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!

Another fun wine game is ice cube raft race. In this game each player is given a tray of ice cubes of frozen wine. Players put 1 wine cube in their mouth and suck it, the player who finishes all their wine cubes first wins.

Badass badminton is lots of fun, next time you are playing badminton, bring a couple of bottles of wine along! Each time your opponent hits a shuttle cock into the net kindly pour them a drink. Whenever you score a point, celebrate with a swig of wine. If you win the game (21 points) celebrate with a drink. If the points end up as 20 all or 29 all both teams have a drink! If you win the game or lose the game you drink!

You can play these drinking games with your friends and get absolutely toasted. Having at least some knowledge of this game is required to make our the next friday night drinking film even remotely amusing.

Above is what we call a feature length presentation on how to play ring of fire. You set it up by getting a pint in the middle and with a set of cards spread around it and everyone has a drink. We start off with the Ace, which means you can leave the table if you want. Kings get laid on top of the pint glass, the person who places the last king has to drink the pint glass. Alternativly you have an empty glass in the middle and the person who picks a king pours some of their drink into the glass, then the last person has to chugg the it which by now will be filled with a mixture of whatever everyone is drinking.

10 is the thumbmaster card. Lay it face up so everyone can see (not always required) and put your thumb on the table. The last person to put their thumb on the table has to drink 2 fingers of their drink. 3 is the question card, e.g. I ask you a question, you have to answer me with a question. If you dont answer with a question you drink, if you do it right they have to drink.

A red 5 means you have to drink 5 fingers of your own drink, if it is a black 5 you nominate someone else to drink 5 fingers. 4 you nominate someone to drink 4 fingers. Jack is the I am Sparticus. You all stand up and shout “I am Spartacus”, the last person to do it drinks. 7, it goes round the table saying numbers. You cant say any multiples of 7 or something with a 7 in it.

Have fun with these drinking games!