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Oliver Rissato

Let's party! - 3 drinking game ideas to enjoy the summer with your friends


		A courtesy of Jeremy Bishop at Unsplash
A courtesy of Jeremy Bishop at Unsplash

Summer is coming and along with it, we can expect many pool parties to enjoy the heat. A lot of music, drinks and… games! Who hasn't played the classic beer pong? It’s a fun game to compete with your friends, but sometimes it's nice to give a chance and try new things, right?

That's why I'm here! To share three drinking games for you and your friends to have fun and take a break from the good old beer pong.


1. Flip Cup

This is the one I play the most with my friends. The rules are simple:

  • There are two teams

  • On a large table set two rows of cups full of beer (one row per team, lined up opposite each other)

  • Pick a song and choose a specific word of the music to be the start signal

  • When the game starts, the first player of each team needs to drink all the beer at once and flip the cup on the table until it lands upright

  • When you make it, the next player on that team starts drinking, and the game goes on until the last player in the row

  • The team who finishes all the cups first wins!


2. Horse Race

This is a betting game, and to play it you just need a standard card deck:

  • There will be four Horses (The Jacks from each suit)

  • Each player chooses a Horse to bet on. The ‘chips’ are shots, so each player can bet up to three shots in the Horse they think will win (I will get into more details about the bets soon) 

  • On the table put 7 random cards face down just like the picture. When everything is set up, we can start our game

  • Someone pulls up a card from the top of the deck, and the horse with the matching suit moves one house

  • When all four horses have passed the first line, reveal the first hidden card. The horse with the matching suit moves back a space

  • The game goes on until a horse reaches the finish line

  • The first horse to reach the final line wins!


Now that we have our winning Horse, it's time to get back the player's bets.

  • The players who lose the bets they made at the beginning of the game need to drink the number of shots they bet

  • The players who win the bet can choose someone to drink the amount of shots it bets


3. Auction

This one is to stir things up in your friend’s group. The rules are very simple:

  • Someone asks a secret question to another player. The answer to this question must be the name of someone in the group

  • If anyone wants to know what the question was, the person needs to take one shot

  • If another person wants to refuse to reveal the question, it needs to take two shots

  • Now, if anyone really wants to know the question, it takes three shots!

  • And the game goes on until no one is willing to bid anymore


Those are really fun games that I love playing with my friends, and I hope you guys enjoy them too! 

Remember to drink responsibly, and of course, don’t forget to have fun!


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