Games

We all know that Christmas is about spending time with your family and loved ones, maybe enjoying the quiet winter nights. However, before all that, you have to celebrate that you survived this semester! And what’s better than celebrating with some fun (absolutely not harmful) drinking games!

Warning: Please drink water while playing this game. Do not do all of the games after each other. The presence of one mom friend is required, but two is warmly recommended. Don’t die please.

First, The Common Room brought you 3 movies you can play bingo with.

Love Actually – 2003

• When you hear: “Christmas is all around us” take one shot
• When you hear the word “American” take one shot
• When you see or hear the word lobster take one shot
• When you see people hug take half a shot (don’t die please)
  • On mass hugging scenes only the first hug counts!
• When mister bean appears -take shot
• When Natalie curses take a shot

Holiday – 2006

• When you see Amanda imagine a trailer of her life takes a shot
• When you see someone with high heels take a shot
• When you see Iris cry take a shot
• When you see Amanda trying to cry take a shot
• When Amanda and Graham start flirting take a shot

Home Alone – 1990

• When someone screams Kevin in the movie, the last person screaming Kevin from players gets a shot
• If you see Kevin screaming take one shot
• When you see something we don’t use anymore, like an old phone, tv, etc., take a shot
• Take a shot when the criminals get hurt (falling down to ground/ tripping doesn’t count)
• When you see adults not caring that Kevin is alone take a shot
• When you see Kevin’s mom being angry/upset take a shot

However, if you want some more games here are a few that our editors recommended:

King’s cup

Essentials: French cards, water glass

King’s cup is a drinking game you have to play with a set of french cards, in which all the numbers have a different meaning. First you pick a glass (normal water glass, but bigger than a simple shot glass!) and put it in the middle of the table/where everyone can see it.), this is the King’s cup. Then you spread the cards face-down around the King’s cup.

Now go around in rounds and everyone picks a card, the number on the card determines the action the player has to take.

• Ace – Everyone drinks
• Two – Player can pick someone to drink
• Three – Player has to drink
• Four – Everyone has to point at the floor, the last player to do so has to drink
• Five – All people wearing white drink
• Six – All people wearing black drink
• Seven – All players has to raise their left hand up, last player lifting their hands has to drink
• Eight – the player has to choose a partner to drink with them a shot, however, until a new eight is picked up when the player who drew eight has to drink, the picked partner drinks with them!
• Nine – player has to come up with one word, then the player on their right has to find a word rhyming to that, this continues until someone is unable to find a rhyming word. That person has to drink./ Or go a round and if no one makes a mistake the player who drew the card has to drink.
• Ten – Players have to pick a category (movies, books, sport etc.) and all players starting from the right have to respond with a word that matches said category. The person who messes up drinks. / Or go a round and if no one makes a mistake the player who drew the card has to drink.
• Jack – Player has the right to make up a rule and when someone breaks that rule they have to drink. (Rule can be a word that they cannot say, or anything else)
• Queen – Player picks a random person and asks a question, then that player has to answer with a question then pick another player and so on. The first person who cannot ask a question has to drink.
• King – player has to pour some of their drinks into the King’s Cup. The last (4th) person drawing a king has to drink the whole King’s Cup.

You can also give different meanings to the cards, and play accordingly. Have fun!

Although I changed the game a bit, because it was too hetero normative.

Never have I ever

Essentials: drinks, friends

An all time classic! Just get a set of cards with questions, or google ‘Never have I ever’ questions and read them out loud to your group. The person who did the things written on a card has to take one shot. (You can also make up your own questions and go round, so everyone gets to ask the others.)

Wikinger Beer

Essentials: Beers  (Traditionally Wikinger beers) wooden piece, empty bottle, a ping-pong ball

This game is from one of my brilliant German colleagues. You start by setting up a square table and dividing your group by half. Both groups have to put out their drinks on either side of the table facing each other. Then set up a piece of wood or anything relatively light and long in the middle of the table and put an empty bottle on top. To start, group A has to try to make the bottle fall by throwing the ball on the wooden piece. When the bottle falls, group B has to quickly finish their beers before group A can set the bottle back to its place. And visa versa. The first group to finish all theri beers wins.