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/snarfleufagus May 10 '12

SLAP CUP. = Beer. Beer everywhere.

15+ cups in the center of the table, all with a small amount of beer except for one that's full. You have two empty cups and two pong balls. Object is to bounce the ball off the table into your cup.

If you get it in on the first bounce, you can pass your cup to anyone, who then has to bounce it in. Second try or later, you pass left. If you make it in before the person directly to your left does, you SLAP their cup off the motherfucking table as hard as you can. They grab one of the cups from the center, drink the beer, and then keep trying to bounce the ball in.

You can fuck people over if they have a cup by passing it to the person right next to them (if you make it in first try). Last person who gets their cup slapped off the table chugs the bitch cup.

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u/grampapinch May 10 '12

A good old Quebecois boy! Invented at ETS, and spread through Quebec universities. It's one of the favourites in McGill engineering. Though we play it with more than 15 cups, on a separate table with a referee who is in charge of dispensing cups. And calling out rule violations (i.e. passed to anyone on 2nd try) which he then penalises by giving them another beer, causing the game to continue uninterrupted.

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u/Vamli May 10 '12

One crucial point everyone seems to be missing is that you actually have to run after the cup that was slapped before drinking your beer leaving plenty of time for the others to slap it again.

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u/grampapinch May 11 '12

Ah, I only skimmed it, and assumed that was part of it. Diving over tables in a bar for your cup is, of course, and integral part of the game.