I can't believe you've never played Asshole before, Gwen. But anyway- what are y'all's fave drinking and/or card games?

Favorite card game:Mao Favorite drinking game: Spit or Swallow.

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2001

Answers

Beer pong!

okay, I'm a fraternity boy at heart...

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2001

Favorite drinking game? How about "I have a crush on you, so let's make out". That was my favorite, back in the day.

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2001

What's beer pong?

I used to be too good at quarters. By the rules I learned, that meant I never drank. That was okay with me.

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2001

Beer pong:

Basically ping pong, but the net is sometimes quite a bit taller to prevent aggressive playing (if all you can do is lob up over a high net, playing goes a little more slowly). As you can imagine, it's kind of regular ping pong and when the other team would normally "score", the team that erred must drink. No points are kept. You play until your mug is empty.

And on the ping pong table, each player places their beer mug in about 6-10 inches in on the table in front of them. The objective is to knock the ping pong ball into a beer mug belonging to a person on the opposing team. When you do it, and it's hard!, it's called Splorking. In our game, you then get to wear the Splork Hat.

After there has been a splorking, the person who owns the splorked mug gets one chance to toss, with his hand, the ping pong ball into the splorker's mug. When he misses (and he always misses) he's out and the next person comes in with a full mug of beer.

It's way fun. No, really it is! What makes it even more fun is that there must be two referees at all times, and each ref gets a flag (or stick or stuffed cat...anything). When there is an error, the refs must slam their flag on the side of the table which is to drink. If there is an unfortunate incident of the refs disagreeing, only refs drink. Drinks are charged to players for all sorts of thing: playing too aggressively, questioning the ref, goal tending, and not apologizing when you make a tricky play.

I'm sure lots of these are our own made up rules, but that is also part of the joy. The word "splork" may have been made up by the group that we play with, I have no idea. Who cares! There is no chugging and that's just fine with me.

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2001

Let's see - Asshole definately is my favorite drinking game. Except when I play it with gin and tonics. And when I'm asshole . But that's a story for another time.

Chandeliers is a game I liked in high school. I have no idea how it goes now. I also loved those alphabet games, but we usually played them while stoned ("Ok, topic is cheesy metal bands, Erin, you start. Ummm, AC/DC!")

I'm also a fan of "Get Drunk and MakeOut". I still play it, evem though I'm a little old to be doin' it :-)

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2001

My favourite drinking game would have to be ‘The Seven Circles of Hell’. Despite the title, which everyone who is introduced to the game assumes is a steal from Dante, game scholars have actually dated TSCoH back to the 6th century, which makes it one of the oldest surviving drinking games known to man (and also, rather neatly, it suggests that Dante pinched the ‘seven circles’ concept from the game – thereby giving rise to a new school of literary theory, which attempts to explain writing through pub culture … the school’s impact has been fairly limited to date.)

You start by racing to down a pint – the last person to finish becomes ‘the pilgrim’ and is sent out of the bar, or pub, or whatever, to begin a quest for spiritual enlightenment. Generally, this person will not be seen again during the rest of the evening (if at all) so it’s best to say your goodbye’s before they leave.

The second drink has to be consumed through a straw. The third has to be drunk entirely with a teaspoon. Everyone pours their fourth drink into a bucket, and then you all have to try and drink it at the same time. The person who finishes this round with the wettest clothes (judged by wringing the clothes out over a saucepan) then becomes ‘the guide’ and has to nominate one other person to accompany them to a destination chosen by throwing a dart at a map of the world. Again, both of these people could be gone for some time, so make sure they settle any debts in full before their departure.

The fifth drink has to be placed on a skateboard, which is then tied to the nearest dog, and everyone has to chase it.

The sixth drink is traditionally outsourced to another drinker in your immediate vicinity, the only catch being that, if the person accepting the drink then turns out to have been born in a month containing the letter ‘Y’, you have to marry them.

The final drink is consumed in a small room.

I’m not sure that it’s possible to have more fun than this.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2001

We play beer pong a little differently around here. The standard method is to place six cups in a triangular formation on either end of a table. Each team (of two people) takes turn tossing the ping pong ball into one of the other team's cups. There are some rules about where to stand and how far you can lean, etc. If you sink it they drink it and take away the cup. And so on until all the cups are gone from one side. Then another pair of contenders plays the winners. I'm not sure how you know the tournament is finally over; I never made it past my first round. Oh, and I play with wine or cocktails or whatever since I can't stand beer.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2001

My favorite drinking game is Kings. You take all the face cards and place them around a really big glass in the center of a table, people pick a card and for each one, something different happens: like you get to make up a rule everyone has to follow every time you get a Queen or you fill the big glass partway if you get a King, unless it's the last King, in which case you have to drink the big glass. But I don't really remember all the rules. I usually lose.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2001

I just realized Spit or Swallow sounds really gross if you don't know it, so I'll explain: The first person asks a question (e.g., "Spit or Swallow?"; "Black or White?"; "Up or Down?"; "Beer or Cocktails?" etc.) and everyone has to answer. If you have 4 players, and 3 say Spit and 1 says Swallow, the one who said swallow has to drink. If there's a tie, the person who asked the question has to drink. Then the next person asks a question, and so on.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2001

Drinking and Cards are not games. They should be left to hairy- chested types who carry firearms, drink whiskey neat and smoke skinny cigars...people who can tell brazen falsehoods with aplomb and panache and a straight face. Card gambling with women should be outlawed. Women are enough of a gamble as it is. And they cackle when they win. This fucks up the whole atmosphere of this serious endeavor.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2001

...and Robyn, I'm surprized to hear you're a boy. What with the vagina monologues and all, I had you figgered for a woman.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2001

Not a boy, Bubba, I was just teasing. And if I were a boy, I wouldn't join a fraternity, but they would all beat down my door trying to get me to join. I attract cool chicks like a mo fo.

Hey Scrnwrt, I was really wondering about the Spit or Swallow, but damned if I was going to be the person who asked.

My favorite game used to be Buzz, but I have never played it drinking. It was more of a stoner game. Nice and simple, you just count to 7 one person at a time, and the person who gets 7 must say Buzz instead of 7. Then it keeps going, next person is 8, next person is 9, but when you reach a number with 7 in it, or a multiple of 7, you must say Buzz, or you drink/toke/kiss the person next to you/whatever.

Okay, it's really kind of a boring game, but now that I think about it, it really just needed some made up rules to spice it up.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2001

I must live in a shoe box under the bed. I've never played drinking games. When I want to drink, I just pour/mix/whatever and drink. And if I want to get drunk, I just drink more. Somebody put the lid on and shove me back under the bed.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2001

One cold & dreary winter day in Ohio, my husband and I made up a game with which to get drunk (he wanted a buzz, we were bored...maybe not our proudest day but the game stuck). We call it "dead guy". Simply turn on MTV or VH-1 (the latter being the prefered station) and call out "dead guy" each time you hear or see someone formerly of the living. Then you chug in their honor. Sometimes you'll chug extra if you really liked the dead guy (girl) or if it was an extraordinary death. This is really a stupid game.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001