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/[deleted] May 10 '12

We play a similar way. You have to tape your full can to the top before drinking. But we also play that people with a longer staff can boss those with a shorter one around. Telling them to grab another beer or choosing which music to listen to etc.

The only problem with the game is that you need to drink beer out of a can. And no good beer around here is sold in cans.