Drinking Games

How to pick a drinking game

Pick based on what you have and how drunk everybody already is. Games with equipment, like beer pong, flip cup or rage cage, need people steady enough to aim. Question games like Truth or Drink keep working long after that point, because sitting in a circle and talking is the only skill required.

Group size matters as much as timing. Beer pong is two teams and a table, so most of the room ends up watching. King's Cup and Truth or Drink include everyone at once, which is usually what you want if there are more than eight of you.

One practical note: the best drinking games have a built-in stopping point. A deck runs out, a tower falls, a round ends. Games with no natural end tend to run longer than anybody planned.

Drinking games that need no equipment

Truth or Drink, Never Have I Ever, Would You Rather and Most Likely To all run on conversation alone. No cards, no cups, no table. That makes them the fallback when you are somewhere without a kitchen table, or when the deck has gone missing halfway through the night.

The trade-off is that you have to supply the questions. That is easy for the first ten minutes and hard after that, which is why question lists exist. The packs above are sorted by theme and by how far they go.

Playing without drinking

Every game on this page works with a soft drink, and most of our question packs were written to be funny before they were written to be a reason to drink. Keep water on the table, let people pass on a prompt without explaining why, and do not use a game to push somebody past where they wanted to stop.