We were talking about this drinking game at wok and I thought I would throw it out there for those of you who were in college. Don't come crying to me if you die!

To play Edward 40 Hands, duct tape a 40 once bottle of beer to each hand. You may not remove the duct tape until you finish both beers. If you think about the implications, this means you need to:

1) Finish both beers before you have to pee

or

2) Get someone to help you pee

or

3) Pee in your pants

Obviously condition one is considered victory, though if you can get a member of the opposite sex to help you with option two, you have unlokced the alternate win condition.

Have fun! Report back here with tales of glory and/or woe!

Taping the bottles in such a way that you have use of your fingers in considered cheating, BTW.

I assume you need to wear a belt/zippered pants or some such? It seems to me that wearing sweats would render this silly.

I've also heard it so that you are allowed to take one of the bottles off after you finish it, meaning you can pee by yourself after you've knocked one off.

The names of these games are the best part for me, because I'm obviously long past the days of playing them. I think I've told this story before, but one of my favorites was called "Jerry's Kids." Play went like this: take seven coins, throw them on a table, give one drink away for every head, drink one yourself for every tail, repeat until you start acting like one of the titular "Kids," which tends to happen rather quickly. Variations can include making special rolls mean different things (e.g. all seven of heads or tails doubles the drinking tally), or "Progressive Jerry's Kids," which adds a coin every round.

I have done this a few times, usually we do it with one malt liquor 40 and like a Bud or Corona 40.

It's fun and usually you don't have to pee before you finish, but you just vomit instead from drinking too fast (also considered a loss). We would play this a lot in high school because there wasn't much else to do on the weekends unless someone's parents were gone.

This is awesome, though it seems like the majority of the ruination falls on the head of the tosser. If you, as the tosser, target one person as the recipient of all of your gifted drinks, that person would get equally fucked up. Is the idea that the room gradually gets filled with Jerry's kids as tossers and their victems drop out and get replaced?

That's interesting...I guess it's correct to say that a particular roller will usually drink more than the others at the table for his particular roll, assuming an equal amount of heads and tails, but my memory is that it tends to even out. And the idea behind the name is that everyone starts behaving like a Kid within a pretty short amount of time.

Doing this with malt liquor may be the very pinnacle of problem drinking. There is zero chance that you do not disgrace yourself in some spectacular way after completing your 40s. Make sure someone has a camera to capture the fun!

Only some kind of subhuman would tape 40s to his hands and wear sweatpants.

I know - I mean, let's have a little self respect here!

When we did this, one of our friends was sitting cross-legged on the floor and just vomited right into his lap. It was gross. He lost.

After two liters of beer at the Biergarten in EPCOT, i can wait a couple of hours or so before i really have to pee.

I've done this while camping with a buddy and we both finished in an hour...so no need for potty breaks. The only reason we did this was because lost golf bets the day before. One of the guys that won the bets turned it into a drinking game between us two. He put on Roxanne by The Police and every time you heard "Roxanne", drink from the right hand. Every time you heard "red light" drink from the left hand. Brutal.

Jesus, if he put on the live extended version, you'd die of alchohol poisoning.

I know if I were still in school and engaged in this type of game, I would simply play sans pants.

I almost played about 3 weeks ago, but I was too late and the game had started. Thus there were no more 40s. They played when you finished 1 you can remove said bottle, so it was easy to pee.

This is a fun game...Beerfest is this weekend for myself so should be interesting.

"40 oz to freedom is the only chance I have to feel good, even though I feel bad."

Any breakfast drinking games? Apparently I'll be tailgating the NYPD/FDNY hockey game this weekend.

ive never played this game but used to sometimes buy 2 fortys so i wouldnt have to keep going to the fridge or cooler. the risk was holding onto them too long because one would get warm, so this was incentive enough to kill one fast. this might be why i finish anything im drinking before anyone usually, and im not talkign about alcohol, just beverages in general. i always need like 3 refills at restaurants.

Here's one:

1. Take can from cooler
2. Open can
3. Drink contents of can completely
4. Repeat until you can't remember anything.

What happened to games like 3-man, Asshole, and Quarters? Times were much simpler then. The closest I ever came to this 40 hands thing is Power Hour: take a shot of beer every minute for an hour. Sounds like it's harmless, but only a couple people made it to the end.

What's 3 man?

Power hour is fun. Sometimes I miss college....

It's a dice rolling game. Everyone rolls a die, and the 1st one to roll a 3 is 3 Man. Everyone takes a turn rolling the dice. Any time a 3 comes up (on one die or the total of both dice) 3 Man drinks. Total of 7, person to the right drinks, 11 person to the left drinks, 9 is a social. Roll doubles and pick anyone else to roll the dice (or give one die to 2 people) and they have to drink the total amount of sips. I think there was something about a certain number making you touch your nose, and the last person to do it has to drink.

Power Hour is usually the death of me. Seems like such a good idea at the start, but once you hit the last quarter of an hour, everything falls apart. And I haven't played Edward 40 hands, but 40's of Colt 45 are usually our cheap drink of choice during the summer, so I have confidence in myself that I would be able to pull it off.

Irish Poker?

Everyone gets 4 cards face down. Start off with one person they have to guess if the card is red or black, if they guess right they give out as many seconds as the card is worth with face cards being 10 seconds and an ace being 1 second and if they guess wrong they take as many seconds as the card is worth.

Then you guess if the second card is lower or higher than the the first.
Then guess if the third card is in between or outside of the first 2 cards.
Then finally, guessing a suit for the fourth card.

Highly recommend this one, it takes a good while but everyone loves a little bit of poker and some drinking.

Kings is fun, too bad I don't remember the rules I was that fucked up after...

Wow....all this drinking game talk is reminding how very much I don't miss college.

3-man was the only of the aforementioned games that I actually liked to play.

Beer pong was always fun, too.

Here's a question: At what age is it no longer socially acceptable to play drinking games? I'm 36 years old and I still love beer pong and flip cup, and in the proper setting would attempt just about any binge-drinking game. Because responsible heavy drinking -- no drunk driving, no "I need my stomach pumped", no date rapey behavior -- is effin' awesome. Last weekend I had friends over to my house for BBQ and someone commented that all my back deck is missing is a beer pong table, and I kinda agree with him.

I was thinking this exact thing today. I'm only 22, so it's not really pressing yet, but I was thinking to myself when it would be socially unacceptable for me to play beer pong? I love playing and don't look forward to the day I'm forced to give it up.

Games make drinking just that much more awesome.

Edit: I think the answer must have something to do with having kids of your own. Although my parents didn't/don't let that stop them. So who knows?

If you're ever looking to get realllllllllly messed up, try this game:

http://www.webtender.com/handbook/games/death-ring.game

One of my favorites when I was in college in the mid 70's
http://www.webtender.com/handbook/games/cardinalpuff.game.

I think it depends on the context. If you're in your mid- to late thirties, and you're going out to bars in the city to play beer pong, as some of my friends do, you're too old. However, a year and a half ago, some friends and I rented a house out in the woods somewhere for a weekend, for a friend's bachelor party, and we had epic flip cup and beer pong tournaments. That was awesome. If you're sitting around on a summer evening and grilling some stuff in Leedsy's backyard, and a flip cup game breaks out, hey, it's all fun among friends.

An actual beer pong table that doesn't serve any other purpose is probably a little much, though.

Well, duh, when I play Edward Fortyhands I just wear a sundress and no underwear!







Just kidding.

The house I lived in my senior year of college had a mini-"tradition" of Edward Fortyhands, but I managed to avoid it, which is good, because I would not be able to hold that much 40.

And you're never too old to play drinking games. Just don't be a douche.

I take my drinking far too seriously to play games.

I have a cousin who used to play in those games. He represented the FD. I can't recall which house he worked with.

EDIT: He worked in 4 Truck, 54 Engine on 8th Ave and 54th Street.

I recently learned about Wizard Status: get yourself a case of cans and duct tape the cans together top-to-bottom as you finish them. When your "staff" is as tall as you, you have achieved Wizard Status. Perhaps afterwards you can use your newfound powers to conjure away the fatty deposits on your liver.

I agree with this 100%. In fact, this is about the only time I ever drink anymore. Flip cup is my favorite drinking game.

A specialty where I went to school was beer die. You start with a standard beer pong table, with two people at either end, each with a cup of beer. The four teams alternate turns throwing a single die up (at least half as high as the table is long) so as to get it into the other team's cup on the bounce. If it misses the cup, the team on the far end has to catch the die one handed. If they fail to catch the die, or if they use more than one hand, they take a single drink. (5 drinks to a cup.) If you get it in the cup, the person whose cup it is has to chug the rest of his beer and spit out the die. If it comes up 5 the has to refill and chug again. Anytime someone says the word five, they have to drink. I forget how many points it takes to win. There are all sorts of minor rules as well.

Hrrmpt, yes. Quite right, quite right. Beer ponging and cup flipping is for the youth.

Indeed, old chap - now let us retire to the study, wherein we might test our skill at pitching double-eagles into snifters of cognac!

I say! 't would be a jolly old time! Perhaps we can fire up a rousing number on the Victrola whilst we imbibe!

I have never played Beer Pong or Flip Cup or whatever. I don't think it was even invented when I was in H.S., which is probably the last time I played any drinking games. The one year that I actually went away to college, I don't remember ever drinking (I don't really remember much of anything). After that year, I never went away to school. Then I worked in the City, so anytime I drank it was only at bars after work. It wasn't until recently that I even heard about Beer Pong, but now, living in the City it's pretty much all bars (or home but the apartment is too small to set up a big table). Same with all of our friends, none of which have houses.

Thumper anyone?

what's the name of the game?

"Thumper!"

What are we gonna do?

Get! Fucked! Up!




nope.

do you love beer pong? do you love flip cup? then you're going to love the newest drinking game sensation that's sweeping the nation....

FLINGO!!!

flingo is a game of speed and skill that combines the elements of both beer pong and flip cup. you play on a table you would use for beer pong in teams of 2. but your teammate stands on the opposite side of the table from you, instead of next to you. each player has a rack of cups in front of them, usually of 3 or 6 cups. instead of throwing the ball into your opponents cup you throw them in your teammates. ball goes in, your teammate drinks. then, before they can throw back at your cups they have to successfully flip the cup flip cup style. so it goes back and forth until both teammates have no cups left. first team with no cups left wins.

flingo

Goin' down to South Jersey tonight to catch up with H.S. drinking buddies. Plan is to break out the old-school drinking games. It'll be worth the 2 hour train ride!

Thumper and speed quarters. One of the gals was playing both with vodka cranberry...and still standing by the end of the night.