Drinking Games

International drinking rules

These are unwritten rules for drinking games and usually apply whilst playing any of the following games. They are however optional, and you can pick and choose which rules you use:

• Left-handed drinking only (don't touch your glass with your right hand).
• No pointing with fingers - you have to "go buffalo" and point using your elbows.
• Don't say the name of another player. You must refer to them by a nickname or other appropriate moniker.
• Don't use the word "drink" at any point. You must use another word: "imbibe" is a popular alternative.

There is no standard punishment for breaking these rules - it is a good idea to set it before you start playing.

Thumbmaster

This is a game which can be played as a sub-game of any the following games, or as a separate game whilst you're having a conversation or whatever. One person is assigned to be the Thumbmaster. At any point (and it could be 2 seconds later, or 2 hours), that person must place their thumb on the table. All other players must spot this move and follow suit. The last person to get their thumb down has to finish his/her drink and then takes over the role of Thumbmaster.

I Have Never

Play in a group of people with your own drink. One person says e.g. 'I have never been drunk' (this has to be true) and anyone who has been drunk in the group has to drink. If nobody has 'been drunk' then the person posing the question has to drink. It carries on round in a circle until the rudest naughtiest person in the book is pissed stupid. This is a great game to play with some of your closest friends and their new girlfriends/boyfriends because not only do you humiliate them totally but you get to see a couple fight when the other half finds out what a dirty lying person they're going out with. Pure entertainment.
Another sub-rule is that you can 'call out' the person making the initial statement. So for example, person A says 'I have never been drunk', and several other people, of course, have been, then they would drink. However, one of the players suspects that person A is lying, they can call them out on it. If they are correct and person A is in fact lying, then person A must finish his/her drink. If they are telling the truth, the caller has to finish his/her drink.

Have You Ever

An extension on 'I have never' that happens when you are all really drunk and want to admit all the rude things you've been up to. Instead of saying 'I have never been drunk' you say 'have you ever been drunk?' implying you have and you have to drink to it as well. It's good if you haven’t seen your friends in a while and you want to let them know what you've been up to. It's not as fun as 'I have never' unless you are already very drunk.

21

Sit in a circle, and everyone has their own drink. The object of the game is to count, in a circle, upto 21. A designated person starts it going by saying "To my left/right, 1". They choose the direction, and the game continues like that.
However, any player (including the person who starts it) can say upto 3 numbers at once (e.g. to my left, 1 2 3, and then the next person says "4 5").
If a player says two numbers at once, then the game switches direction and goes back round the circle.
If a player says three numbers at once, then it skips the person whose go it would normally be (e.g. if the game is going to the right, and someone says 2 3 4, then next number(s) will be said by the person two places to the right).
If someone says the wrong number, forgets their number, speaks out of turn or otherwise makes an error, they have to drink. The person who says "21" has to finish his/her drink. As an added perk, the person who gets to 21 can introduce a new rule into the game.
This is where the real fun starts!
The new rule can be absolutely anything.
Examples:
Instead of saying "3", you have to clap twice and stand on your chair.
Right & left are reversed (so if the starter says "to my left, 1", it does in fact go to the right).
Instead of saying "7", you have to kiss the person to your left on the cheek.
Instead of saying "11", you have to sing "she'll be coming round the mountain".
If at any point someone fails to comply with these rules, they must take a drink. Of course, the longer the game goes on, the more people get drunk and the more mistakes they make until everyone is getting pissed at an incredible exponential rate.

The Question Game

Play in a group with your own drink again. One person starts and looks anyone in the group in the eye and asks them a question. This person has to respond by asking anyone else in the group a question without laughing, pausing, answering the previous question or procrastinating, if they do these things they have to drink. It gets good if you start asking them rude or awkward questions which with throw their concentration or if you are very good in the way you tell them. It is also fun to pick on a member of the group because the more they loose the drunker they'll get and again the more they'll loose. Is quite involving though, and will take all the groups concentration.

The Celebrity Game

All have your own drinks and the concept is drink while you think. One person says a celebrity and the person next to them has to say another celebrity whose first letter in their first name begins with the letter of the last celebrities last name (e.g. Tom Cruise - Christina Aguilera). If someone says a celebrity whose first letters in both their names are the same then the game changes directions (e.g. Danny Wallace - Willy Wonker, the person who said Danny Wallace has to have another go). While you are thinking of the celebrity then you have to drink. This game gets you drunk quickly if you are bad at it or you stay totally sober if you are good. Can get boring quickly but is a good game if playing in polite company (e.g. your lecturer).

Tequila

Agree the rules with all participating parties before but this is essentially just a boat race. Last one to finnish their tequila's has to have another or a sambucha or something equally as bad. Basically you line your drinks up on the bar (I recommend 5 to start then 3 thereafter) salt your hand in a line then count to 3. On 3 the rule is 'Slam, Clink, Lick, Drink' so everyone slams their first tequila on the bar raises it to either clink it with their fellow participants or just raises it if there are too many of you, then lick the salt and start the race. Winner is the first one to get to the end of their tequila's and slam the glass on the table. If there is ANY of the tequila left in the finished glasses then you are disqualified making you the looser. That’s basically the rules, oh and have your lime after, it doesn't count towards the game though. Happy alternatives to salt and lime are cinnamon and orange. Unhappy alternatives to the conventional way of drinking tequila is a tequila suicide where you snort the salt, drink the tequila then pour the lime in your eye. This is a good punishment for coming last in a boat race. Tequila is fun as a bonding exercise. It is also good if you enjoy fighting.

Arrogance

You will need one empty pint glass and some loose change. Pile the change up in the middle of the table making sure nobody see's if the coins are heads or tails way up.. Take it in turns going round the table to guess if the next coin is heads or tails. Before your go you must poor any amount of your drink into the pint glass, if you guess wrong you must down it, if you guess right it then goes to the next player who in turn has to pour any amount of their drink into the pint glass with yours. This is fun if you want to get pissed, be an arrogant sod and poor a shit load of your drink into the pint glass, if your wrong your drunk if your right then sombody else is very pissed off at you for being such a cocky bastard. Is best fun when you all have very different drinks that don't mix well.


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