Pub crawls are an ancient tradition, dating back to that time I forgot. A great pub crawl drinking game is a three legged race. You simply pair up, tie your legs together and order 2 pints (one each). You drink your pints and move on to the next pub. Whoever drinks their last pint at the last pub is the winner and can be bought a free round by the other players. Before starting the race it’s a good idea to have the next pubs all planned out, about 5 is a good number. Make sure they aren’t too far away and don’t leave anyone on their own, if your numbers are odd you could always grab a random pub goer and tie them to your leg!

Another fun pub game you might have heard of before is Thumbs. In this game the thumbmaster subtly places his thumb on the table (or bar). As soon as he’s done this everyone else has to do it too, the last person ‘loses’ and has to drink 2 fingers and becomes the new thumbmaster.

EG or (empty glass) is a game that can be played on its own or combined with thumbs. Whenever someone finishes their drink they can’t put it down without touching the glass on someone else. If they forget to do this (and other people notice) everyone shouts EG! The offender then must go and buy another drink that’s the same as the one they just finished it and down it as fast as possible. They have to touch this one on someone else before putting it down too, which often they forget, resulting in them having to buy another drink! You can ‘trick’ people into ‘losing’ (its not really losing, its all fun!) by handing them your empty glass and saying things like ‘can you hold this for a seck while I go to the loo’. Of course that probably won’t work unless they’ve had a few drinks themselves already, so time it carefully!

Don’t play these games too often, drink safely and enjoy!

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