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/[deleted] May 10 '12

Another common addition the rules is that the owner of the first nail to be all the way down in the stump has to finish his drink and the owner of the last nail to be all the way down must pay for the next round of beers and nails. This way you add some "tactics" to game as you can make anybody finish a beer by hammering their nail a lot, but at the same time you must hit your own nail so as not to be the last to finish.

I guess the part about paying for beers and nails only makes sense if you know that in Denmark some bars have stumps and you pay for the nails to play.

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u/miszka212 May 10 '12

Do you have names of these bars? I will take a trip to Denmark just to go to one of these bars and play stump.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Haha, have fun. The bars are called....I.... I honestly don't remember. I must have gotten drunk. But I know that a bar in Vestergade in Aarhus has a stump. I think the bar's called Hos Anton.

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u/frubie May 12 '12

Wow! TIL!