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The best things in life are simple and this can be applied to many different areas of life. Wrapping yourself in a warm blanket on a cold day when it is snowing, reading a good book, free food, are some of those simple things that cost nothing but give us a great experience.

For this game, we kept that fact in mind and wanted to show that when it comes to party games, you don’t need to spent lots of money on board games or other materials which will eventually collect dust in the closet. You want a simple game that is fun? “yes, no, maybe” is a great drinking game without cards or any other materials.

Yes No Maybe Game Setup

Before you begin have all players sit in a circle and place whatever you’re drinking in the middle of the circle. You might also want to decide how many drinks a person takes for messing up. Then a player is chosen who will begin answering the questions asked by others. You can either start with the youngest / oldest player, roll some dice, or some other way.

Yes No Maybe Game Rules

Once you have a player that will start, this person will be asked questions by others in the circle. Before the question-and-answer session starts, the stopwatch is set to one minute. As long as the stopwatch is running, the player must now answer the questions of the other players. You can ask any questions you want of the player and all questions must be answered. However, it is forbidden to use the three words “yes”, “no” and “maybe” in the answers. If any answer contains one of these three words, then the player must drink the amount of alcohol agreed upon before the game began. It is also forbidden to answer every answer the same. So saying “I did it” twice in a row is forbidden and the player must drink if they repeat an answer like this. Once the minute is over, it is the next player’s turn going clockwise and now they must face the questions of everyone in the circle.

Although the game seems very simple it will not be the case when the drinks are flowing and your concentration isn’t at its best, so not saying the forbidden words becomes very hard since “yes”, “no” and “maybe” are used very often in everyday language. The more you drink during the game the harder it becomes to not mess up and drink more so as the game goes on it becomes more fun to play.

This drinking game is all about good concentration. While counting the numbers sounds pretty easy and straightforward, there are additional rules that come into play like clapping for certain numbers that make the game challenging as it goes on since you are also conversing. 

The game sounds complicated at first but is actually quite funny. Incidentally, the game originally comes from the Asian region, or from Korea, which explains the name.

Sam Yuk Gu (3, 6, 9) Game Rules

There are actually only 2 rules in the game:

The players sit in a circle and one person begins by saying the number 1. Then the game goes clockwise and the next player says the next number so 2 in this case, the third player has to clap once to instead of saying the number 3. If its your turn and the number includes 3, 6 or 9, the number will replaced by a clap instead and the next person goes. This applies for several numbers together including the clap numbers so you can clap up to three times. An explanation:

Memorization becomes more important for certain numbers like when it gets to the 30s every person has to clap at least once (ex. 31) or twice (ex. 33, 36, 39), but there are no numbers said out loud until it gets to 40 since every number from 30 to 39 at least has one clap number (3).

If someone makes a mistake, speaks a forbidden number, forgets to clap, gossips too little or too often or takes too long to do their turn then they must drink.

I’m Going to the Bar Drinking Game Rules

Fill all the shot glasses and give one to every person. The game begins with one person saying something like “I’m going to the bar and I need a Heineken”. Now the next player has to say the same thing, but has to add on another drink such as “I’m going to the bar and I need a Heineken and Brandy”. This continues until someone cannot think of something or gets the list of alcoholic beverages already mentioned wrong, they then have to take their shot.

How to Play Medusa Drinking Game & Rules

Pour a lot of shot glasses and place them in the middle of the table. Now everyone puts their head down and on the count of three, everybody raises their head and stares at another person on the table. If you stare at somebody who isn’t looking at you then your safe, however if you are staring at somebody else’s eyes then you must yell “Medusa” and take a shot - the same applies to the other person. Continue this until all the shots in the middle are gone.

Taboo Drinking Game Rules & How to Play

Before guests arrive, write down a couple of common actions, words, and phrases on index cards – enough for everyone coming. These should be things that are bound to be done or said a few times throughout the night, not every other word like “the”. Every time a person hears words, phrases, or sees somebody do an action that was assigned to them they yell “Taboo” and that person drinks.

Get creative with the ideas, some fun examples include:

This game can be played throughout the night and can be included in with other games being played.

Top Card Drinking Game Rules & How to Play

Start the game by dealing everyone eight cards, you can use as many decks as you need to. The rest of the cards go in the middle of the table. Someone starts by flipping one card from the top of the deck that is at the center of the table. The first player begins by laying down cards that add up or match that numerical value, for example, let’s say you flip a seven so the first player would have to either put down a seven, five and two, or four and three… You get the idea – they can use as many cards as they need to match it. They then place those cards on top of the deck in any way they want, so they can determine which card comes up next. If they cannot match the card then they must drink and pick up two cards from the deck.

The next player has to match the new top card, if they can do this using fewer cards compared to the person before them then they can choose a person to drink and the same person or another person to pick up two cards from the deck.

The goal of this game is to get rid of all your cards before everyone else. The winner gets to give out three drinks – they can give them all to one person or split them up.

Card Values:

Go Fish Drinking Game Rules & How to Play

Everyone gets 5 cards. The rest of the cards are spread out in the middle of the table. You are able to play with multiple decks if you must. First player goes fishing (picks a card out of the deck) and flips it up.

Everyone must immediately lay down a card higher or identical . If they are unable to do so, they may pick up one card from the fish pond. They must play the card they picked up, if not they need to drink. The last man that either lays down their card or drinks must drink two times. All the cards played are then mixed back into the fish pond. The highest card laid down begins the next round.

If a player lays down a KING then before the next round begins, everyone must pass their whole hand to their right.

First player to drop all their cards wins! They may give out 4 drinks to whoever they want.

View our many other fun drinking card games

Asshole Drinking Game Rules & How to Play

The game begins with deciding who the President, Vice President, Normal People, and Asshole are for the next round.

Begin by dealing 6 or 7 cards to each player, you can deal more or less depending on how many people are playing. The cards are ranked according to the following (most powerful to least powerful):

2, A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3

One person goes first by playing any card, then the next person has two options:

  1. To play any card higher, but not the same
  2. Or pass on their turn

Example: If the first player drops a 4 then the next player must drop a card that is higher than a 4, then the next player has to play a card higher than that card. Once all players pass, or when someone drops a 2 (the most powerful card) then a new hand begins. The person who dropped the last card begins the new hand.

This keeps going on until everyone has gotten rid of their cards. The person who drops all their cards first is the President for the next round, the next one to drop all their cards is the Vice President, whoever drops their cards after the Vice President are normal, and the one who drops their cards last is the Asshole.

Whoever is leading, or going first, can drop any two identical cards such as two 5’s, the next person must play two identical cards that are HIGHER than five but cannot drop one or three cards, only two identical cards higher than 5’s. The same applies if the leading person drops three or four identical cards, if nobody can match these then the leading person continues to drop cards until someone can beat them or a two is dropped, which beats everything else, and the hand ends followed with a new lead.

Asshole Drinking Game Roles

President: Can give out drinks to anyone at any time. Nobody can make the president drink but the President. President gets to start each round and should never have to refill their own drink.

Vice President: Similar to President, can give out drinks to anyone at any time (except for the President). Only the president or the vice president can make the Vice President drink. The vice president is second each round (after the president).

Normal People: Normal people can make each other drink and the Asshole. They play in turn according to the order they finished in the previous round. First normal out after the Vice President is third to act, second normal out is fourth to act, etc.

Asshole: This player is truly the Asshole. They must deal the cards, sweep the cards after a hand, and can’t make anyone drink. Asshole plays last in each round.

A few recommendations, at the end of each round, the players should move seats in order to reflect the hierachy, and proper playing order. Play your lowest cards first. Abuse the power when Pres or VP, but remember it will always come back to haunt you, especially when abusing the Asshole.

Some Tips: At the end of each round all players should move seats to reflect the order in which they will act (president, vice president, first normal, second normal, etc). You should try to play your lowest cards first, and abuse your powers if you are President or Vice President, but remember not to make too many enemies as it will come back to bite you in the ass.

You may play as many rounds as you like!

Beer Chess Game Rules

Beer chess is played with beer, a lot of beer. One side uses Light Beer (white), the other side uses regular (black) of the same brands. (see
list below) Our research and development team has concluded that one can expect a standard Beer Chess game to last up to five hours, assuming neither player passes out. Intermissions, however, may be declared on a bilateral basis.

Beer Chess Board Setup

As you may have realized, this game requires a big board. While beer chess boards are now commonplace in Jackman, in other places their availability is still limited. Again, our R+D team has arrived at a clever solution: bathroom tiles-large white bathroom tiles.

Placed on a darker table at regular intervals, one can quickly construct a professional-looking Beer Chess set. For an even cheaper board, cardboard coasters, available at most bars, serve as impromptu, portable boards.

Beer Chess Pieces

White:
8 pawns: Bud Lights (8oz can)
2 Rooks: Miller Light (12oz can)
2 Knights: Busch Light (12 oz Can)
2 Bishops: Coors Light (12 oz Can)
Queen: Michelob Light (Bottle)
King: Bud Light (Bottle)

Black:
8 pawns: Budweiser (8oz cans)
2 Rooks: Miller Genuine Draft (12 oz Can)
2 Knights: Busch (12 oz Cans)
2 Bishops: Coors (12 oz Cans)
Queen: Michelob (Bottle)
King: Budweiser (Bottle)

Beer Chess Standard Rules

  1. When one moves a piece, one must sip from the piece moved
  2. When one’s piece is captured, one must drink the entire piece
  3. Castling requires two sips: one from the King, one from the Rook
  4. Standard pawn move requires only one sip
  5. When one’s pawn reaches the eighth rank and is exchanged for a queen (or another piece), one’s opponent must drink the remainder of the pawn
  6. Once a piece is sipped, that piece must be moved (taking back moves is not allowed)
  7. One may take as long as one wants to drink a captured piece, but the piece must be quickly consumed when a second piece is captured
  8. After each exchange of pieces, the players must toast each other’s health with the exchanged pieces
  9. When one is put in check, one must sip from the King
  10. Passing out constitutes a resignation
  11. A player may not go to the bathroom before his move
  12. When one is checkmated, one must drink:
    1. The remainder of one’s King
    2. The remainder of opponent’s King
    3. The remainder of one’s pieces

Beer Chess Hints:

How to Play Beer Pot & Game Rules

All players sit in a circle. Each player contributes one beer to the pot. One player starts drinking from the pot. This person can drink as much or little as s/he chooses. When done, the pot passes to the next player who does the same thing. The person who empties the pot is the winner. The person who drinks immediately before the winner is the loser.

The loser must then put a beer in the pot for each of the players; then play starts again. Or a variation is that the loser puts in two beers, the winner zero, and everybody else puts in one.

This is also a great game to be played in bars. Buy a big pitcher of beer. Pass it around. The loser buys the next pitcher.

It is important that the pot/pitcher is big – it makes it harder to judge the amount of beer remaining.