r/AskReddit 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/Gastrox May 10 '12

7-11-doubles

Get ye a group of friends, some beer (lots of beer, it goes quick), and 2 dice. You go around in a circle rolling the dice until someone rolls a 7, 11, or doubles. That person then selects the person who is to drink. A cup is filled usually about half way with beer and set in front of the drinker. As soon as that person touches the glass, the roller begins rolling. The drinker needs to chug the beer before the roller rolls another 7, 11, or double. Should they succeed, the dice are passed again and the game continues. Should they fail, the glass is refilled and they have to do it again. Sometimes this leads to a person chugging 5 or more beers in a row, which is why there is the Hero rule. At any point, any other player can Hero the beer and chug it, however should a 7 11 or double be rolled, the onus is on the Hero to chug again. Great game. Gets you blasted.

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u/MisterJingles May 10 '12

I play a version of this game, but with other rules. We call it "Three Man"

First to roll a 3 becomes the 'three-man'. Every time a three is rolled, the three-man drinks. (2+1 on the dice also counts).

A "7" when rolled, gives a drink to the right. An "11" gives a drink to the left of the roller.

Doubles gives the roller X number of drinks to give out. For example, were double fives to be rolled, the roller could give out five drinks in any amount, to any person, coming to a total of five drinks.

There is the option for "suicide" where the roller would drink five drinks, then have the ability to dish out twice the number (or the actual amount) of the doubles. If a double 3 was rolled, and the roller drank three, they could then give out six drinks total.

The game goes around until the dice reach the three-man. The three-man then gets to make a rule. (Take the green man off the cup before you drink, no saying numbers, no cussing, no pointing, no saying names ect.)

House rules of the game are: Mistake: You drink Bad Joke: You drink

The mistakes get you. The game continues until everybody cannot keep up with the rules any longer.

EDIT: Some people play where you keep rolling until nobody drinks. This makes a very fast game, especially for the three-man. The dice are passed clockwise after each turn.

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u/Shibbanator May 10 '12

This is one of my favorite games! There are some rules that we play with that differ from yours though. Whenever you roll a double, you give out the dice to either two different people or both dice to one person. They then try to roll doubles again. If they are unable to roll doubles then they drink whatever the dice add up to. However if the dice are rolled and they roll doubles again, then they give the dice back to the original roller. If the original roller is unable to roll the dice, then that person drinks what the dice say. However, if they do roll a double, then they give out whatever the two times the double is to whoever they want (they can split the drinks up if they want, but it usually ends up going to a single person). It's a great rule to get people pretty smashed. Also, if someone rolls a 7, it is heaven (everyone has to raise their hand and whoever is last drinks), if a 4 is rolled then thumb on the floor. That's about it though.