Drinking game
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Template:Drinking games Drinking games are games which involve the drinking of beer or other alcoholic beverages. These games commonly take place at house parties, public bars or pubs. The games often follow a version of the International Drinking Rules, and the objectives are to either simply drink competitively for speed or to win via others becoming too drunk. Participants are primarily college students, young adults, and high school students.
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History
According to Dr. Rupert Thompson of the University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party. The game was simple: fill a bowl with wine, drink it, and pass it on to the next person.
Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games. Players would use dregs to hit targets across the room. Often, there were special prizes and penalties for one's performance in the game,[1] which later evolved into today's Arrogance.
Types of games
Endurance games
The simplest drinking games are endurance games in which players compete to out-drink each other. Players take turns taking shots, and the last person standing is the winner. Some games have rules involving the "cascade", "fountain" or "waterfall", which encourages each player to drink constantly from their cup so long as the player before him does not stop drinking. Such games can also favor speed over quantity, in which case players race to drink a beer the fastest.
A cinematic example of an endurance game occurs in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when a character called Marion Ravenwood (played by Karen Allen) sits down across a table from a burly Sherpa. Both of them take turns drinking a shot from a glass of unidentified spirits, until the Sherpa falls down, hopelessly drunk. Events go downward from there.
"Loser Buys" games
These are games played where whoever loses must buy the next round of drinks for all other players, such as Spoof.
Speed games
Many pub or bar games involve competitive drinking for speed and not necessarily quantity consumed. The object of these games may not be inebriation, but may involve simply "bragging rights" or wagers of cash which benefit the fastest drinker. Examples of drinking games involving speed are Boat and Case races, Edward Fortyhands, Funneling, Shotgunning and Yard.
World record
The Guinness Book of Records began to list world records for speed drinking in this category in the early 1960s. These early drinking records involved drinking beer from challenging vessels such as the yard of ale glass, which, if not correctly mastered, resulted in the user receiving a blast of beer in his or her face. The current record is held by Steven Petrosino, who drank 1 liter of beer in 1.30 seconds in June 1977.[2] The record was later dropped from the Guinness book in 1991 due to concerns about litigation.[3]
Thinking games
Such games are not difficult at the onset, but become much more challenging as the game continues as players become inebriated and their coordination and memory deteriorate. Observation games are based on popular movies, television shows, or books, where the players drink when some event occurs, such as a character speaking a catch phrase. In Memory games, each player must repeat a series of events, add to it, and when a player forgets, he must take a drink. Thinking games include 21, Beer checkers, Bizz buzz, Buffalo, Bullshit, Caps, Captain Paf, Matchboxes, One fat hen, Roman numerals and Zoom schwartz profigliano.
Coordination games
Drinking games involving players performing certain skills become more difficult as the level of intoxication increases, such as Beer pong, Flip cup, Beer bat and Jackball, but also include those that use quarters or other coins, such as Bouncing coins, Chandeliers, Land mine, Moose, Pennying and Quarters.
Card games
Several popular drinking games involving cards are Asshole, Cards, Connections, Fuck the dealer, Hi-Lo, Horserace, Kings, Liar's poker, Pyramid, Ride the bus, Up and down the river and Whirlwind.
Dice games
Dice games include 7-11-doubles, beer die, dudo, kinito, kranen, liar's dice, Mexico, Mia, pounce!, ship, captain, and crew, tablero da Gucci and Three Man.
Miscellaneous games
There are many other drinking games that cannot be categorized any certain way, such as Goon of fortune, Never have I ever, Pub Golf and The Vegetable Game.
Criticisms
Researchers have noted that the prevalence of heavy drinking has increased among adolescents and young adults, particularly at colleges.[4] For many college students, heavy alcohol use occurs during drinking games.[5] A review of the drinking games literature indicated that between 47% and 62% of college students participate in these games.[5] Also important is the relevance of alcohol consumption while playing drinking games and its link to alcohol-related problems.[5] It is often assumed that all drinking games pose similar health risks such as heavy alcohol use.[6] Results of current research[6] indicate that ariations emerged regarding popularity, type of alcoholic beverage consumed, and participants’ intoxication level among different drinking games. Beer pong, Kings, I Never and Flip Cup were popular drinking games. Most participants who played Beer Pong and Flip Cup consumed soft liquor and many respondents who played Kings/Queens and I Never used both hard/soft liquor.[6] Participants who played Funneling, Chugging and Power Hour reported higher perceived intoxication levels compared to those who played Jenga.[6] Hazardous alcohol use was associated with the use of both soft/hard liquor during drinking games, increased drinking games participation, greater alcohol consumption while playing, and higher intoxication levels. Consumption of soft/hard liquor was related to higher alcohol consumption and intoxication levels; increased drinking games participation and elevated alcohol consumption during drinking games were associated with higher intoxication levels.[6]
References
- ↑ http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/kottabos.html
- ↑ http://www.calwineries.com/blog/2007/03/12/dear-guinness-book-of-world-records-where-s-the-alcohol-entries
- ↑ http://www.beerrecord.com
- ↑ Ham, L. S., & Hope, D. A. (2003). College students and problematic drinking: A review of the literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 719–759.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Borsari, B. (2004). Drinking games in the college environment: A review. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 48, 29–51.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Zamboanga, B.L., Leitkowski, L.K., Rodrigues, L., and Cascio, K.A. (2006). Drinking games in female college students: More than just a game? Addictive Behaviors, 31, 1485–1489.
