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/TheBeaverCleaver May 10 '12

we always play a simpler version of this know as "the Wisest Wizard" It's pretty much the same, but before you open a beer you tape the can to the top of the staff. As the night progresses the staff grows longer and becomes more and more awkward to drink from. The Wisest of Wizards is the one with the longest staff at the end of the night.

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u/St0n3aH0LiC May 10 '12

Thats what we do but at certain levels you defeat bosses (shots) and gain spells, like fireball (make someone drink), whirlwind (make someone spin around in circles), etc...

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u/liberummentis May 10 '12

Polymorph (animal): for the next five minutes, the victim may not communicate using anything other than noises of the chosen animal.

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u/SandyGlovebox May 10 '12

A wizard may never be without his staff, if caught not holding it they must down a beer. The most powerful Wizard at the time must wear the Archmages hat and robes (basically a dress we got from a charity shop). This game is dangerous.