Welcome, intrepid seekers of ethylic fun, alcoholics without borders and students from all the universities of the world! In this digital corner, where shots are more infectious than laughter, we'll dive into the fascinating and fuzzy universe of drinking games. Get ready to leave sobriety behind and embrace liquid joy as we explore the rules of several popular games that will make you laugh, cry and commit acts I shouldn't write about here. Hold on tight to your glasses or cups as I give you a tour of all the games I've been able to try up to this day at the expense of my liver's health.
Description:
This game requires a phone with internet connection. The group inputs the name of all the players into the magical orb and press play. Parte will give out a series of random questions, games, dares and rules (including all the games in this post) that you have to follow unless you want to drink. The game currently collects over 3200 different “cards”, it’s updated weekly with new ones and is free to play. To start playing click here or go to our main page.
Personal rating and comment: 5/5
The game is fun and engaging, keeping everyone on its toes. It creates a vibrant atmosphere with unique games and interesting topics, basically guaranteeing that the whole group ends up drunk and ready to party. It doesn’t need explaining or any preparation and it eliminates the need to keep coming up with new questions or games (which is harder to do the drunker you are). The game offers all of its contents for free unlike the apps on the Play or Apple store and doesn’t need downloading since it’s a website.
Description:
This game requires a coin. The player who has the coin has to choose a person to give the coin to and ask them a question in private without anyone else overhearing. The person who received the coin has to answer the question out loud and then flip the coin. If it comes up heads, the question is said out loud for the rest of the group to hear, if it comes up tails, the question is not revealed. The player who answered gives the coin to whomever they want and asks them another question to continue the game. The person who gets the coin drinks. In addition, every time the coin is tossed and heads comes up, everyone must drink.
Personal rating and comment: 4/5
The game is fun and has enough variability to keep it from being boring for quite some time. Hearing the answer before the question makes for some funny situations and the fact that some questions are never known creates an atmosphere of anticipation and drama.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Players must sit in a circle and look down. On the count of three, everyone looks up at another person. People who match each other's gaze must drink.
Personal rating and comment: 2/5
It's a game without much to it, it gets boring pretty fast, but it's easy to explain and play when you're already drunk.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. The group chooses two people who will sit with their backs to each other and take turns asking them questions such as "Which of the two is more likely to cause an accident?" or "Which of the two is more envious?". The two players must choose between the two of them who they think best fits the answer. If their answers are different they must both drink.
Personal rating and comment: 3/5
This is a fun game even though it only allows two people to participate. It is especially funny when two people with a special relationship are chosen as players, such as a pair of siblings, a couple, or someone and their crush...
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Players will take turns asking questions such as "Who is the funniest?" or "Who is the most likely to get divorced?" out loud and on the count of three, all players must point to the player they think most closely matches the answer. Players who have been pointed at drink as many times as people have pointed at them.
Personal rating and comment: 4/5
This variant of "who is more" is more fun than the pairs variant, as the whole group actively participates, but it can get boring after a while if no juicy questions are asked.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Each person is asked to rank the other participants in the group, for example "Rank from funniest to least funny" or "Rank from most gossipy to least gossipy". Play this game at your own risk, as it tends to cause quite a bit of drama and tension in the group if you are not all very good friends. Players who have been chosen "the most" and "the least" must drink.
Personal rating and comment: 1/5
In most rounds someone gets offended. The game usually doesn't last long due to lack of participation either for not wanting to offend anyone or for not wanting to get offended. Only suitable for professional drunkards and very based people.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Everyone takes turns saying "Never have I ever" statements, such as "Never have I ever masturbated on a train" or "Never have I ever forged my parents' signature". People who have done so must drink.
Personal rating and comment: 3/5
A classic game that almost all of us have played. It usually causes funny and awkward moments and more than one person will lie or feel embarrassed at some point. The game usually lasts a good while if you make varied and well thought out questions.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Sitting in a circle the players take turns saying the numbers from 1 to 21 in order. When 21 is reached, a new rule is made, like "number 6 has to stand up and jump" and the game starts again from the beginning. Each time a player makes a mistake he drinks and the game starts again from number 1. For example, if the player that said 6 didn’t not jump, he has to drink and the next player starts a new round from number 1. The game ends when you manage to make 21 rules or when you are so drunk that you can't stand straight.
Personal rating and comment: 5/5
It's a great game that creates tragic moments, it causes a lot of laughter and makes people shout and curse. Everyone actively participates and everyone ends up drinking. The best games happen when you set the stupidest rules you can think of, here are a couple of examples:
Description:
This game requires cups (or glasses) and a Ping Pong ball. Classic game seen in Hollywood movies. It is a very flexible game with no official version. It consists of two teams trying to shoot the ball into the opposing team's cups (3 to 10 cups per team are typically used). Each time a ball falls into a cup, the team suffers a punishment and that cup is removed from the game. The team that runs out of cups first loses.
Personal rating and comment: 3/5
It is such a variable game that depending on the specific rules it can be really entertaining or really boring. The active participation of everyone makes it an attractive option, but the need for cups and a ball limits its uses to specific instances and places.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. The game is basically this: for the rest of the day (or night, or week, or month) no one is allowed to drink with their dominant hand. If someone catches another person drinking with their dominant hand and shouts "Buffalo", that person must finish the rest of their drink in one go.
Personal rating and comment: 2/5
The game is not that thrilling but if played passively throughout the afternoon or evening (or longer) it can be quite fun.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Take turns asking truth or dare questions. If you choose “truth” the group will have to ask you a question of any kind and you will have to tell the truth. You can refuse by drinking a set amount of alcohol. On the other hand you can choose “dare” and the group will tell you what activity or challenge you have to perform, you can also refuse by drinking alcohol.
Personal rating and comment: 3/5
It is a fun game, but the constant need to be thinking up new questions and dares makes it difficult to play for long periods of time. On the other hand, it’s hard to get drunk playing this game.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Players take turns adding one word each to build a sentence together. Each player has to say the whole sentence before adding a new word. The first one to make a mistake drinks and the game starts again.
Personal rating and comment: 1/5
It's a boring game and it's not even good for getting drunk. If you like this game, I’m sorry to say this, but you are an absolute geek.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. One player starts by saying any word and in turns each player has to say a word that begins with the same syllable in which the previous word ends, for example; calculator, torpedo, donut... The player who makes a mistake or takes too long drinks.
Personal rating and comment: 2/5
The game is very simple to grasp, and it is quite fun for a short while, as it is easy to play and it’s fairly competitive.
Description:
This game requires a coin and a glass (and a hard surface). Take turns trying to bounce a coin off a table so that it ends up in the glass (or cup). Whoever bounces the coin into the glass chooses who should drink and if a player bounces the coin into the glass three times in a row they can make a rule that all players must follow until the end of the game.
Personal rating and comment: 4/5
It’s a simple game to explain and play. It’s dynamic, fun and requires the active participation of the whole group. The added reward of making rules makes the game more competitive and the rules themselves make the game more interesting. Here are some fun rules you can add:
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. One person has to ask another one a question, any question, and they in turn have to do the same to any other player and so on until one player fails to ask a coherent question or is too slow in doing so. When someone fails they have to answer the question truthfully and drink.
Personal rating and comment: 3/5
It is an easy and dynamic game, quite competitive although it may not seem so. It requires active participation of all players, concentration and mental agility. It’s a game more focused on asking uncomfortable questions and spilling the tea than getting drunk, but it’s still fun.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. Players take turns asking one question that everybody except them has to answer. For example one player asks “When was the last time you masturbated?” and everybody takes turns answering. If someone doesn’t want to answer they have to drink.
Personal rating and comment: 2/5
It's more of a gossip game than a drinking game, but it can be fun if you don't feel like getting drunk. The questions can get very juicy if that’s something that interests you.
Description:
This game does not require any equipment. On each turn a player says "I drink because I know...", takes a sip of his drink and completes the sentence with some trivia, for example; "I drink because I know the capital of Somalia" or "I drink because I know which actor played Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs". People who don't know the answer drink. People who do know the answer raise their glass or hand and answer at the same time along with the player that asked the question. If they get it right they don’t drink, if they answered incorrectly they drink twice as much. And if the person who asked the question did not know the correct answer, they drink three times as much.
Personal rating and comment: 4/5
It’s a fun and competitive game that requires the active participation of the whole group. It tends to cause a lot of drinking and it becomes more chaotic the more it is played. Apart from trivia you can also play with "skills" that the players have. For example, someone could say "I drink because I know how to do a cartwheel" or "I drink because I know how to touch my foot with my nose" and the game is played using the same principles.