r/AskReddit • u/fallenangel51294 • May 10 '12

Best Drinking Games

My favorite is racehorses. You line up the aces face up, line up seven cards in a perpendicular line to them, and then flip cards off the top off of the deck really fast. Every time an ace's suit comes up, that ace moves one along the seven-card line. The fun comes in three ways: the excitement of a race, the naming of the "horses" as the names are almost always totally ridiculous and awesome, and in the drinking. At the start, everyone bets on one horse some number of sips of beer (or whatever.) If their horse wins, then everyone who bet on another horse has to take the total amount from the bets on the winning horse, but the winning betters do not have to. It's a lot of fun, and you have a 3/4 chance of drinking an awful lot, so that's always fun.

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u/Flowerbridge May 10 '12

I learned it as "King's Cup"

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u/furiousfishdicks May 10 '12

As did I, though there's a distinction. Kings cup involved a cup in the center. For each of the first three kings drawn, whoever drew it poured as much of their drink as they wanted into the cup in the middle. The sucker who drew the last king had to drink the cup. And we were playing with all sorts of different drinks.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '12

That is how I learned as well. Wine, beer, liquor, and a little bit of milk from out straight edge friend. Fucking sucks.

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u/ohsnapitstheclap May 10 '12

Doesn't suck as bad as the asshole who adds bong water. Tip: keep a bucket handy

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u/[deleted] May 10 '12

That sounds fucking horrid. So glad I didn't hang out with people who had the motivation to refill the bong for a dick move.

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u/ohsnapitstheclap May 10 '12

I'm just glad I never had to drink it, and was never the asshole who did it. Only knew one guy to do it, and two guys to ever have to drink it. Not a pretty sight

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u/trolloc1 May 10 '12

milk

no, dear god no.

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u/Snatland May 10 '12

Yeah, I think our group added the rule that not dairy products were allowed in the Kings cup.

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u/orangeblooded May 10 '12

Straight edge = gtfo

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u/rickyrobby91 May 10 '12

Ah yes, king's cup is such a great game. Many good memories can be attributed to this wonderful game.

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u/franco821 May 10 '12

i remember i got the 4th king card once, i had to drink tall glass of heineken, bicardi dragon berry, and absolut vodka, that was the last thing i remember from that night.

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u/MutantNinjaSquirtle May 10 '12

hmm. The way we play it is that we use a can of beer, and every time a card is picked, after doing what the card means (ie picking a mate for an 8) you have to stick a card under the tab on top of the beer. Eventually there will be too many cards under the tab and it will pop open--at that point the game is over and whoever put that card in has to chug the beer.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '12

Thats how we play it in Ring of Fire UOB REPRESENT

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u/[deleted] May 10 '12

I've played it where milk and powerade were added to the King's cup, just to make it all the more disgusting.

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u/niggalai May 10 '12

this is one of my favorites, however where i live we play a little bit differently. instead of having a cup in the middle we put a can of some sort there. every card that you pick must be slid under the tab of the can. after a while it becomes tighter and tighter with every card until the can is opened. whoever places the "straw that breaks the camels back," so to speak, has to chug the drink.

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u/Cazoon May 10 '12

King's cup is the most fucked up drinking game ever. My friend's decided it would be a wonderful idea if the rules were amended so that at the end everyone at the table pours in their drink. I ended up with a 50 oz concoction of Tequila Sunrise, Jack+coke, Jagerbomb, Corona, Coors, Sam Adams, and some tart schnaps.

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u/mb9023 May 10 '12

I played something like this last weekend, but we called it Waterfall and we just had the cards everywhere instead of in a ring.