Drinking Games

Drinking Games from publishers Summersdale has 52 uproarious drinking games that are guaranteed to get the party started, and all in a playing cards sized box.

Drinking Games! Oh dear, those drinking games we used to enjoy as students and should have given up when we grew up. However, some of us never grow up and can’t resist the occasional drinking game, maybe at Christmas or on stag nights and hen nights.

What Are Drinking Games?

Well, it is just possible that some people don’t know what a drinking game is. For their benefit, a drinking game is any kind of game where you have to take a drink as a forfeit, or if you lose out on your turn. It could be a card game, a memory game, a physical challenge game, or any kind of game where each player can either succeed or fail at something.

And if you fail, you take a drink – usually a shot of tequila or whisky, or perhaps a mouthful of beer… or more.

A drinking game can also be a Drink or Dare challenge, where you either carry out a dare… or refuse, and take a drink instead.

Drinking Games

Publishers Summersdale have now brought out a box of 52 drinking games that is the size of a small deck of cards but contains, as they say, ’52 games to get the party started’. About two-thirds of the games are regular drinking games and the rest are Drink or Dare challenges.

With the drinking games, the front of the card tells you how many players you’ll need: at least two, three, four or more, though most can have any number of players. It also tells you anything else you might need, like a deck of cards, a pen and paper, sticky tape or a paper bag, for example, though the vast majority need nothing more than players and drinks.

On the other side of each card are the rules. The cards are small so the rules have to be simple, as who wants a complicated drinking game. Simple and silly are the main requirements.

Dice, Dice Baby

Take ‘Dice, Dice Baby’, which needs just two or more players and two dice. These are the rules:

Take it in turns to roll the dice. You must drink if you roll a double, if you roll a six on either dice, or if you roll a six in total. Roll the dice until you get numbers that do not require you to drink.

As with many drinking games, there’s nothing that makes someone the winner, or makes someone drop out… except getting to the stage where you can’t drink any more!