Reading Games

Okay people, for a change this has nothing to do with computers. :-)

A lot of people love to get plastered once in a while. Since drinking is ideally done with friends or friendly strangers in order to have fun and as such is a social event, mankind has invented a number of drinking games - the easiest being watching Wizard of Oz and taking shots every time somebody says 'Toto'. I'm presenting you two of my favourite drinking games here, and looking forward to learning about yours. Here we go: ...

The 'twenties game'

There really isn't an adequate translation for the Swiss-German original name; originally this game is named after the two .20 coins that are usually used to play.

You need:
Two coins, a big glass in the middle and an appropriate supply of alcohol (traditionally cider). Warning - don't use stuff with a high alcohol content, there's a good chance you'll get to drink more than you expect.

How to play:
The players take turns flipping the two coins. If you flip...
...a head (or eagle or whatever) and a number: one generous shot of alcohol goes into the glass.
...two heads: you empty the glass.
...two numbers: you pick somebody (this may be even you) to empty the glass.
If somebody empties the glass, one shot of alcohol is added before it's the next player's turn.

The great thing about this game is that it's easy enough that it can be played even with a considerably elevated blood alcohol level, and (thanks to the two-numbers rule) dynamic enough to be fun.

The 'seven' game

This one's rather easy and probably has about a million names, usually male first names. People count clockwise (first player says 'one', second player says 'two' etc.). If the number is a multiple of 7 or contains the digit 7, you say '[insert male first name]' instead. For every mistake you make you get to drink one shot. This is a rather mean game; the more you get to drink, the more mistakes you'll make which means more drinking.
Variation: Change direction from clockwise to counterclockwise and back every time somebody says 'insert male first name'.

On a not so unrelated side note, I would like to encourage people to have fun while drunk, drink responsibly and know when to stop. :-)

Consider yourself hugged.

Heh. The 'twenties game' is called Quarters here...

Also, I've seen chessboards made with shot glasses for the pieces. I think the goal is, that when you capture a piece, your opponent must dring the alcohol in the shotglass piece. I don't know. Never tried it. Wouldn't it be neat if all the pieces on one side were shots of Midori melon liqour, and on the other Chambord? Or -- less sweet -- Bush Mills Whiskey and Cuervo Gold Tequila (with little lime wedges on the side)? I mean quality alcohol figures heavily in the reduced intensity of hangovers, doesn't it?

But then again, it is almost sinful to contemplate shooting fine liquour. Better to shoot cheap liquor. So, scratch what I just said, unless your chess opponent is a slow player...then you can have yo sippin' whiskey. It's the intellectual's version of Quarters.

Me, my teatotaling ass will be on the sidelines, watching the loser get drunk off his butt, and making Bloody Mary's for everybody, to stave off their hangovers. Oh the fun of watching people get drunk! Let me know when you're good and sloshed and stoned. You are REALLY funny then.

Hey, if I ever get to Switzerland, I challenge you to a game of "Special Checkers", with 'special' chocolate chip cookies made with cannabutter as the playing pieces. Even though I've given up daily usage of pot, I still plan on a little recreational usage once in a while...and to that end am working on a recipe for "Special Chocolate Chip Cookies".

I'll raise my glass of "ass tea" to a game of "Special Checkers". {I just made that up.) *giggles* .....No, I'm not stoned right now. Sorry. :p

My mind is made up...not like my bed, which is a mess.

I mean quality alcohol figures heavily in the reduced intensity of hangovers, doesn't it?

I'm happy to say that I haven't had a real hangover in years. Since most hangovers are caused by dehydration or sulphured wine, avoiding cheap wine and drinking lots of fresh water before going to sleep helps a lot. :-)

Consider yourself hugged.

Ha, ha! Gotcha! No I'm not back...just stopping by. But...April Fool's anyway!!!!;PPPPP

You know, I recently found out that the red wine that is supposed to have all the antioxidants in it, is the cheap, vinegary stuff. But it gives you headaches too, like you said. ;/ Go figure.

Lots of water. Yes. That's always a good thing. Personally, I always used to like to take a Motrin 800 before bed too. That worked wonders. As does the proverbial Bloody Mary. Nowadays, I always order Virgin Bloody Marys, or as I like to call them: Bloody Virgins. I've saved a bottle of Edmonton Shiraz 1999, for a special occasion though...and am setting aside some Motrin for that one, even though it's not cheap wine.

Which reminds me: One of the worst alcohol-related headaches I ever had was due to Clicqot Champagne. Take care dude...I'm off again. Nice to see you!

By the way, I just got a pet iguana named Bruce, and I found out that I actually have three nipples! Also, I really do have a goat living in my high rise apartment. He's there for garbage control.

Nah, not really....April Fool's!

My mind is made up...not like my bed, which is a mess.

This post was edited by rosyxxx on Apr 01, 2006.

Heh. The 'twenties game' is called Quarters here...

'Round where I come from, Quarters is played by a group of people around a table. There are two cups between the whole of them, and the idea is to bounce the quarter off the table and into the glass, passing the glass along when you make it in. If you continually miss and end up with both glasses, you have to take a drink.

Another one I like is called Chandeliers. Each person has a glass around another single glass in the middle. One has to bounce the quarter off the table and into someone's glass. Whoever's glass it lands in has to drink. If you land in the center glass, everyone has to drink. If you make it into three glasses in a row, you get to make a Rule. For instance, my uncle once made the rule that before anyone took a drink, they had to proclaim his awesomocity to the rest of the table.

One I always liked to propose to my fellow Wal-Mart employees is the PLU game. You see, most fruits and vegatables in your Wal-Mart produce department are marked with a four-digit number that we use to check them out in place of the UPC barcode. After a while, these numbers come to mind straight off. 4011 for bananas, 4046 for avacodoes, 4087 for roma tomatoes, they come real quick. Most cashiers can remember a great many of them. A lot of times you can catch a couple of us quizzing each other on them. I suggest that these quizzes would be much more interesting if alcohol were involved. I figure it'd probably be about time to quit if no one could remember the PLU for bananas, as that is the commonly bought produce and the first code that any cashier will learn.

If ever there was an argument for sittin' down and shuttin' up, Henry Harrison is it.