Vintage Drinking Game

Our loyal follower / compatriot / friend Lucile was recently abroad in Amsterdam and found this relic of a drinking game in the Rijksmuseum!

Still life with tall beer glass
Jan Jansz van de Velde
oil on panel, 1647

The text is referring to the above painting and reads:

The most striking object in this painting is the tall pasglas, a special beer glass which was part of a drinking game popular in the 17th century. When it was your turn, you had to drink just to the next ring -- no simple task for someone who had already had a few. If you missed that ring, you had to keep going until you the next one.

Sounds awesome! Where can we buy one of those glasses? We'd love to hear how you would update it (if at all)!

Dealbreakers and Dealmakers

Grab your friends and check out this spin on Never Have I Ever!

1. Ladies and/or Gents sit around in a circle

2. Each person goes around and says one DEALBREAKER and one DEALMAKER.

(Dealbreaker being defined as something that, if revealed in conversation in a bar would make you flee. Dealmaker is something that would make you take that person home immediately.)

3. For each dealbreaker / dealmaker stated, the following happens:

• If you AGREE with the statement, do NOT drink.
• If you DISAGREE with the statement, DRINK.
• If NO ONE agrees with the person's statement, said person has to drink.

4. If you cheat and help someone think of a dealbreaker or maker, you have to chug the rest of your drink.

(Thanks EB, Janna, Erin, Erin, Emily and Caitlin for this one!)

Slap Cup

You'll Need:
-- 6+ players
-- 2 Pingpong Balls
-- 27 solo cups.
-- A table
-- Mad beers

Rules

1. Put the 27 cups the middle of the table. You can arrange them as you see fit, but they should all be closely clustered together and not spread out. There should be room in front of everyone playing also. Each cup should be filled with 1/3 of the way of beer. (You know, like every other cup based drinking game ever)

2. Two players across from each other grab a cup of beer and a ping pong ball. They chug the beer in the cup, and then try to bounce the ball into the cup they just drained.

3. Two things can happen here:
a) If it takes you more than one shot to get the ball into the cup, you pass the cup to the person to your LEFT.
b) If you bounce the ball into the cup the FIRST TRY, you can pass the cup to any person in the circle. (Hint: You want to try pass it to the person behind the person still shooting.)

4. When two people are trying to bounce the ball into the cup, and no one is in between them, things get real. If you get the ball into the cup BEFORE the person to your left (who is also bouncing), SLAP THEIR CUP OFF THE TABLE. You then pass the cup and the ball to the next person to the left.

5. If you just got your cup slapped, grab a cup of beer from the middle, keep your ping pong ball, chug your beer and start bouncing again.

Got it? Get ready to never want to play flip cup again.

Other variations include: Putting a full cup of beer in the center of cluster of cups, so it is the 'last cup' and whoever loses must drink it.

Moose

This game is pretty similar to Up and Down The River, but uses an icecube tray and quarters instead of cards.

Rules
-- Grab an (empty) ice tray, a quarter, a cup of an alcoholic beverage of your choice and some beers. Prop the ice cube tray upright the long way on the cup. Sit around a table.
-- The left half of the tray will be the "give a drink" side. The right half will be the "take a drink" side.
-- Starting at the bottom, the drink designations for each cube will be 1 drink, 2 drinks, 4 drinks, 6 drinks, 8 drinks, quarter beer, half beer, full beer.
-- The first person to go has 3 chances to bounce his/her quarter into the ice cube tray. Depending on which side it lands in, they get to then give or take the appropriate number of drinks, eg - if you were to bounce the quarter into the second-from-the-bottom, left hand side cube, you would GIVE two drinks to the person of your choice.
-- If the person misses 3 times, it's a social and everyone drinks.
-- If the quarter ends up in the cup at the top of the ice cube tray, everyone must put their hands on their heads, like antlers, and shout MOOSE. Last person to shout moose has to drink the cup.

Quick, easy and social!

(Thanks Lucie!)

Power Hour App

In the course of our refound love for power hours, we found a Power Hour app!

This App will actually take any playlist in your iTunes and take 60 second snippets of each song. As far as we can tell, it's legitimate and works pretty well. It's only for Macs, so you PC users are on your own.

Download it here.

What's your favorite beer to power hour with? We're partial to Miller Lite.

Awkward Parties

Any time you are at an awkward party or bar --

• Drink until it feels like there are people there.
• Chug, chug, pass.

Wellesley College Parties

Drink any time

• Girls form a clearly formed geometric shape (circle, square, pentagram etc)
• Girls scream

Game Breaker -

• When everyone realizes you're all gay.