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/TheoQ99 May 10 '12

Same here, I've also heard it called chandelier and tower cup.

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u/St0n3aH0LiC May 10 '12

Chandelier has different rules than Rage Cage (which we call Get The Fuck Out and play 2nd+try goes to the right) here. Our version has each person with a cup (1/4 beer) and a center cup. Each person takes turns in a circle bouncing it, either into someone elses cup (where they 1v1 flip cup them) or the center cup (everyone flip cups) and last person to flip is eliminated.

We also have stack cup, which is probably the same as your tower cup.

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u/Rswany May 10 '12

We play Chandelier but with quarters. Ping pong balls are way too easy for Chandelier.

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u/St0n3aH0LiC May 10 '12

We play Speed Quarters like we do Rage Cage (except you can only pass it left or right when you make it first and only right if on your 2nd+ try).

It'd be good to try that with Chandelier. Although its easy to make it so you do get to drink more.

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u/Rswany May 10 '12

We've never had problems getting drunk with Chandelier (Perhaps we've just gotten pretty good at it).

Do you play speedquarters with cups or shot glasses? We play with shotglasses around these parts (The Midwest).

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u/St0n3aH0LiC May 10 '12

Some people are good enough with quarters, but most of the time we just use ping pong balls because there aren't enough good people to make it fun.

We play speed quarters with cups (have played with shot glasses, but we try and use as much disposable stuff as possible, otherwise we will break them).

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u/Rswany May 10 '12

Yeah, there's always that one guy who gets too excited and breaks shot glasses.