Little fun drinking game
December 31, 2011 8:30 AM Subscribe
My girlfriend drinks very little alcohol, but eventually she will drink a glass of champagne and maybe a beer today. We are having a private new Years party for the both of us and I want to do a little drinking game just for fun, maybe 30 min with shot glasses of beer. So does anybody know a fun little game? It should not be something kinky, or like "drink or tell". All the drinking games I know are quite hardcore and not suited well for this occasion. It may include some acrobatics, like running around a table or some such as we will have no bystanders. Thanks! (Our New Year's eve is in 6h, she comes home in 4, so hurry up)
Can you do the power (half-)hour? A shot of beer every minute on the minute for however long you play for...
If you're going to watch the ball drop on one of the TV shows, you should agree to take a drink every time the host says something that is corny optimistic about 2012 (or every time you hear a crack about the Mayan calendar).
posted by AMSBoethius at 9:54 AM on December 31, 2011
If you're going to watch the ball drop on one of the TV shows, you should agree to take a drink every time the host says something that is corny optimistic about 2012 (or every time you hear a crack about the Mayan calendar).
posted by AMSBoethius at 9:54 AM on December 31, 2011
A fun, short game that involves small amounts of drinking is Quarters. There are a bunch of different variations but the long and the short of it is that you try to bounce a quarter into a glass. If one person is successful the other drinks. You can size the glass to make it more or less difficult (and thus more or less drinking) depending on the surface - for low-bounce surfaces you can use a shotglass, etc.
Another game we play involves a randomized deck of cards. You take turns flipping over the cards one by one and each card has a little task - we had very ritualized ones but you can pick whatever you like. Acrobatic tasks like "Last person to touch the floor drinks" or "Last person to touch their face drinks" are pretty fun for a two person game. I can write out my group's rules if you'd like.
posted by muddgirl at 10:12 AM on December 31, 2011
Another game we play involves a randomized deck of cards. You take turns flipping over the cards one by one and each card has a little task - we had very ritualized ones but you can pick whatever you like. Acrobatic tasks like "Last person to touch the floor drinks" or "Last person to touch their face drinks" are pretty fun for a two person game. I can write out my group's rules if you'd like.
posted by muddgirl at 10:12 AM on December 31, 2011
Response by poster: If you could spare the time that would be really nice!
posted by SweetLiesOfBokonon at 10:31 AM on December 31, 2011
posted by SweetLiesOfBokonon at 10:31 AM on December 31, 2011
This might not apply to your girlfriend, maybe she has expressed that this is good for her, but I just want to mention it in case it hadn't come up or you hadn't thought about it:
I drink very little alcohol, but occasionally there will be an event where I will have a couple drinks. A drinking game would be the absolute last thing I would want to do in these circumstances -- they're basically setups where I would feel pressured to drink at your rate instead of at mine. I don't drink very well, and I want to be able to control my intake, and the whole point of drinking games is to lose control of your intake to some outside force (your skill, someone else's skill, luck, etc.)
Again, you know your girlfriend and you may have thought about whether she would like this pressure better than I would, but I know some people who like to drink more than I do who it hasn't occurred to them that when I do drink I need to do it on my own terms if I want it to be fun, so I wanted to mention it.
posted by brainmouse at 10:33 AM on December 31, 2011 [12 favorites]
I drink very little alcohol, but occasionally there will be an event where I will have a couple drinks. A drinking game would be the absolute last thing I would want to do in these circumstances -- they're basically setups where I would feel pressured to drink at your rate instead of at mine. I don't drink very well, and I want to be able to control my intake, and the whole point of drinking games is to lose control of your intake to some outside force (your skill, someone else's skill, luck, etc.)
Again, you know your girlfriend and you may have thought about whether she would like this pressure better than I would, but I know some people who like to drink more than I do who it hasn't occurred to them that when I do drink I need to do it on my own terms if I want it to be fun, so I wanted to mention it.
posted by brainmouse at 10:33 AM on December 31, 2011 [12 favorites]
Best answer: We call this game King's Cup, but the rules are very different. A "Drink" is usually a sip - people can self-regulate.
(A) Face: Last person to touch their face drinks
(2) You: The person who flipped the card picks someone else to drink (for two people, that's just the other person
(3) Me: The person who flipped the card drinks
(4) Floor: Last person to touch the floor drinks (if you're sitting on the floor, you can change this to some other funny target)
(5) Sky: Last person to raise their hand drinks
(6) Ladies drink
(7) This is sort of a free choice slot. With large groups we'd pick one person and this would be their card. You could put another rule here. (Suggestion: Race to find a funny object in the apartment. Least funny/surreal object takes a drink)
(8) Pick a date (for two people, this means both of you drink)
(9) Bust a rhyme - the person who pulls the card says a sentence and you have to go back and forth rhyming that sentence. The person who can't rhyme drinks
(10) Categories: The person who pulls the card names a category like "Television comedies" or "Car manufacturers" or "Brands of beer" and you go back and forth naming items in that category. If you can't think of one, you drink.
(J) Men drink.
(Q) Everyone drinks (since there are two of these for two people, you could put another rule here)
(K) In King's Cup, this is generally the card where you add your drink to a common cup. Whoever draws the last king has to drink whatever's in the "King's Cup" - we hate this rule so if one draws a King, they can "Make a Rule" - "If you curse, take a drink" or "If you point, take a drink" or my favorite: "There's a little man sitting on your cup. Before you take a drink, you have to take the little man off, and then put him back on afterwards"
If you google King's Cup, you'll find bunches of different rules, so you can mix and match. I like these rules because they're mostly a bit silly, leading to a lot of face-slapping and falling off chairs and the like.
posted by muddgirl at 10:49 AM on December 31, 2011 [4 favorites]
(A) Face: Last person to touch their face drinks
(2) You: The person who flipped the card picks someone else to drink (for two people, that's just the other person
(3) Me: The person who flipped the card drinks
(4) Floor: Last person to touch the floor drinks (if you're sitting on the floor, you can change this to some other funny target)
(5) Sky: Last person to raise their hand drinks
(6) Ladies drink
(7) This is sort of a free choice slot. With large groups we'd pick one person and this would be their card. You could put another rule here. (Suggestion: Race to find a funny object in the apartment. Least funny/surreal object takes a drink)
(8) Pick a date (for two people, this means both of you drink)
(9) Bust a rhyme - the person who pulls the card says a sentence and you have to go back and forth rhyming that sentence. The person who can't rhyme drinks
(10) Categories: The person who pulls the card names a category like "Television comedies" or "Car manufacturers" or "Brands of beer" and you go back and forth naming items in that category. If you can't think of one, you drink.
(J) Men drink.
(Q) Everyone drinks (since there are two of these for two people, you could put another rule here)
(K) In King's Cup, this is generally the card where you add your drink to a common cup. Whoever draws the last king has to drink whatever's in the "King's Cup" - we hate this rule so if one draws a King, they can "Make a Rule" - "If you curse, take a drink" or "If you point, take a drink" or my favorite: "There's a little man sitting on your cup. Before you take a drink, you have to take the little man off, and then put him back on afterwards"
If you google King's Cup, you'll find bunches of different rules, so you can mix and match. I like these rules because they're mostly a bit silly, leading to a lot of face-slapping and falling off chairs and the like.
posted by muddgirl at 10:49 AM on December 31, 2011 [4 favorites]
Beeramid
It's a fairly reasonable game as long as you play with sips of beer and not shots...
posted by empath at 11:04 AM on December 31, 2011
It's a fairly reasonable game as long as you play with sips of beer and not shots...
posted by empath at 11:04 AM on December 31, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks for your answers! Reading the site recommended by oceanjesse I remembered we got some ping pong ballls at home, so we will simply play some beer pong, maybe up to 15 points ( 0,3l beer is enough) and I will somehow mix in some of the ideas from the cards muddgirl mentioned!
posted by SweetLiesOfBokonon at 11:18 AM on December 31, 2011
posted by SweetLiesOfBokonon at 11:18 AM on December 31, 2011
You can also always alternate some cups of water/juice/whatever with the beer while playing beer pong, so that not every cup in your rack contains beer.
Basically any drinking game can be adapted to work in this way, or by the self-regulation muddgirl suggests (everyone decides what their definition of "one drink" will be.) That also takes the focus away from going drink for drink and puts it back on the fun of the game itself.
posted by superfluousm at 11:22 AM on December 31, 2011
Basically any drinking game can be adapted to work in this way, or by the self-regulation muddgirl suggests (everyone decides what their definition of "one drink" will be.) That also takes the focus away from going drink for drink and puts it back on the fun of the game itself.
posted by superfluousm at 11:22 AM on December 31, 2011
Seconding Kings - it is really not a heavy drinking game, and it provides lots of laughs and conversation along the the way. There are lots of variations on the rules and a lot of room for creativity, but people can get rather attached to their own versions. What I've usually seen is:
A - Waterfall (this is the only part of the game that really involves serious drinking - I like the "face" idea better)
2 - You
3 - Me
4 - Floor
5 - Guys (men drink)
6 - Chicks (ladies drink)
7 - Heaven (raise hands)
8 - Pick a mate
9 - Bust a rhyme
10 - Categories
J - Never have I ever (we do this with 3 fingers, first person to put down all 3 drinks - topics can be as clean or as dirty as participants choose; I use things like "never have I ever been bungee jumping" when playing with a more, uh, wholesome crowd). You can replace Jacks with something else if you don't see this going well, but I've known a lot of Kings-lovers who are pretty wedded to it.
Q - Questions (like the game in Whose Line - first person to respond with something other than a question drinks)
K - Make a rule/add to king's cup. Favorite rules include: "Before you drink, you must pay a compliment to someone else in the circle" or "If you use the words 'I' or 'me' you must drink"
Also, some people play that you can't break the circle of cards (if you play that the cards should start in sort of a tight fan around the king's cup) - if your drawing a card leaves a gap between cards, then you must take a drink/drink the king's cup/other consequence (make something up!).
This is seriously my favorite drinking game in the world.
posted by naoko at 2:02 PM on December 31, 2011 [1 favorite]
A - Waterfall (this is the only part of the game that really involves serious drinking - I like the "face" idea better)
2 - You
3 - Me
4 - Floor
5 - Guys (men drink)
6 - Chicks (ladies drink)
7 - Heaven (raise hands)
8 - Pick a mate
9 - Bust a rhyme
10 - Categories
J - Never have I ever (we do this with 3 fingers, first person to put down all 3 drinks - topics can be as clean or as dirty as participants choose; I use things like "never have I ever been bungee jumping" when playing with a more, uh, wholesome crowd). You can replace Jacks with something else if you don't see this going well, but I've known a lot of Kings-lovers who are pretty wedded to it.
Q - Questions (like the game in Whose Line - first person to respond with something other than a question drinks)
K - Make a rule/add to king's cup. Favorite rules include: "Before you drink, you must pay a compliment to someone else in the circle" or "If you use the words 'I' or 'me' you must drink"
Also, some people play that you can't break the circle of cards (if you play that the cards should start in sort of a tight fan around the king's cup) - if your drawing a card leaves a gap between cards, then you must take a drink/drink the king's cup/other consequence (make something up!).
This is seriously my favorite drinking game in the world.
posted by naoko at 2:02 PM on December 31, 2011 [1 favorite]
Make rules based on best guesses from a Lifetime Movie title, drink when appropriate.
For instance "drink for every flashback," "drink for every man in leather jacket," "drink when housewife is holding a glass of white wine in their kitchen; double shot if glass is being held incorrectly."
posted by Threeway Handshake at 2:23 PM on December 31, 2011 [2 favorites]
For instance "drink for every flashback," "drink for every man in leather jacket," "drink when housewife is holding a glass of white wine in their kitchen; double shot if glass is being held incorrectly."
posted by Threeway Handshake at 2:23 PM on December 31, 2011 [2 favorites]
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posted by oceanjesse at 8:54 AM on December 31, 2011