14. Power Hour
13. Quarters
Description: You try to bounce quarters into empty cups.
Difficulty: You try to bounce quarters into empty cups.
Verdict: You try to bounce quarters into empty cups. Like, that's the game.
12. Keg Stands
11. Watching Someone Else Do a Keg Stand While Comfortably Drinking at Your Own Pace
10. Beer Die/Snappa
9. Sink The Biz
Description: There's a glass cup floating in a bucket filled with beer. Each person tries to add as much beer to the glass cup as he or she can in order to screw over the next person, and when someone finally sinks it, they have to down the full cup.
Difficulty: The most difficult part is finding a proper bucket if you're not at Nick's English Hut, where the game was invented.
Verdict: It requires absolutely no skill or thought, but it's pretty fun.
8. Beer Pong
7. Drinking Cornhole
Description: This is more of a "drink while playing" game than a drinking game, but that kind of makes it even better. Each team attempts to toss bean bags into the opposing team's "cornhole." Players must drink for each point scored against them.
Difficulty: Requires hand eye coordination.
Verdict: This won't get you aggressively drunk (unless you play with modified rules), but is a perfectly apt daytime beer sport.
6. KanJam
Description: Though fairly similar, KanJam edges out Cornhole slightly because teammates can help one another by deflecting throws into the opposing team's goal, making it a bit more active. The drinking version requires that you have a drink in one hand at all times, which makes tossing/deflecting much more difficult but also hilarious. Here's a full description of the non-drinking version, which I guess could be fun too.
Difficulty: Easy to learn, difficult to play well.
Verdict: Extremely fun if you're good at it.
5. Shotgunning
Description: Essentially chugging a can of beer from a hole you cut with a key instead of the hole that it came with.
Difficulty: For some, insanely easy. For others, it's like teaching a turtle to pole vault.
Verdict: There's something wonderfully primal about racing to chug beer from a jagged hole that you cut yourself.
4. Sloshball
Description: It's essentially kickball with beer.
Difficulty: Just pay attention when the rules are explained.
Verdict: Guaranteed to end in at least one minor injury, guaranteed to be completely worth it. Sloshball is perfect for an active tailgate that's taking place in like an open field. But if you're in a gravel parking lot surrounded by other cars, skip it.
3. Dizzy Bat
Description: Chug a full beer from the holding end of a wiffle ball bat as onlookers count out loud. Then, spin with your forehead on the bat for as long as it took you to chug the beer. Finally, try to hit the empty can being pitched at you with the bat.
Difficulty: That's about all there is to it, but it takes a few tries to figure out.
Verdict: A raucously fun, albeit nauseating time.
2. Flip Cup
1. Slap Cup
Description: It basically involves chugging beer, bouncing ping pong balls into empty solo cups, and slapping slower player's cups from out in front of them. Those are the basics, but read a full description here.
Difficulty: Sounds more complicated than it actually is.
Verdict: Does anyone NOT enjoy this game??? It's like the ideal beer game for any competitive person. It's fast-paced, you're constantly drinking, and you get to slap people's cups off the table and scream throughout. EVERYTHING YOU COULD ASK FOR FROM BEER. THANK YOU SLAP CUP FOR ALL YOU HAVE GIVEN US.
Happy Tailgating!
