST!”
Starter “Why do you play it?”
Everyone “To get fucked up!” said in cadence with unison thumping

Then the starter does his own hand signal and then someone else’s. Then that person does his own and someone else’s. Continue until somebody screws up. (ex. Peace sign does his own and then squeeze boobs…squeeze boobs does own and then pick nose…pick nose does own and then does what appears to be a combo of scratching head and peace sign, in which case he has screwed up and has to drink)

Great fun! I highly recommend it.

Oh lord, I haven’t played a lot of stuff since college…all of these are best with beer or a mixed drink.

I’ve played:

  • Quarters (Usually played with a pitcher of Killian’s at Paul’s Deli in Williamsburg. House rules: if the quarter managed to go in the PITCHER, you had to drink it all and buy a new one. If the quarter bounced off the rim of the cup, you yelled “Rim job!” and got another chance."
  • Asshole (Flyp and boli taught me at Spiffled!)
  • I Never
  • Drunk Driver - Game for one person, really. Get a deck of cards, and lay out 6 to start, face down. Decide on a trip you have to make. For example, my house in Annapolis to college. For every turn, you drink and turn over a card. If you turn over a jack, add one card. Queen, two; King, three; Ace, four. Game doesn’t end until no cards are left. This leads to such amusing comments as “I’ve gotten there!!” “So drive around the parking lot!”
  • Beefymeg called it Kings, we called it Circle of Death. Our numbers were a bit different too. Lemme see if I can remember all of them…

2 - Take 2 sips of your drink
3 - Give 3 sips to someone else
4 - Give 2 sips, take 2 sips
5 - Five fingers up in air, same as beefymeg
6 - Give 3 sips, take 3 sips
7 - Movie Quotes. Someone picks a movie - first one to NOT be able to think of a quote from the movie drinks. (And yes, we accepted “Beep boop beep” as a quote from R2D2 in Star Wars.)
8 -
9 - Rhyme time (And lemme tell you, after 4 trips around a circle of 8 people, the rhymes get BAD.)
10 - Social
Jack -
Queen - Questions. (Our personal favorite to ask: “Can I ride you like a Harley on a bad stretch of freeway?”)
King -
Ace - Ace Bitch. Way this one worked was that the first person to draw an Ace becomes the Ace Bitch. Nothing happens until the LAST Ace is drawn, at which point the Ace Bitch must chug the rest of their drink. This happened to me once RIGHT after I refilled my huge glass. And yes, I managed to chug it all.

Unfortunately, I can’t remember what we did for 8, Jack, or King. (I think King may have been to finish off your drink, but I’m not sure.) Been a while since I played…and every time we played, I ended up REALLY drunk. Hence why I don’t remember. :smiley: