Drinking games:

Drinking games are games which involve drinking alcoholic beverages. The point is either simply to drink, or to make your opponent drink more than you do, so that they become drunk and drink even more, and so forth. Cottabus is an ancient drinking game involving skill in pouring a swig of wine into a large vessel. A modern variant of the Cottabus drinking games, known as Arrogance drinking game, has players take turns to add as much beverage as they like to a central jug before correctly calling a flip of a coin. Failure to call the coin correctly (or dropping it, a real possibility during the later stages of the game), means the unlucky (or clumsily drunk) player must drink the entire contents of the central jug.


Common drinking games
Perhaps the simplest drinking game is the one in which players simply try to out-drink each other. Some drinking games, such as quarters drinking game involve certain skills, which become more difficult as the level of intoxication increases. Players take turns taking shots (drinking beers, etc.). The last person standing is the winner...

Numerous drinking games based on popular television shows and genres exist; the rules for these usually instruct the players to drink when some event (such as a character speaking a catch phrase in comedies, or the use or mention of a particular technology in science fiction) occurs, typically with the size of the drink inversely proportional to the frequency of the event - an event that happens rarely can call for finishing one's current can/bottle. The State of the Union address and the Eurovision Song Contest have become targets of such games as drinking games can make these events more entertaining.

A generalization of the above can apply to other circumstances in which the participants are observing a situation in which certain predictable events occur, such as a movie, a football game, or other people at a party or in a bar. For example, each player may be assigned the name or number of a football player, and must drink when that name or number is mentioned by the commentators or shown on the screen.

Other drinking games rely on memory; each player must repeat a series of events, and then add to it. If a player repeats the series incorrectly, he or she must take a drink. These games start out simple, but become much more challenging as the series grows and the players get drunker and their coordination and memory deteriorate.

Drinking games can be based on totally random or indeed totally predictable events. The Busted drinking game (unofficial) involves listening to the Busted track Year 3000. All players drink when the band say the word "3000", which happens quite a lot of the time!

Drinking games... heh heh... oh dear. I've been in too many and they DO NOT do you're hangover any good in the morning!!!

My favourite one is... two people take a mouthful of Vodka but don't swallow, then spin round and round holding hands with the other person- the person to swallow first loses! OWWWWWCH for the headaches!

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Lol, werd Firith!

That sounds like a fantastic game!
We have a J-Rock one...

But there's also one with drinking vodka from an ice cube tray with a TINY little straw... Whoever finishes the fastest wins. And stays on for the next challenger.
Of course...as time goes by...the winner is losing all coordination...but we're mean. If you win twice, you can only use one hand. If you win three times...you have to use none, and guide the straw to the next one with just your mouth. -grin-

...it's VERY funny to watch, you should try it sometime. ^_^

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