# Whats the name of this drinking game? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [July 16, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777 "2005-07-16T07:04:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 12 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/1 "2005-07-16T07:04:32Z")
Whats the name of that bar game where ya try and bounce a quarter in the other guys beer glass and if ya do he has to chug his drink? ---
### Author: ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/2 "2005-07-16T07:26:25Z")
Um…quarters? ---
### Author: ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/3 "2005-07-16T09:02:53Z")
Quarters. Simple as that. ---
### Author: ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/4 "2005-07-16T09:13:49Z")
[Cite.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=325821) ---
### Author: ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/5 "2005-07-16T09:15:26Z")
Lol, I noticed that OP too, made me do a double take on this thread to confirm users. Nothing wrong with covering your basis! 😉 ---
### Author: ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/6 "2005-07-16T09:47:07Z")
Bases, even. ---
### Author: ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/7 "2005-07-16T10:18:28Z")
At my undergrad, we played a similar game with dice. The name of the game was “Beer Die”, with intricate rules that had to be followed. ---
### Author: ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/8 "2005-07-16T10:36:38Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > Bases, even. 😕 ---
### Author: ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/9 "2005-07-16T13:43:14Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > 😕 He just meant the expression is actually “cover your **bases** ”, not “ **basis** ”. ---
### Author: ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler) #### Post date: [July 16, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/10 "2005-07-16T14:41:09Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > Bases, even. [All your base are belong to us!](http://www.pwned.nl/ayb/) ---
### Author: ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory) #### Post date: [July 17, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/11 "2005-07-17T01:53:10Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > He just meant the expression is actually “cover your **bases** ”, not “ **basis** ”. Yeah, that’s what I _thought_ too, but the definition I found for **basis** works like I’ve used it. ---
### Author: ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords) #### Post date: [July 18, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-this-drinking-game/312777/12 "2005-07-18T17:21:24Z")
A variant on quarters that seemed to be popular when I was in college was chandelier. Take a large glass (such as a rocks glass) and surround it with shotglasses - one for each player. Players shoot their quarters at this arrangement - if you get the quarter into someone’s shotglass, they drink. If the quarter goes into the center glass, everyone drinks. Usually, everyone gets drunk in a hurry as it’s much easier to land the quarter into a glass that’s 3" across than into a shotglass.