Drinking games

[Fake Boris]

What drinking games do you like to play? Here's a list of mine, with the rules. I guess they're fairly well known but would be curious to know your house variations.

1. Buffalo

Lasts until you die and begins when you are baptized by another buffalo. The ritual is to pledge allegiance to the rules of buffalo and then drown a pint with a quarter thrown in it. You then swallow the quarter, and spit it back in your baptist's hand. It is said the only way to opt out of being a buffalo is to find the quarter, which incidentally the baptist will often choose to throw in the sewers as a precaution.
EDIT: the rule of buffalo being, of course, that you if you get caught drinking alcohol from your non-proficient hand by a buffalo, you must finish your glass one-shot.

2. Caps

Each player puts a bottle of beer in front of him, and places the cap face down on top of it. Everyone starts with a few caps in their hand and throws them at the other players' bottle. If their cap falls off, they drink, and put the cap back. We play with the "bulldozer" house rule. A player that has finished his bottle can roll it towards an opponent's bottle. If the cap falls off, the victim of the bulldozer must drown his beer. Since his bottle his empty, he gets a chance to bulldoze someone else. This can obviously result in some serious drinking.

3. Pyramid

Split a deck of cards in two. Lay the first half face down on the table, in the shape of a pyramid (one on top, two in the second row, an so forth). Distribute the other half to the players. Each round, starting from the base of the pyramid, a card is turned face up. If you've got a card of the same value in your hand, you can have someone drink a mouthful of beer (in the second row, it's two mouthfuls, the third is three, etc). You can also try to BS an opponent. If you get caught BSing you have to drink the mouthfuls you gave with a double penalty. Similarly, if you're accused of BSing and it turns out you told the truth, the accusator drinks at douple penalty.

4. Bizkit

My favorite one. It's played with two dices.

Any double: you give someone the quantity of mouthfuls shown on the dices.
3: you are the bizkit. Expect some punishment. If you're already the bizkit, you're double bizkit, which means you drink at double penalty. This rules stacks up indefinitely.
7: nothing happens, pass the dices to the next player
8: you can create a new rule, or suppress a current one. Rules must target the group or the bizkit. You can't make up an arbitrary rule that targets an individual. Popular choices include having the bizkit drink everytime someone else drinks, having the bizkit drink everytime he makes someone drinks, etc. Rules do stack, so it can get pretty ugly for the bizkit. You could also go softer and for instance make mouthfuls "divisible" i.e they don't have to be given to the same player all at once.
9: player on your right drinks
10: player on your left drinks
11: tournée générale
12: you get to distribute a whole ****ing lot of mouthfuls (see first rule).

You throw the dices for as long as someone drinks as a consequence of your action. Non-doubles below seven count as a seven.

5. Links

Shuffle and distribute the deck. Players must keep their hand face down on the table. First one draws first card in his hand and puts it on the table. A link is created when the card you played is the same number or color as the player immediately to your left or right. Links can extend to the whole table. Everyone part of the link drinks as many mouthfuls as there are participants in the link.

[Darius871]

6. The Warm Beer Game

Arrange 5-10 people in a circle, with one person (the lead) holding a beer glass and constantly heating it with a cigarette lighter, and some poser nobody likes (the mark) to the immediate left of the lead.

The point of the game is supposed to seem like a tactile version of 'telephone': the mark closes his eyes and the lead writes an imaginary letter or symbol on the mark's face with his/her finger, and then the mark similarly passes on the message with his/her finger, clockwise around the circle. Lather, rinse, and repeat.

All the mark knows is that ostensibly anyone in the circle who grins or laughs has to shotgun the warm beer (or down the warm double-shot, in some variations). In reality, the whole point is for the lead to covertly coat his finger in soot from the underside of the bottle, and write stuff all over the unsuspecting mark's face for half an hour.

That's fun enough in itself, but if you use warm 151 instead of beer you'll get the circle plenty soused too, since 9 out of 10 people will laugh at least twice.

[LordShiva]

7. The Game of Death

Everyone sits in a circle. One person is "it." Everyone shouts, in unison, "Holy f**k, we're gonna get drunk, the game of death!" and then points to someone else, while the "it" shouts a number between 1 and 9. Then, starting from the "it," you follow the pointings for as many times as the number called by the "it," with the person who it ends on having to drink that many mouthfuls. That person is then the "it."

A couple drinks into the game, everyone starts shouting out "9," so it gets bad pretty fast.

[Jon Miller]

8. Drunk Chess (Blitz)

You play standard chess, but after every move you take a drink.

JM

[Fake Boris]

Darius

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
8. Drunk Chess (Blitz)

You play standard chess, but after every move you take a drink.

JM

That's not drunk chess, that's suicide chess. The way we play, we take a shot whenever one of our pieces is captured.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
8. Drunk Chess (Blitz)

You play standard chess, but after every move you take a drink.

JM

Ooh ooh, that reminds me:

9. The Hooplehead Game

Watch a few episodes of Deadwood, and take a shot of cheap whiskey every time a character says "c*cksucker." Whatever you do though, do NOT try this with any eps containing Mr. Wu.

Other variations include taking a shot whenever a character takes a shot (at least a half-dozen per ep) or, if you're truly hardcore, down a shot to every instance of f*ck - you'll undoubtedly be in an ambulance after 15 minutes.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Darius871


Ooh ooh, that reminds me:

9. The Hooplehead Game

Watch a few episodes of Deadwood, and take a shot of cheap whiskey every time a character says "c*cksucker." Whatever you do though, do NOT try this with any eps containing Mr. Wu.

Other variations include taking a shot whenever a character takes a shot (at least a half-dozen per ep) or, if you're truly hardcore, down a shot to every instance of f*ck - you'll undoubtedly be in an ambulance after 15 minutes.

Or LOTR, shooting after every "My precioussss."

[Darius871]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Or LOTR, shooting after every "My precioussss."

I can just picture myself after that one... lying in a bathtub wrapped in a vomit-drenched shower curtain whispering "never gonna drink again, never gonna drink again, never gonna drink again, never gonna drink again, never gonna drink again..... well, 'til tomorrow anyway."

Ahh, memories.

Scattered, perforated memories.

[C0ckney]

10. 21

good for between five - ten people, the idea of the game is get to 21. the rules are simple, if you say one number it goes to the next person, if you say two then it reverses (i.e. goes to the person before you), if you say three then it skips a person.

if a person makes a mistake, doesn't realise it's their turn or takes too long, they have to drink and a new round starts, from 1. when 21 is reached, the person who has to say 21 drinks, and can then change one of the numbers to another word. for example someone might change '3' to 'apple', so in each round from then, when it gets to 3 the person must say apple instead of 3. if someone makes a mistake here, they must drink. this can get very confusing, because you can change the numbers to anything, even other numbers, which obviously leads to more drinking.

each round starts with the first person saying "21 is good game and a fast game" saying 1,2 or 3 numbers and choosing a direction. so a game with 5 players (a,b,c,d and e) would start like this:

player a: 21 is a good game and a fast game, 1 to my left
player b: 2,3,4
player d: 5,6
player c: 7
player b: 8,9,10
player e: 11

and so on until someone messes up or 21 is reached.

[Zero]

thats great u guys mentioned classics like caps and drunk chess (also played with actual pieces that are shot glasses, with King being the biggest shotglass and u drink everytime u get ur piece captured)

but im baffled that u guys havent mentioned a$$hole yet.

there's also ring of fire, auctioneering and indian poker, which is ONLY fun when playing drunk w/ drinks wager IMO.

we had this one instance when 5 ppl had all 3s, and 4s, and the drinks wager was thru the roof thinkin they fo sho was gonna win. That was fun times.

[Fake Boris]

Hi there. I see you are discussing drinking games. Perhaps I can be of assistance.

[alva]

Take a deck of cards and split it (anyway you want).
Put them diagonally against each other (pyramyd style).

Blow against one side until at least 1 cards comes off (you can do more, or even have several attempts and whatnot).
When the pyramid collapses ---> drinking time (or buying a round, blahblahblah).

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
8. Drunk Chess (Blitz)

You play standard chess, but after every move you take a drink.

JM

same with checkers

except pieces are shot glasses

drink up when you take a piece

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Hi there. I see you are discussing drinking games. Perhaps I can be of assistance.