So I was talking to a friend last night about the drinking games he plays. It’s funny how most games center around having a dice or cards but the absence of such items don’t seem to stop people from playing games to get each other drunk. Here are the 2 of many that I like:
1) “A shot for every time you touch your phone”.
Somebody told me that he had read this online at first but it’s an extremely simple game. Everyone sits around the table and has casual drinks. But every time somebody takes out his phone to check his messages or Twitter or anything, that person takes a shot.
I love the idea of this because it turns the most “anti-social” habit that we all do, into a very social one. You be anti-social, but you make everyone else laugh about it.
2) TV Drinking Games
A well-known game some years ago was the “24 drinking game”.
See if you watch 24, you’d notice that Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) would go through the most intense action scenes and at all times he’s not allowed to curse the F word or anything around those lines. So he ends up saying the word “Dammit” a lot.
So college students back then started a drinking game where they would watch 24 and every time Jack Bauer said “Dammit”, everyone would have to drink a shot. Kiefer Sutherland eventually found out about the game so he started playing with his fans, saying “Damn it” as many as 14 times in one episode. Or saying 3 dammits in a row like “DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!”. I remember seeing that.
You can read more about it here.
This concept of a drinking game carries on today to all sorts of different TV shows and even to football matches. This friend of mine was telling me how they would all gather around with shots to watch a football match. Then they would all list down a list of “approved triggers” in which every time one of those things happen in a match, the person who is assigned it has to take a shot. Examples are like:
i) Every time there is a corner kick.
ii) Every time there is a free kick
iii) Every time there is a header
iv) Every time one team loses possession of the ball to the other team.
v) Every time the other team loses possession of the ball to the team you’re taking.
vi) Every time there is a foul.
vii) Every time the referee blows his whistle.
I say “approved triggers” because whatever action you suggest you want to take has to be something everyone approves of. For example, nobody is going to approve of you taking a shot only when a goal is scored because that happens too infrequently compared to the rest. My friend told me that of all the drinking games he’s played, that… was the most fun.
So what other drinking games do you guys normally play?
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space