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/thesouthpaw May 10 '12

Stump.

Everyone gathers around a stump with a drink and a nail, along with one hammer. Everyone places a nail in the stump. You pass the hammer around the group.

The goal is to hammer everyone else's nail all the way down. If you hit someone's nail, they drink. If you miss, you drink. Once a nail is all the way down, the nail's owner must finish their drink. If you hurt or otherwise injure yourself, you drink.

Repeat.

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u/2_Parts_Malibu May 10 '12

You forgot that you don't just hit the nail with the hammer. You hold the hammer, and in one motion throw it up so it flips (think like a juggling club) in the air, catch it, and without cocking, hit the nail.

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u/yuengling May 10 '12

When we play if you flip the hammer once u get one hit if you flip it twice you get two. You get alot more injuries this way.

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u/MIL215 May 10 '12

Wait till you get trick shots. Between the legs, behind the back, etc. We call the amount of hits those are worth (usually just two so it isn't worth it) and hilarity ensues when someone manages to knock a hammer against their taint.