Card drinking games

Card drinking games: 23 games

• Beer 99

  Play cards, keep count, never go over 99: Beer 99 is the drinking game for people who like numbers.

  Players:3–6 Rules: Tricky

• Horse Race

  Four aces race each other and you bet in sips: Horse Race is the card drinking game with a real finish line.

  Players:3–12 Rules: Easy
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  Kings Cup

  Every card has a task, the fourth King drains the King’s Cup: the complete Kings Cup rules.

  Players:4–12 Rules: Medium

• President (Scum)

  Get rid of your cards first and you’re President – be left holding them and you’re Scum, and you drink.

  Players:4–8 Rules: Medium
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  Ride the Bus

  Four questions, a pyramid and one unlucky bus driver: the Ride the Bus rules step by step.

  Players:3–8 Rules: Medium

• Blow the Card

  Deck on top of a bottle, take turns blowing: whoever blows off all or none of the cards drinks.

  Players:3–10 Rules: Easy

• Cheat (Bullshit)

  Play cards face down, call them out, lie – until someone shouts “Cheat!”.

  Players:3–8 Rules: Medium

• Down Under

  The simplest card drinking game ever: everyone draws a card, lowest card drinks.

  Players:3–12 Rules: Easy

• Ezelen

  Pass cards in rhythm until someone has four of a kind – then everyone copies the signal fast. The slowest player collects the letters E-Z-E-L.

  Players:3–8 Rules: Easy

• Four Aces

  Four aces, four roles: choose the glass, choose the drink, pour – and the last one drinks.

  Players:5+ Rules: Easy

• Friend or Foe

  Play a card, name a player – they drink for as many seconds as the card shows. Unless someone saves them.

  Players:3–8 Rules: Medium

• Fuck the Dealer

  The dealer knows the card, you get two guesses. Get it right and the dealer drinks. Miss twice and you drink.

  Players:3–8 Rules: Easy

• Higher

  Every card has to beat the one before – or you drink.

  Players:2–10 Rules: Easy

• Irish Snap

  Flip cards, count along, slap the table on a match – slowest hand drinks.

  Players:3–10 Rules: Medium

• Ladder

  Beat the card before you or drink: Ladder is explained in seconds.

  Players:2–6 Rules: Easy

• Le Barbu

  Draw, flip, do it: in the French game Le Barbu every card has its own task – from packing a suitcase and spelling words to the thumb on your chin.

  Players:4–10 Rules: Medium

• Liar’s Card

  The dealer announces a card – real or made up. Whoever guesses furthest off drinks.

  Players:4–6 Rules: Medium

• Mafia Boss

  One cop, one mafia boss and secret signals: the bluffing drinking game for 4 to 8 people.

  Players:4–8 Rules: Medium

• Snap

  Everyone flips at once – whoever matches a suit or number drinks with their match.

  Players:3–6 Rules: Easy

• The Bridge

  Ten cards in a row, take turns flipping – face cards and aces cost sips.

  Players:2–8 Rules: Medium

• Toepen

  The Dutch pub card game: four cards, only the last trick counts, and knocking raises the stakes. As a drinking game, penalty points become sips.

  Players:2–8 Rules: Tricky

• UNO Drinking Game

  The classic card game with drinking rules: draw cards and you drink too – and forget to call “UNO” and you really pay for it.

  Special Players:2–10 Rules: Easy

• Up and Down the River

  Four face-up cards each, the dealer draws – whoever has the value drinks. Doubling every round.

  Players:3–8 Rules: Medium