Drinking games

- 1 or preferably 2 packs of cards
- empty wine bottle

Stand the wine bottle in the middle of the table and place the pack(s)of cards on top. Take turns to blow cards from the pile. You are allowed one blow only. If you fail to blow any cards off the top of the pile you must drink. If you blow all the remaining cards off the bottle you must drink. I like this one because it's a drinking game that's to do with coordination rather than the usual mental skillz (eg. name game) or chance (eg. eurovision voting)

we played a "drink while you build" game of Jenga once, where when it's your turn you have to play jenga with one hand and drink with the other hand - this also has the additional benefit of automatically enforcing the "one hand only" rule

They're popular with students and others thrown together in a social setting who actually have nothing in common with each other but must make the sociability work. It is almost understandable. Anyone else - an awful practice of people who shouldn't be allowed in pubs if they can't engage in decent chat who use such games to hide the fact that they are shallow people who live lives of superficiality and are in fact cockfarmers who weep to the depths of their souls at night if they'd ever have the emotional lucidity to recognise this fact.

everybody has a drink and take turn saying

"It's unseemly to have drinking games where you make getting drunk the end, not a pleasant effect of having fun that gets bound up in a lovely dialectic with having fun itself in a virtuous circle."

and have to drink extra if you get it wrong!

but at the same time I do very much enjoy Dave B's recommended activity - having drinks in a bar with friends and, lo and behold, three hours later you're drunk! How in the hell did that happen?

drinking games

has anyone ever actually played a game of strip poker that ended in actual full frontal?

omg drinking games on the lol and now naked games on the drinking games OUTRAGE

most fun drinking game I have ever played: put on john mellencamp's "small town", gather everyone into a circle, first person starts drinking at the first occurrence of the word 'town' and drinks continuously until the next occurrence, whereupon the person to their left now begins drinking, etc etc

we played it with some other song+word combos after that but (unsurprisingly) i cannot remember what they were

getting stuck with an instrumental break is kinda tough but hey, so is being born in a small town

Drinking games are a substitute for social activity, and are a form of enforced fun. Enforcing fun is like fucking for peace, or having wars for virginity etc.

wow still trying to wrap my head around this

Landmines

You need: a table, a case of beer, some quarters, a cup, and a handful of those tiny liquor bottles

Scatter the tiny liquor bottles all over the table and put an empty cup in the middle. On your turn, you have to fill the cup with about 1/5 of a beer, then spin the quarter on the table. During that time you have to drink the beer and put the cup down before the quarter comes to a rest. If you can't do it, you have to refill the beer and do it again. Basically you have to try to avoid hitting the liquor bottles; if you hit one of those, you have to drink like 1/3 of it as well. Once your beer can is empty you can use it as a landmine...basically you can put it wherever you want on the table, whenever you want (so you usually just smash the quarter with it on someone else's turn). By the end of the game, everyone is smashed and there are so many empties on the table that spinning the quarter is very difficult.

We had a giant bitch-slap about drinking games once but I'm sure it was on a totally unrelated thread.

i vowed never again to get involved in drinking games after waking up spooning a toilet on a sticky floor.

frogbs that sounds like death.

has anyone ever actually played a game of strip poker that ended in actual full frontal?

yes

unfortunately it wasn't the women in the game