Pool Volleyball

Pool volleyball is kind of similar to pool basketball when it comes to the drinking part but I will get to that in a moment. First off there are rules unlike in pool basketball these pretty much follow regular volley ball rules except you obviously have a smaller court to deal with since you are in a pool. Also this game you will need a minimum of about 4 people more is definitely preferable but that option is not always available that’s when you will just have to improvised if you want to play and have a good time with your friends and/or family. The game is played to the score of 21 points whoever gets there first well that team is a winner and the other team well they get to take a shot. No that is not the only drinking in the game also whenever a point is scored the opposing team takes a drink since they failed to save that point. Also if there is an ace (where no one on the team on the opposing side of the net hits the ball at all) then the team that got aced voted a player to take a shot (this can be anyone but is usually whoever was not paying attending and is the reason why the team did not get the point).

I rate this game at a 8 out of 10 because it is an easy game that everyone can play and it is fun that you can play it in the pool.

Beer/pool Basketball

The weather is definitely hot out right now and all most people want to do is cool off in say the pool so here is a game for you. Beer/pool Basketball this game is played in a pool with a basketball net and ball the only catch is the rules is there really are no rules like in regular basketball such as there are no fouls. You can hold someone under water if they have a ball until they let go of the ball if this is what you wish to do. I am sure you are wondering how the beer gets involved well that part is pretty easy my friend if your team makes a shot then the other team must drink. You continue this until a team reaches the score of 15 points you can play to a different number if you would like but my family and friends think that this is a good number since none of us are that amazing at basket ball that we need the point total to be increased. However if you are good at the game of basket ball on land beware that as much as you think it is the same on land it really is not the same and there are a lot of differences because of the water but not only because of the water but also because there are no longer any rules and many people are not used to being fouled and or held on to during the game.

I rate this game at a 6 out of 10 because it is fun but if you do not have access to a pool that is a bit of a down fall.

Go Beer

Go beer is similar to go fish so yes it is about as basic as drinking games can and will get. First thing that you will need is a deck of cards. You will also need a group of people to play the game with you as well as alcohol. First you will deal out 7 cards to everyone that is playing then you will stick the rest of the cards in the center of the table. Each person is trying to get a match (a match consists of 2 of the same number and color for example a 2 of clubs and a 2 of spades would be a match however a 2 of hearts and 2 of spades is not a match because they are not the same color) one a person has a match they put it down and they get to give out a drink you can only give out a drink to someone who does not have a match until everyone has a match then you can give it to anyone that you would like to. The first person will ask anyone they want if they have a match if they do you have to drink if they do not have your matching card then you must drink and you will “go beer” and pick up a card from the center of the pile and then the next person will ask someone else if they have a card (do you have a 3 of clubs?). This continues until all the cards are gone or all of the players have matched all of their cards whichever comes up first.

I rate this game at a 3 out of 10 because it can get you drunk to fast also it is easy so everyone can play it but it does not require skill and people can gang up on one person giving them all of the drinks.

Drink Jenga

The way that everyone I know has played this is they bought an original Jenga box and write on the pieces something to do on each piece some of them are blank also. They will write things on the wooden pieces such as drink for 3 seconds usually the numbers 1 to 15 are on there so that will take care of 15 of the blocks also they have another fifteen blocks say give out drinks and once again these are labeled from 1 to 15. Then there is usually one that says take a shot and one that says give a shot. The rest you can leave blank or put anything else on it that you would like such as waterfall. Then you play like you would regularly play Jenga you take out one piece at a time if you are able to pull the piece out you do what the piece says and you place it on top however if you are unsuccessful and you must drink a whole beer or take a shot you need to establish this before the game starts. What I mean by unsuccessful is if you knock over the tower and it collapses then you lose. You also are the one who has to rebuild the tower for the next round.

I rate this game at a 9 out of 10 because a lot of people can play also you were able to choose what you wanted to write on the blocks so you have some control over the game. It is a lot of fun and I recommend that you play it.

Beer Olympics

Beer Olympics is another thing that you can kind of do as a themed party and or event. This is usually an all day event that many people do not make it through and breaks will need to be taken since everyone ends up getting extremely intoxicated just a warning I am telling you before you decide to go and do this. You just need to pick a bunch of your favorite drinking games and play them. Make sure that you have a lot of beer some common choices are flippy cup, beer pong, also you can do a keg toss (see who can toss a keg the farthest). You can have a relay and have the first person drink a beer then run to the next and then they have to drink there beer and then so on until they get to the last player and that player must cross the finish line. Get medals and or prizes for each place 1^st , 2^nd and 3^rd or you can have each place be worth so many points and then at the end of the day the top three point scores can get the medals if there is a tie you can have a tie breaker challenge such as something simple like drinking a beer. If you would like more ideas on this beer Olympic idea I will be posting an article on my website about it by this Friday and you can and should check it out at http://partyindrink.webs.com.

I have never hosted my own but I have gone to some beer Olympic events and many of my friends have and they all have a phenomenal time.

Beer Hunt

Beer hunt is originated off of Easter egg hunts that are done around Easter. Have everyone bring a six pack of cold beer that is coming and then when they get there (have them all try to show up around the same time so the beers do not get warm) everyone has to hide three of their beers and stick the other three in the fridge for other games later. Then once everyone has hid the beers (make sure everyone labels the beers so you know who’s beer is who’s) everyone is to start looking for other beers once you find one whoever’s beer that you find they have to stop looking and then they are to drink the beer that you found. Once all three of your beers are found you are knocked out and are no longer allowed to look. Also you cannot look while you are drinking a beer so drink it quickly. The last person left wins and gets to enjoy the remaining beers at their leisure. Another variation of this is to label one of your three beers as drink and whoever finds that one has to drink it that way it slows some people up who are really good at finding other people’s beers instead of you always having to drink when yours gets found. The only thing is many people do not hide those beers as well as their other beers.

I rate this game at 6 out of 10 because you can have as many people as you want play. The only thing is you are consuming a lot of alcohol in a short period of time if you did not hide your beers well which means you will be pretty much intoxicated at the beginning of the party.

Power Hour

Power hour may be the simplest game when it comes to drinking that has ever been created it is however not the smartest one. It is actually an extremely bad idea but I will still talk about it since I am trying to be unbiased enough to list games that I do not like. Just because I do not like it does not mean that everyone dislikes it some people love this game for a pregame and it basically should just be called get drunk as quickly as possible but here is how it goes. Following this is a group of you tube links in order to how they are to be played it will count to 60 for you along with playing music for you. You can choose any one you want or even make your own just make sure it is an hour long. Also make sure that it counts down for you each minute since it is easier when it keeps track for you since as time goes on the more intoxicated you will get and you will stop keeping track of every minute. You will also need beer and a shot glass for each person that is playing. The games is simple you are to take one shot of beer every minute. This may sound simple and at first it is but then when you think about it you will be doing 60 shots in an hour that is a lot of alcohol really fast. It depends on the size of the shot glass but that is a little over 7 beers in an hour. I do not recommend or encourage this game because most people puke and it is a game that is basically asking for your liver to die and hate you. I would rate this game a 1 out of 10 just because the concept of it is stupid the whole goal is to make it to the end which many people do not.

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Uno

I am sure that you are all familiar with the game of Uno however if you are not any box of Uno will tell you the rules on it. My friends and I last year changed the game that we all know and love into a drinking game. It is now one of our favorite games that we play all of the time now. You may be wondering how exactly we did this well you are in luck since I am going to tell you and the best part about it is how simple it actually is to play just like the original game is. You get the same amount of cards and the rules are the same as the original with a few twists such as a draw 2 you drink 2 and a draw 4 you take a shot. Also if someone puts down a draw 2 then you can put a draw 2 down on top of it and so can the next person and then whoever does not have a draw 2 gets stuck drinking that many times so if three people in a row had a draw 2 then that person would have to drink 6. Draw 4 is different and you cannot put them on top of each other to “save yourself.” The other rule that is different is that every time the reverse card comes up the person that it reverses to has to drink. Lastly the skip, whoever gets skipped gets to give out a drink to whomever they would like other then the person that skipped them.

I rate this game a 9 out of 10 since I enjoy it a lot it is also extremely easy to understand and you can have a bunch of people playing it if you would like to.

LCR

Left, Right, Center is a game that my family started playing a while ago after they were introduced to it on one New Years Eve. Every person puts in three dollars you will also need three dice you can actually get dice that have an L, C, R on them along with a dot if you cannot find these you can make certain numbers the letters such as 6 is L, 5 is a R, 4 is C and one threw three are dots. You will also need to put a cup in the center. Each person has a drink all of them you probably want the same since you do not want to be mixing drinks and you will go in a circle whoever starts rolls as many dice as they have dollars (so at the start everyone has 3 dollars so you will roll 3 dice) then you do what the dice tell you to do each dice represents what you are to do with one of your dollars also what you are to do with drinks, if you get a dot you get to keep your dollar and no drinks are given out taken for that die, if it is an R this means the person on your right has to take a drink but also gets a dollar same for the person on your left for an L . If you get a C your dollar goes in the center of the table and you get to pour as much as you want into the center cup of beer (or drink of choice). Then your turn is over. If you run out of dollars you have to chug the center cup if anything is in it. If there is nothing in it you just got lucky. The winner is the person who ends up with that last dollar. Also remember you are not out once you run out of dollars since the person next to you could still pass it to you.

I would rate this game at a 7 out of 10 because it is pure luck and does not take a bunch of talent to play.

Circle of Death

Circle of Death is a fun game to play with a group of people and once again this is a great game since you can have as little as two people play and us to as many as you want what you will need is a cup in the center of the table and a deck of cards that you will place around the cup in a circle like pattern. Then each player will pick up a card one at a time and each card means something different and they must follow that rule the rules are as follows…… the numbers one threw six if its red you must drink for that many seconds, if its black you get to tell that many people to drink this can be given to whoever you want or you can split it up ( if you had a black 6 you could give one person 3 and another 3) the number 7 is ladies drink and the number 8 is guys drink. Now the fun cards start coming up card number 9 is rhyme the dealer picks a word and in a clockwise circle the next person must rhyme the word, and then the first person that pauses or repeats a word drinks. 10 the person to the left of you drinks and a jack it is the person to your right that drinks. Queen you have to pick a category such as types of pop (Pepsi, Coke, Dr. Pepper)and the same rules apply as rhyming the first person to screw up and pause or repeat drinks. King the first three that are pulled get to pour as much beer as they want into the center cup as they want however whoever gets the fourth card has to drink everything that ends up being in the cup. Lastly is the ace which is a waterfall- whoever pulls the ace states which way the waterfall is going to go right, or left, and everyone starts drinking on the count of 3 when the person who pulls the card stops drinking the person who is next can stop when they please and so on but you must drink as long as the person before you is so if your last it is very unfortunate for you.

I rate this game at about 8 out of 10 because it is an easy game and as many people as you have at your party can play if they would want to. It is also a very easy game to understand and to play. It is also funny listening to people try to come up with words that rhyme with the word that was chosen and people trying to think of things in categories.

Beer Pong

This is one of my favorite games it might just be because I am good at it and because everywhere you go in a college town you can find people that are playing it. It is a game that can be very entertaining also. It is good because you can make it into a tournament type of game and have a lot of people involved. Some people have parties strictly off of a theme of a Beer Pong Tournament. This is a fun idea just have people bring a partner and get some huge posters and as people arrive add them to the brackets that you have created. I have seen people make trophies for the winner of the tournament and the trophies are a lot of fun since they are made out of beer cans many times.

Most people are familiar with the game beer pong but in case you are unaware I will explain it as simply as possible.

Need:

Table

20 cups (such as red solo cups)

2 other cups for water

2 ping pong balls

You will have 2 teams playing at a time each team has 2 players and is as opposite ends of the table. Each team gets 11 cups one for water to dip the ball in the other 10 is to make a triangle with just like bowling pins are lined up like on your end of the table. Then fill the cups to the desired about with Beer.

If you are playing at someone else’s house ask them what their house rules are since there are a lot of rules that some people follow others do not so I am just going to go over the basics that almost every place will have. If you are the host make sure you know what rules you want to play with. To decide who goes first a player from each team has a ping pong ball and looks the other straight in the eye and shoots without looking at the cups only at the opponent and whoever makes it in first gets to go first. From there both players on a team shoot one ball each at the opponents’ cups trying to make it in kind of like bozo buckets. If you make a ball in a cup the other team has to drink that cup, if you bounce the ball in the other team has to drink two cups. You want to be the one with cups left in the end, the loser is whoever loses there cups first. Also if both team mates make their ball into the cup they get them back and get to shoot again. Also for the last cup both balls have to be made in otherwise the other team gets a redemption type of chance where they get to shoot till they miss. If they miss then the other team wins. Also if a ball is bounced you can block it but if it is just shot you may not block the ball. Good luck playing!

Check out this Blogger his game is called Brent Musburger Drinking Game also learn how to play flippy cup

Check this blog post out it is a good one and Another fun blog to look at http://www.fanblogs.com/ncaa/005660.php in this blog he talks about a game that he created off of something as simple as a college football game. It is a game that he made up completely based off the commentary that is spoken. This just shows that you can make a drinking game out of anything. Also what is better than a football game with a beer in your hand anyway? It will keep all people entertained even the guests that you have that are not into football since they will be paying attention to catch the different things that are going on in the commentary so everyone is happy.

Flippy Cup

This game is great because it can have as little as 2 people playing to over 20people. The only important thing is that you have an even number of players. Also the only think you need to play is a table and cups such as solo cups and beer. The set up is to put equal teams on each end of the table in a line. Then each person gets a cup this cup is to be filled to a desired amount usually to about the first line in a solo cup. To start the game the first person in line on each team is to pick up their cup tap it with the opponents then tap it on the table once the cup taps the table drink the beverage as quickly as possible. Once the content is gone you are to with one finger flip over your cup (place cup half on edge of table and flip over with one finger). Once you get your cup to flip over and land upside down the next payer drinks and does the same. This game is like a relay race whichever team finishes first wins.
I would rate this game pretty average about 6 out of 10. I think that it is a fun and easy game but there are a lot more games out there that are more fun. In my personal experience it is also a good game to do guys vs. girls since the teams are not to uneven and it’s a game where both genders are pretty even at.