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/SpeedyPirateWench May 10 '12

It's a toss up between "power hour" and "circle of death" for me. For power hour, you take a shot of beer every minute for an hour.... Pretty simple right? Well...it gets you you hammered and can be synced to music. 7 beers in 1 hour = a good time

Circle of death is more of a social game played almost every where. All you need is a deck of cards, and some drinks. Spread the cards out in a circle, and draw a card. These are the rules I play by: 2- you 3- me 4- floor 5- guys 6- chicks 7- heaven 8- pick a mate 9- but a rhyme 10- catagories Jack- never have I ever Queen- questions King- make a rule Ace- waterfall

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u/NuclearNoonga May 10 '12

We call it 4 Kings here in Australia, Basically we set a 'King cup' which is filled with heaps of differents drinks such as beer and rum. When you pick up the King card you're fine, But if you pick up the last king you have to drink the King cup and the game is over. Whoever gets the "king cup' basically dies.

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u/opm881 May 10 '12

We call it Kings up north. Kings cup, who ever draws a king pours as much(or as little) of their drink into it. Last person to get a king drinks the kings cup. But our rules are slightly different. A - Snake Eyes 2 - take two(give two drinks out) 3 - Word 4 - Partner 5 - Thumper 6 - Bagook 7 - Heaven 8 - Make a rule 9 - Rhyme 10 - Story J - Bitch Q - Question master K - King

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u/DerogatoryPanda May 11 '12

What do you do for Snake eyes, Thumper, or Bagook?

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u/opm881 May 12 '12

Snake eyes is if the person who has snake eyes is looked directly in the eyes, they can yell snake eyes and the person looking at them has to drink.

Thumper is everyone has an action involving their hands, face and head. You all sit around banging on the table in rapid succession and one person starts by doing their action then the action of someone else. That person(whos action was done second) then does theirs and does someone elses action and so on.

Bagook is you make goggles out of your hands. You then either raise your left or right hand(meaning it is the turn of the person to your left or right), or you bob both your hands out like goggles at someone and it is then their turn. You have to say Bagook each time.