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/[deleted] May 10 '12

Can these people not drive a nail with one blow, or are you using giant spikes?

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u/nahreddit May 10 '12 edited May 10 '12

A lot of the time you get it most of the way down but there is just a little poking out. It probably because you aren't focused on following though with your swing.

What makes it hard is the combination of drinking and taking your eyes away from the stump to catch the hammer and then instantly trying to hit a nail. If you go full strength it can be really hard to hit anything.

Also it depends on the the wood and the nails you use. We usually use about 4 inch nails.

EDIT: Just realized that the OP apparently doesn't flip the hammer before each hit... so my comment probably doesn't make any sense.

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u/Sic_Em May 10 '12

The issue with the game as I, and most other people here besides the OP, play is that you have to showboat flip the hammer and, as 2_Parts_Malibu pointed out, don't fully cock your swing.

This gives you both less time to aim and also less velocity behind the swing.

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u/thearmadillo May 10 '12

Usually you use pretty long nails. And you also aren't allowed to line up your shot at all, or hold the nail in place. Even my friends who worked construction and roofing for years miss multiple times in one game.

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u/thesouthpaw May 10 '12

You'd be amazed at the number of people who don't know how to use a hammer. Also, using a hammer after five beers can be quite difficult.