![]() Some say that the most important skill to improving speed is to relax and take fewer but larger gulps. Examples of such drinking games are Edward Fortyhands, boat races, beer bonging, shotgunning, flippy cup (a team-based speed game), and yard. Many pub or bar games involve competitive drinking for speed. Speed Bonging is popular among college students. Power hour and its variant, centurion, fall under this category. It can be as simple as two people matching each other drink for drink until one of the participants "passes out". Tolerance games are simply about seeing which player can last the longest. Often drinking large amounts will be combined with a stylistic element or an abnormal method of drinking, as with the boot of beer, yard of ale, or a keg stand. Such games can also favor speed over quantity, in which players race to drink a case of beer the fastest. Some games have rules involving the "cascade", "fountain", or "waterfall", which encourages each player to drink constantly from their cup so long as the player before him does not stop drinking. Players take turns taking shots, and the last person standing is the winner. The simplest drinking games are endurance games in which players compete to out-drink one another. Players fill both the large cup and the smaller cup that swings beneath it, and must drink from the former without spilling the latter. ![]() Silver wager cups, originally used during 16th century German wedding feasts, are used in dexterity drinking games. The loser had to chalk up a figure such as a swallow, a wheel or a pair of scissors depending on the number of minus points gained and was only allowed to erase them once he had drunk the associated amount of beer. If his opponent beat it, he might say "hang the Unterkasser" ( Hängt den Unterkasser). Everytime a card was played, it was supposed to be accompanied by humorous words, so if a Jack or Unter was played, the player might say something like "my merry Unterkasser" ( Lustig mein Unterkasser) or "long live my Unterkasser" ( Vivat mein Unterkasser). A player who used the normal names was penalised. So the cards ( Karten) were called 'spoons' ( Löffel), the Sevens were 'Septembers' and the Aces were the 'Juveniles' ( junge Leichtsinn). One feature of the game was that everything went under a different name from normal. But the "crown of all drinking games" was one with an ancient and distinctive name: Cerevis. Germany A wager cup ĭrinking games in 19th century Germany included Bierskat, Elfern, Rammes and Quodlibet, as well as Schlauch and Laubober, probably the same game as Grasobern. : 146 There was another game where little puppets and dolls dressed as western foreigners with blue eyes ( Iranian peoples) were set up and when one fell over, the person it pointed to had to empty his cup of wine. : 146 If a guest was considered a 'coward' for dropping out of the game, he could be branded as a 'deserter' and not invited back to further drinking bouts. : 146 These referees were used mainly for maintaining order (as drinking games often became rowdy) and for reviewing faults that could be punished with a player drinking a penalty cup. : 145–146 There were even drinking game referee officials, including a 'registrar of the rules' who knew all the rules to the game, a 'registrar of the horn' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a 'governor' who decided one's third call of offense. : 145 During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc. Ancient China ĭrinking games were enjoyed in ancient China, usually incorporating the use of dice or verbal exchange of riddles. Often, there were special prizes and penalties for one's performance in the game. Players would use dregs (remnants of what was left in their cup) to hit targets across the room with their wine. Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games from ancient Greece, dated to the 5th to 4th centuries BC. History Ancient Greece Symposium, with scene of Kottabos - fresco from the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, 475 BC Drinking games have been banned at some institutions, particularly colleges and universities. Evidence of the existence of drinking games dates back to antiquity. Game which involves the consumption of alcoholic beverages Beer pong is a drinking game in which players throw ping pong balls across a table, attempting to land each ball in a cup of beer on the other end.ĭrinking games are games which involve the consumption of alcoholic beverages and often enduring the subsequent intoxication resulting from them.
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