DRINKING GAMES THAT GET THE PARTY GOING

LAND MINES

To play Land Mines, players surround a table and have two shot

glasses next to them. Each person must (one at a time) spin a penny

on the table then take both shots then pick up the penny with the

same hand before it stops spinning. When a beer is finished, it gets

set on the table and becomes a land mine. If a player’s penny hits the

land mine, they have to finish their shots and start again. If someone

gets stuck and can’t complete a turn, they can buy out by downing

half a beer. The Land Mines game is over when the table has so

many beer cans it becomes unplayable.

DRINKING CHESS

Who said chess is no fun? If you have enough cups, Drinking Chess

can be a reality. Put the cups in the position of chess pieces and

fill them with some of your drink. If your opponent takes out one of

your pieces, you must drink its contents.

RUSSIAN BEER ROULETTE

Coming in as the messiest game, Russian Beer Roulette consists of

wildly shaking a can of beer. The cans are shuffled so no one knows

which one is the shaken can. Everyone picks a beer and the

unlucky one gets sprayed.

RING OF FIRE

Ring of Fire (sometimes called Kings) is played with a deck of cards and

your own drink. An extra drink or bottle is placed in the middle of the

group and cards are scattered around it in a circle, face side down.

Players go around the circle picking up a card and they or the group

have to follow the corresponding rule. The rules are: 2: You, pick

someone to drink 3: Me, take a drink yourself; 4: Floor, the last player

to put their hand on the floor drinks; 5: Guys, all men take a drink;

6: Chicks, all women take a drink; 7: Heaven, the last player to put their

hand towards the sky drinks; 8: Mate, pick someone who, for the rest

of the game, has to take a drink every time you do; 9: Rhyme, Everyone

must give a word that rhymes with yours. e.g. drink, think, pink;

10: Social, everyone drinks; Jack: Categories, the player who draws picks

a random category to which everyone must give an example

(e.g. Car brands: Honda, Ferrari, Ford, etc.) or else they drink;

Queen: Question Master, the person who draws the card is allowed to ask

anyone playing a question until the next queen is drawn and, if the

other person responds with anything but a question, that person must

drink; King: Waterfall, the person who drew the card starts water falling

and everyone after does the same with people stopping only when the

person before them does; Ace: Make up a rule, that everyone has to

follow for the remainder of the game. After drawing a card, players

place it on top of the middle drink. Whoever places their card on top

and causes the others to fall must drink the middle one.

POWER HOUR

A Power Hour is a great game to play if you want to relax a bit and have

time before going out. Set up a music, YouTube, or any other playlist

(or find any of the thousands already made) which have 60 clips of

only 60 seconds. When each clip ends, take a sip. Sixty sips may not

seem like a lot, but you tell us if you still think that after playing.

SLAP CUP

The only game that gets close to Russian Beer Roulette on the

beer-everywhere factor, Slap Cup is a fast-paced game with cups and

ping pong balls. Players gather around a table of cups part-way

filled with beer and a full centre cup. Everybody also gets an empty cup

in front of them and two players get ping pong balls. Two random

players start with the balls and the game moves counter-clockwise

from there. When two players next to each other are shooting, if the

player to the left bounces the ball into their cup first, they slap the

player to the right’s cup off the table. The right player then has to grab a

cup from the centre and finish it before shooting again. When a

player makes a cup, they pass it to the next available player on their right.

If a player makes it on the first shot, they can pass it to whomever they want.

The last player shooting has to down the full centre beer.

WIZARD STAFF

Best played when you’ll be drinking the whole day, Wizard Staff is played

by taping together finished beer cans into the shape of a staff. Any

wizard-wannabee has to take a shot after every five levels and staffs

are measured at the end of the event. Whoever has the longest staff

is declared the Wisest Wizard. If two or more people have the same size

staffs, they must battle with the staffs. Whosoever’s staff remains

intact is the winner.

MASTER OF THE THUMB

A drinking game add-on, Master of the Thumb is played alongside any

of these other games. One person is picked to be the Master and,

whenever they (as unknown to the others as possible) put their thumb

on the table, everyone else has to do the same. The last one to do it

drinks and becomes the new Master of the Thumb.