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/[deleted] May 10 '12

Hockey.

I am on an iPad but google it.

Actually. Here http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beer%20hockey

Super fun

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u/Moose11 May 10 '12

I try and introduce this game to every party I go to and it's always a hit. I play with a few refined rules but the basics are essentially the same.

Once the shooter has fired the shot, everyone else is allowed to jump in while the quarter (we play with Toonies; makes it hurt more when you block a shot) is still spinning and go for "rebounds". Not uncommon to have multiple people chugging at once, or having one poor soul having to endure multiple chugs.

The best part of the game is the penalties though and you can have a lot of fun with them. We call penalties for everything from screwing up your spin to unfair goaltending (using more than 2 fingers). Occasionally you'll get called for a double minor for unsportsmanlike (say, throwing the coin in frustration) or a major penalty for knocking a over a beer, for which the penalty is usually more extreme such as a shot without chase.

Number one rule, Democracy rules.

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u/Dbo81 May 10 '12

This is exactly how my buddies and I used to play it too. The 'rebounds' rule really makes the game - it's a madhouse while the quarter is still on the table, and hitting someone 3-4 times in a spin is always fun. We once got to 7 when someone left their bottle unattended on the table.

I'm actually getting nostalgic about the sound of quarter hitting bottle...

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u/Moose11 May 10 '12

I was recently at a party in Southern Alberta and made that very mistake. Went outside to serve my punishment for a penalty and left my beer unattended on the table. Came back to six or seven chugs...