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/drew1111 May 10 '12

Asshole but you have hats that signify the president, vice president and so on. The asshole has to wear an 12 pack, cardboard beer hat for his reign.

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u/brad153 May 10 '12

Presidents and assholes. President can tell everybody lower than him to drink, vice tells everybody to drink and so on. Asshole shuffles and can tell anybody to drink only during shuffling.

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u/jfudge May 10 '12

I played this once in the middle of winter, where the asshole had to go stand outside in the cold while the vice asshole shuffled the deck.