DRINKING GAMES THAT WILL GET THE PARTY STARTED

FOUR KINGS

Four Kings is played with as many players as you have but it comes

down to four main players. Deal one card from a standard deck

to each person around the circle. Whoever gets the first King

card picks an available liquor, the second picks the mixer, the third

buys/makes the drink, and the fourth drinks it. It could easily

happen you get more than one King (depending on how many

people are playing), so choose wisely!

THE POLITICIAN'S SPEECH

With election season fast approaching, the Politician’s Speech is the

perfect game to play while educating yourself on politics. Watch a

political debate between candidates and pre-set rules you’ll have to

follow when something happens. For instance, between Barack Obama

and John McCain, you could have to take a drink every time

Obama says change or a candidate interrupts the other and waterfall if

(and until McCain finishes) talking about his war experience.

SLOSHED SANTA

Best played around the holidays (but you can play modified versions

throughout the year), TV Santa is played by placing a Santa hat on the

top corner of a television. Every time an actor appears to be

wearing the hat, take a drink. It’s that easy.

CHEERS TO THE CAPTAIN

A bit more complicated of a drinking game but loads of fun, Cheers to

the Captain is played with friends and drinks. The goal is to count to

21 – at which point everybody takes a drink and says “Cheers to the

Captain!”. Whenever this happens, whoever said 21 makes up a new

rule attached to a number. For example, you can switch numbers or

have someone high-five another player instead of saying the number.

The only set rules from the beginning are that 7 and 11 are switched,

so the people around the circle would say: Person 5: Five. Person 6:

Six. Person 7: Eleven. Person 8: Eight. etc.

ELECTRICITY CARD GAME

In Electricity Card Game, a player draws a card and flips it over in front

of them. If the card is the same number or suit as the card on top

of another player’s pile, they complete a circuit. The card owners drink

their face value (or, for a less hard core version, two seconds worth).

BATTLESHOTS

A play on the childhood favourite game of Battleship, Battleshots is

similarly played and guaranteed to sink you. Draw up a board on

cardboard or with chalk and make little ships with places for shot glasses.

Your ships should be in three sizes: two, three, and four shots.

From there, players take turns firing imaginary torpedoes(D2!)

to sink their adversary’s ships AKA make them take a shot.

SINK THE BATTLESHIP

Sink the Battleship is a drinking game where players put a pitcher of

beer in the middle and float a cup/glass in the middle of the pitcher.

Each person pours some of their beer in the glass, trying not to be the

one who sinks the glass. (It’s a bit like Jenga.) The sinker of the glass

drinks. It’s also called Sink the Biz at Indiana University.

FLIP CUP

A staple of drinking games everywhere, Flip Cup is played by lining up a

group of people into two teams along two sides of a table. The first

players have to down their cup and then put their cup on the table with

part of the bottom jutting out and attempt to flip it upside down.

The next player starts drinking then tries to flip their cup when

the one before them successfully flips theirs. Add a variation

by making players slide down a slip and slide first.

THUMPER

The perfect game just before heading out (because it’s so fast-paced) is

Thumper. Every player picks a gesture (e.g. moose antlers, fishy face,

playing a trumpet) and shows it to the group. Then the game begins:

someone starts off by giving their sign and another random player’s

sign; that player has to give their own sign and another player’s sign.

The game goes on until somebody hesitates or doesn’t give back a

sign at which point they must take a drink.