Drinking game

[1] Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games from ancient Greece, dated to the 5th to 4th centuries BC.

[2] Drinking games were enjoyed in ancient China, usually incorporating the use of dice or verbal exchange of riddles.

[3]: 146  There was another game where little puppets and dolls dressed as western foreigners with blue eyes (Iranian peoples) were set up and when one fell over, the person it pointed to had to empty his cup of wine.

[4] Drinking games became popular among elites in the late Qing period as part of the privileged class' urban leisure aesthetics.

[5]: 117  Novelists who invented literary-themed drinking games included Li Boyuan and Sun Yusheng.

[5]: 117  Drinking games also increasingly appeared as elements in novels of the period such as Yu Da's The Dream in the Green Bower.

The loser had to chalk up a figure such as a swallow, a wheel or a pair of scissors depending on the number of minus points gained and was only allowed to erase them once he had drunk the associated amount of beer.

Such games can also favor speed over quantity, in which players race to drink a case of beer the fastest.

Some party and pub games focus on the performance of a particular act of skill, rather than on either the amount a participant drinks or the speed with which they do so.

Numerous types of thinking games exist, including Think or Drink, 21, beer checkers, bizz buzz, buffalo, saved by the bell, bullshit, tourettes, matchboxes, never have I ever, roman numerals, fuzzy duck, pennying, wine games, and Zoom Schwartz Profigliano.

Drinking games involving cards include president, horserace, Kings, liar's poker, pyramid,[14] ring of fire, toepen, ride the bus and black or red.

In reference to film, a popular game among young adults consists of printing out a mustache and taping it on the television screen.

A suggestion to "do six shots for SEAL Team 6" following every mention of Osama bin Laden at the 2012 Democratic National Convention necessitated a prominent disclaimer on the satire site that posted it, as the quantity of alcohol ingested would probably have been lethal.

Examples of this include participants each picking a footballer in a game while other versions require multiple players to be selected.

Among some groups, low quality vodka is preferred, as it makes the glass representing the filled chamber less desirable.

Drinking games are popular social activities, particularly among young adults and college students, but they come with significant health risks.