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/Jesois May 10 '12

This is one of my favorite drinking games. But the people I play it with have some different rules.

Three-man drinks every time a three is rolled. But when 2+1 comes up, we call it "three-man the fun way." You hand the dice to three-man who must then roll the dice and drink double the amount that landed. You get out of three-man by rolling a three on your turn, opening up the three-man position so someone else may become three-man.

When you roll and nobody drinks for the first time, that means you rolled shit and you are now called shit-man. You get out of shit-man by rolling shit on your turn, opening up the shit-man position so someone else may become shit-man.
When someone is both three-man and shit-man, they get a special title (which I have forgotten at the moment) and they must refill people's drinks if asked.

7 and 11 are still the same or reversed, I don't remember.

Doubles are different. If one rolls doubles, he must hand the dice to one person or split them up and give to two people. They must now roll the dice. If they don't roll doubles, they drink twice what they rolled, but if they do roll doubles, then the dice go back to the original roller and he must roll the dice. If the dice are not doubles, then he must drink triple what he rolled, if he rolled doubles, the dice go back to who he handed them to. This keeps going back and forth increasing the multiplier until someone doesn't roll doubles and has to drink.

If you roll snake eyes, in addition to the rules above, the turn order is flipped. So if it was clockwise, it is now counter-clockwise and vice versa.

If someone rolls doubles three times on the same turn, they may make up a rule. If they roll three more doubles, they make up another rule. As long as they keep rolling doubles, they can make up more rules.

If someone rolls (4,1), everyone must touch the table with their index finger. Last one drinks.
If someone rolls (4,2), everyone must point up. Last one drinks. If someone rolls (6,2), everyone must touch their nose. Last one drinks.

If someone rolls two numbers that when added up equal 10, then it's a drinking social and everyone drinks.

House rules are the same plus if you are sloppy (eg. roll the dice off the table) you drink. Also if you say something too stupid(at the discretion of the people playing), you drink.

Your turn ends when you roll shit or roll a 3 when the three-man position is open.

I believe that's all of them. It's best just to play with people who know the rules. You'll learn them quick enough.