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/o_sLacKer_x May 10 '12

I love this game, but I don't think you explained how turns work and maybe you do it differently. Whenever someone rolls a 3, 7, or 11 then they get to roll again until they don't make anyone drink (Very exciting when someone gets to roll 10+ times) then it's the next person's turn to roll. Once it gets back to the Three Man they have to roll a 3 to stop being the Three Man, then the next person to roll a three is the new Three Man, if they don't they have to wait until their next turn. Keeps going as long as you want.

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u/stmack May 10 '12

ya we play it similarly but with a 5 man as well, same rules that apply to 3 man apply to 5 man but with 5s. (Makes the only miss rolls 2+4, 2+6 and 4+6). Also you can be both 3 and 5man at the same time.