Game night has always been a great excuse to get friends together for a night of drinking under the guise of communal entertainment. Pandemic or not, there’s no reason that such traditions have to come to an end. In fact, as many of us are starting to explore the wealth of free online gaming platforms, virtual hangouts, and other creative web-based solutions, we’re gathering socially and playing more games than ever before.
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There’s a huge spectrum of games available, from classic board games and card games, to online versions of tried-and-true drinking games we all (vaguely) remember from our college days. One of the best places to start will be platforms set up for just such a purpose. Houseparty, for instance, has a handful of free games built into its video chatting app.
Jackbox Games has a huge collection of games, though these are for purchase, with “party packs” costing from about $10 to $20. There’s a wide range of other platforms, such as Board Game Arena, which touts 175 games, and Tabletopia, with over 900 board games, including a limited free membership and more expansive premium options. Tabletop Simulator is a paid system with rich graphics and animation, taking board games to the online screen. DrinkVirtually.com, meanwhile, is focused on your old-school drinking games, with over half a dozen options ready to go for your next virtual hangout.
Here’s a sampling of some of our favorite online games you can play with your friends.
Top Games to Play Online While Drinking
Battleship
Few things are more of a bummer than having to admit to your foe, “you sunk my battleship!” It’s a terrible psychological wound from a favorite childhood game, and it can be easily adapted to a drinking game by sipping whenever your opponent has a hit, and chugging or finishing a drink when a ship is sunk. There are simple, stripped-down versions of online Battleship available for free, as well as options available from aforementioned platforms such as Board Game Arena.
Chips and Guac
One staple of the free Houseparty game collection is Chips and Guac. It’s a word association game with one player serving as the judge in each round. The card dealt is the “chip” and answers from the other players are the “guac,” so the judge has to pick the best pairing, get it? To add some tequila to that chips and guac, the judge can also dole out drinks to her least favorite answers.
CodeNames
Sean Hudgins, a spirits publicist at Evins Communications, has been playing CodeNames, which features a word-based game board in which teams are given clues to guess the specific words that would earn them points. Full rules are available here. “As far as the drinking rules, we play so that the other team has to take a sip for every word you get right,” he says. “You take a shot for every one of the other team’s words you guess unintentionally, and if your team guesses the ‘bomb’ you have to finish your drink.”
Coronavirus Bingo
This 2020 Pandemic version of Bingo features fun, relatable squares, such as “anxiety,” “recorded a podcast,” and “drinking alone.” Play on your virtual hangout with users taking turns as hosts. Drink every time you get a square, or you don’t, or when you get Bingo, or when you don’t. It’s a pandemic, the rules have ceased applying, right? Everyone loves Coronavirus Bingo, just please, please, please, don’t host an in-person game at your local senior center.
Coronavirus Briefing Drinking Game
At TVDrinking.com, you can take part in the Coronavirus Briefing Drinking Game. The drinking prompts and rules are all provided on the screen, so all you need to do is watch live to get in on the fun. The site also keeps some of its “favorite” past briefings up as video clips, so you can go back and watch at anytime
Drunk Pirate
Drunk Pirate is a free online drinking game based around fast and easy prompts. A sample flip of the cards shows prompts such as having anyone with a beard taking a drink, anyone owning an Apple product, or anyone who’s kissed one of the other current players.
Gloomhaven
Craig Bridger, who works with The Dalmore as its director of malt specialists, West, and head of education, recommends Gloomhaven. “My friends and I, who normally meet regularly in person to play, love a game called Gloomhaven,” he says. “We found it on Tabletop Simulator and have been playing it there.” He’s more of a whisky sipper while playing as opposed to a drinking game participant, though that works for a game that’s more marathon than sprint. “It’s a bit tedious but still fun,” Bridger says. “Also, fair warning: The nerd level is high with that game.”
Heads Up!
Heads Up! is the classic game in which you’re holding a card to your forehead, and another player has to help you guess what it says. There’s a free version with four different decks included with Houseparty, and additional premium options available. If there are numerous people or teams playing together, consider the spectators assigning drinks to either the clue giver, or the guesser, of a losing round.
Hollywood Squares
Freelance journalist G. Clay Whittaker recently tried his hand at hosting Hollywood Squares on Zoom. “Zoom grids look a lot like the classic Hollywood Squares board,” he says. “As long as you’ve got enough friends for a full game, all you need to do is add trivia questions and you’ve got a couple hours of fun.” This is a game that requires a fair number of people, ideally 12, including the host. Refresh yourself on the rules of Hollywood Squares, and use something such as Quizlet for the trivia questions.
Kings
Basketball plus minus meaning. Kings is the O.G. of drinking games, and several different platforms have web-based versions, including the aforementioned DrinkVirtually.com. The specific rules for each card have been the stuff of Solo Cup-fueled debates for decades, though you’ll remember some of the classics such as: Categories, Rhymes, Rules, Question Master, and so forth.
Never Have I Ever
Hold'em poker yahoo. Never Have I Ever is one of the easiest drinking games to play online, because you don’t need any cards or equipment or anything else. Just load up your virtual hangout and get started. There are numerous lists of questions online, though everyone knows the real fun is embarrassing your friend with a question you know he’ll have to raise his hand and drink for, allowing you to share that one-time secret with the rest of your friends.
Poker
Paul Hletko, the founder of FEW Spirits, has been turning to online poker to help pass the days. Even better, he’s putting the game to use. “All of the buy-ins are donated to feed restaurant staff,” he says. Cheers to that. To make it an official drinking game, have each hand’s winner assign a drink; it could be to everyone who folded, or to someone she felt was bluffing, for instance. Use your favorite poker service or a simple web-based platform such as DonkHouse.com.
Power Hour
Who needs a silly thing like a “rule,” or a “game,” or a “reason” to drink? Just play Power Hour, where you have to take one sip of your drink every minute for a full hour. It’s one of the game interfaces available on DrinkVirtually.com, with features such as automatic timers, minute-by-the-minute gongs, and randomly assigned bonus drinks.
Quick Draw
Quick Draw is another of the free games available via HouseParty. It’s basically a virtual Pictionary that has you drawing on your phone. Whoever guesses correctly can assign drinks for each round to the other players, or if nobody guesses correctly, the artist can assign drinks instead.
Remote Insensitivity
Remote Insensitivity is a free, web-based version of Cards Against Humanity. Though it’s not affiliated with the actual game, the website PlayingCards.io uses a Creative Commons license for its version. To make it a drinking game, the person choosing each round’s winner can also choose one (or several) of her least favorite answers and have those players drink.
Settlers of Catan
Joseph Mintz, the co-founder of Siponey canned honey cocktails, has been playing Settlers of Catan. “We play on Steam, which is an online gaming service for PC and Macs,” he says. An online version of the game can also be loaded on CatanUniverse.com. “We either have a conference call going or just have a group text on the side,” Mintz says. “For those familiar with the game, he suggests a few specific drinking rules. “Anytime the robber is placed on your hex you have to drink,” he says. “Anytime you build a settlement or a city, you have to drink. And anytime you use a development card you have to drink.”
Taboo
Taboo is another classic group card game, with each card having a word or phrase that must be guessed, and a set of forbidden words that the clue giver can’t use to help. All users can pull up the interface and just take turns as the clue giver. Drinks can be doled out when teams don’t guess correctly, when the clue giver messes up and mentions a taboo word, and when one team has enough points to win the game.
Ticket to Ride
Hletko has also been playing Ticket to Ride, though he warns against its addictive nature and its strong potential to ruin your productivity goals for the day. “I’ve been playing Ticket To Ride online, and drinking every time the stupid commuter stupidly takes the last route available,” he says. “It’s a card strategy game where you try to build railroads connecting various cities, and there are only certain paths you can optimally take. Of course, the computer players always take your last route.”
Trivia
“My trivia group gets together every Wednesday night on Zoom to play on Jackbox games,” says Christina Mercado, beverage manager at The Vanderbilt, Auberge Resorts Collection, in Newport, R.I. “You can share the screen on Zoom and everyone can see it on their computer, then your cell phone becomes the controller. So it feels like you’re all in the same room playing together.” There are plenty of free trivia options available, such as the Random Trivia Generator, and one on Houseparty as well.
Words With Friends
When you want a quick online drinking game without logging onto a virtual hangout, just play Words With Friends with your favorite partner. Lowest scoring word for a block of, say, five turns or five minutes has to drink, or a player hitting on a coveted triple word score or another high bonus can make the other player drink.
The perfect diversion from questions about your personal life.
Nothing says “holiday cheer” quite like sitting around enjoying board games with your extended family members. Nothing says “holiday survival” quite like the need to incorporate alcohol into the mix.
Put away those dominos (it’s okay, grandma won’t mind) and trade them in for some real family fun: drinking games. Here’s our rundown of seven fun-filled and booze drenched holiday drinking games that are the perfect diversion from questions about your personal life.
The Game: Jingle Shots
What You’ll Need: Candy Cane Shots (see below) and musically literate friends/family members
The Rules: Sitting around a table, mix up each player three or four Candy Cane Shots. One player starts by singing the line of their favorite Christmas song, the player to the left must sing the next line and the player to their left the third line, until someone inevitably screws up or doesn’t know the words. The one who flubs the line must take one of their Candy Cane Shots and immediately begin with their favorite Christmas song, all players participate until they are out of shots and then become eliminated until one caroler reigns supreme…and should probably take their shots anyway.
Candy Cane Shots
1 part Rumple Minze
1 part whipping cream
Rose’s Grenadine
1 part whipping cream
Rose’s Grenadine
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Line up your Lil Red’s Plastic Shot Glasses and fill them nearly to the top with Rumple Minze, add a splash of cream and top with Rose’s Grenadine. The shots can be shaken with ice and strained from a mixer if only a few people are playing.
The Game: The Christmas Vacation Drinking Game
What You’ll Need: The best Christmas movie ever, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and a 30 pack of Budweiser
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The Rules:
1. Drink every time Ellen calls Clark “Sparky”
2. Drink whenever someone is wearing an ugly Christmas sweater
3. Drink whenever Audrey Griswold rolls her eyes or acts like a bratty teenager
4. Drink whenever someone mentions Clark’s Christmas bonus or the swimming pool or Clark has a vision of it.
5. Drink any time Clark makes “crazy eyes” or says/does something crude (“Bend over and I’ll show ya…”)
6. Drink whenever Clark is wearing sports-themed clothing.
7. Drink any time someone refers to Rusty as “Rus.” Take two drinks if they have to yell it. (“I’m right here dad”)
8. Dring twice every time an advent calendar door is opened.
9. Drink any time Todd and Margot are irriatated with Clark or he destroys something they own.
10. Drink any time someone or an animal messes with the Christmas tree.
1. Drink every time Ellen calls Clark “Sparky”
2. Drink whenever someone is wearing an ugly Christmas sweater
3. Drink whenever Audrey Griswold rolls her eyes or acts like a bratty teenager
4. Drink whenever someone mentions Clark’s Christmas bonus or the swimming pool or Clark has a vision of it.
5. Drink any time Clark makes “crazy eyes” or says/does something crude (“Bend over and I’ll show ya…”)
6. Drink whenever Clark is wearing sports-themed clothing.
7. Drink any time someone refers to Rusty as “Rus.” Take two drinks if they have to yell it. (“I’m right here dad”)
8. Dring twice every time an advent calendar door is opened.
9. Drink any time Todd and Margot are irriatated with Clark or he destroys something they own.
10. Drink any time someone or an animal messes with the Christmas tree.
Finish your entire beer:
– After Rusty busts Clark at the department store counter with Mary showing off her thong.
– During Aunt Bethany’s Pledge of Alligance
– When Clark finally gets his Christmas Bonus after Cousin Eddie kidnaps Frank Shirley.
– After Rusty busts Clark at the department store counter with Mary showing off her thong.
– During Aunt Bethany’s Pledge of Alligance
– When Clark finally gets his Christmas Bonus after Cousin Eddie kidnaps Frank Shirley.
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The Game: Christmas Facebook Roulette
What You’ll Need: The Facebook App and a handle of Fireball
The Rules: Gather up your willing participants, cousins, parents, siblings, etc. Make sure everyone has the Facebook App on their phone and are all logged in and ready to go. The rules below apply to the top post on your newsfeed. Set a timer for every thirty minutes and when the timer goes off have all players check the top posts on their newsfeed, proceed to shoot Fireball as the following rules dictate:
YOU take a shot of Fireball if your first newfeed post include any of the following:
– A couple you know wearing ~wacky~ Christmas sweaters
– Someone’s baby dressed up as something Christmas themed
– A picture of someone’s Christmas tree
– A status detailing a very public “THANK YOU” for presents received
– Someone condecendingly reminding everyone of the “true meaning of Christmas”
– A lineup photo of someone’s family you’ve never met and don’t care about
– A group shot of people from your hometown that still get together to drink on Christmas Eve
– A picture of the spread of festive food someone is about to enjoy
– A half-assed “Merry Christmas” status that no one has liked
– A selfie from someone’s Christmas getaway vacation
– Someone bragging about volunteer work on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
– Someone has changed their profile picture to a Christmas photo
– Someone posts a Christmas meme and it’s actually funny
– A couple you know wearing ~wacky~ Christmas sweaters
– Someone’s baby dressed up as something Christmas themed
– A picture of someone’s Christmas tree
– A status detailing a very public “THANK YOU” for presents received
– Someone condecendingly reminding everyone of the “true meaning of Christmas”
– A lineup photo of someone’s family you’ve never met and don’t care about
– A group shot of people from your hometown that still get together to drink on Christmas Eve
– A picture of the spread of festive food someone is about to enjoy
– A half-assed “Merry Christmas” status that no one has liked
– A selfie from someone’s Christmas getaway vacation
– Someone bragging about volunteer work on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
– Someone has changed their profile picture to a Christmas photo
– Someone posts a Christmas meme and it’s actually funny
EVERYONE takes a shot of Fireball if your first newfeed post include any of the following:
– Someone gets engaged
– Someone gets a puppy
– Someone gets a new car
– Someone uses the word “BLESSED” in a status, two shots if it’s #blessed.
– Someone gets engaged
– Someone gets a puppy
– Someone gets a new car
– Someone uses the word “BLESSED” in a status, two shots if it’s #blessed.
The Game: Get Buzzed with Buddy the Elf
What You’ll Need: Maple Syrup Shots (see below) and Angry Orchard Cinnful Apple Cider
The Rules: Pop in Elf and have your supplies on hand.
Take a sip of cider every time:
– Buddy mentions “Christmas cheer”
– Buddy says “Santa”
– Buddy eats candy
– Buddy talks to an claymation character
– People look at Buddy like he’s insane
– Buddy mentions the North Pole
– We see the Gimbles sign
– Walter does something coal-worthy
– Buddy decorates something for Christmas
– Walter gets frustrated with Buddy
– Someone is refered to as a “cotton headed ninny muggins”
– Buddy mentions “Christmas cheer”
– Buddy says “Santa”
– Buddy eats candy
– Buddy talks to an claymation character
– People look at Buddy like he’s insane
– Buddy mentions the North Pole
– We see the Gimbles sign
– Walter does something coal-worthy
– Buddy decorates something for Christmas
– Walter gets frustrated with Buddy
– Someone is refered to as a “cotton headed ninny muggins”
Take a Maple Syrup Shot when:
– Maple Syrup appears on screen
– Buddy gets drunk
– Buddy buys his dad lingerie
– Peter Dinklage shows up
– Maple Syrup appears on screen
– Buddy gets drunk
– Buddy buys his dad lingerie
– Peter Dinklage shows up
Maple Syrup Shots
Fanduel site credit. ½ shot Captain Morgan’s Original Spiced Rum
½ shot butterscotch schnapps
Combine both ingredients into your Lil Red’s Plastic Shot Glasses and keep ‘em coming, but make ‘em small so everyone lasts until the end of the movie.
½ shot butterscotch schnapps
Combine both ingredients into your Lil Red’s Plastic Shot Glasses and keep ‘em coming, but make ‘em small so everyone lasts until the end of the movie.
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The Game: The Alphabet Game: Christmas Edition
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What You’ll Need:Golden Road Gingerbread Stout
The Rules: This one works like the regular Alphabet Game, each player is tasked with coming up with a word associated with the letter of the alphabet that has landed on them in rotation, except now the words must relate to Christmas! So the first letter must be either an object, title, saying, person or character associated with Christmas. “A” could be Archangel Gabriel, “B” for Blue Christmas, “C” for chestnuts roasting on an open fire, etc. Take a sip everytime a player comes up with a creative letter association, and if a player cannot come up with a letter association after a couple seconds, they must finish their beer outside of the rotation before coming back in to play.
The Game: Buzzfeed’s Santa’s Cup Ultimate Drinking Game
What You’ll Need: A large cup/glass (Santa’s Cup), Standard Deck of Cards and your choice of beverage.
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The Rules:
1. Place “Santa’s Cup” in the middle of a table.
2. Shuffle cards and organize the cards into a circle surrounding Santa’s Cup. (Cards should be touching each other in a continuous circle).
3. Select a player to start, however you want to.
4. The starting player picks a card and shares it with the other players. The cardholder/ everyone proceeds to take action according to the rules of the drawn card.
5. Continue to play the game in a clock-wise direction until the final King is drawn and Santa’s Cup has been chugged.
Card Rules:
1. Place “Santa’s Cup” in the middle of a table.
2. Shuffle cards and organize the cards into a circle surrounding Santa’s Cup. (Cards should be touching each other in a continuous circle).
3. Select a player to start, however you want to.
4. The starting player picks a card and shares it with the other players. The cardholder/ everyone proceeds to take action according to the rules of the drawn card.
5. Continue to play the game in a clock-wise direction until the final King is drawn and Santa’s Cup has been chugged.
Card Rules:
Ace: Avalanche (Everyone chug! The person to the right of the cardholder can’t stop drinking until the cardholder does…and so on all around the circle.)
Two: Christmas Shoes (Pick some poor, needy player to drink. It’s Christmas Eve, and this drink is just their size!)
Three: What Christmas Means To Me ( It means you drink.)
Four: Four is for Ho-Ho-Hos (Ladies be drankin’.)
Five: Christmas Party (Everyone drinks and switches seats.)
Six: Saint Nick’s Peppermint Sticks (Boys be drankin’.)
Seven: Secret Santa (The player who picks the card chooses another player to be their secret santa. This means when one of them drinks they both drink for the rest of the game.)
Eight: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Everyone must make antlers. The last person to make antlers is now “Rudolph!” until another 8 is drawn. At any time, any player may yell “Rudolph with your nose so bright, wont you take a drink tonight!” and Rudolph must drink.)
Nine: Holiday Rhymes (Cardholder picks a Christmas/ holiday/ winter related word and each subsequent player must rhyme until you can’t no mo’.)
Ten: Holiday Categories (Cardholder chooses a Christmas themed category. Everyone goes around and says something that fits in the category until you blank.)
The Elf (Jack): Making a List (Everybody puts up 3 fingers. Cardholder starts “Never Have I Ever.” The first person with all of their fingers down loses and has to drink.)
Mrs. Claus (Queen): Naughty or Nice? (Cardholder starts by asking anyone a question. This player then asks anyone else a question, and so on until someone fails to ask a question.)
Santa Claus (King): I’m Telling You Why (Cardholder gets to make a rule. The rule must always be followed until another King is drawn and the rule is replaced. If you break the rule, you drink. The first 3 people who pick a King have to pour some of their drink into the cup in the middle. Whoever picks the last King ends the game. This person has to chug whatever is in the Kings Cup.)
Two: Christmas Shoes (Pick some poor, needy player to drink. It’s Christmas Eve, and this drink is just their size!)
Three: What Christmas Means To Me ( It means you drink.)
Four: Four is for Ho-Ho-Hos (Ladies be drankin’.)
Five: Christmas Party (Everyone drinks and switches seats.)
Six: Saint Nick’s Peppermint Sticks (Boys be drankin’.)
Seven: Secret Santa (The player who picks the card chooses another player to be their secret santa. This means when one of them drinks they both drink for the rest of the game.)
Eight: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Everyone must make antlers. The last person to make antlers is now “Rudolph!” until another 8 is drawn. At any time, any player may yell “Rudolph with your nose so bright, wont you take a drink tonight!” and Rudolph must drink.)
Nine: Holiday Rhymes (Cardholder picks a Christmas/ holiday/ winter related word and each subsequent player must rhyme until you can’t no mo’.)
Ten: Holiday Categories (Cardholder chooses a Christmas themed category. Everyone goes around and says something that fits in the category until you blank.)
The Elf (Jack): Making a List (Everybody puts up 3 fingers. Cardholder starts “Never Have I Ever.” The first person with all of their fingers down loses and has to drink.)
Mrs. Claus (Queen): Naughty or Nice? (Cardholder starts by asking anyone a question. This player then asks anyone else a question, and so on until someone fails to ask a question.)
Santa Claus (King): I’m Telling You Why (Cardholder gets to make a rule. The rule must always be followed until another King is drawn and the rule is replaced. If you break the rule, you drink. The first 3 people who pick a King have to pour some of their drink into the cup in the middle. Whoever picks the last King ends the game. This person has to chug whatever is in the Kings Cup.)
The Game: Prancer Pong
What You’ll Need:Saucey’s Beer Pong Starter Kit, extra plastic cups, a 30-pack of Miller Lite, Christmas Cookie Shots (see below), and a card table or dining room table.
The Rules:All of the regular rules of beer pong apply, but instead of racking the cups in a triangle formation they should make the shape of a Christmas tree. Using the blue cups from Saucey’s Beer Pong Starter Kit, place them in a few spots in your Christmas tree rack and fill them with Christmas Cookie Shots, as if they are the “ornaments” of the tree. Be sure to choose your Pong-mate wisely!
Christmas Cookie Shots
1 oz Rumple Minze
½ oz Kahlua Coffee Liqueur
½ oz Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur
½ oz Kahlua Coffee Liqueur
½ oz Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur
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