Forget about all of the snobs who say drinking games are immature. This game will transform even the stuffiest wine sniffer into a beer slurping believer. After running through the gauntlet of college drinking games, I have realized that this game reigns supreme. Beer Hockey has an “athletic” component and definitely promotes healthy competition. It doesn’t demand any equipment other than a quarter, a table like surface, some opponents, and enough beer (or any other beverage) to get the job done.The setup: All players sit/stand around a table with their beer in front of them.  Although a game can be played with 2 people, a good game requires 3 or more.Objective: To get everyone else at the table stumbling drunk while moderating your own drinking.

 Instructions: Pick someone to start the game. That person will be the spinner. He/she will spin the quarter on the table and call out another player who will be the shooter. Once the shooter is called everyone can begin guarding their beers from the shooter (see image below for proper guarding form). The shooter needs to hit the other players’ beers with the quarter.  Normally the shooter uses a swiping movement, which is similar to a hockey stick hitting a puck. The shooter needs to take his/her shot while the coin is still spinning. If the shooter hits a beer and the quarter bounces off and keeps spinning, anyone can jump in and start shooting the quarter at opponents’ beers for as long as the quarter spins. No one involved can move their beer while people are shooting.

 If a person or multiple people are hit, ridicule them and congratulate all shooters on their assassin like skills. Here is where the drinking starts. The original shooter now spins the quarter. All players who were just hit have to chug their beer for as long as the quarter spins on the table. Those who are not pounding their beers can flick the quarter to keep it spinning. If in the shooting melee, the original shooter gets hit, another shooter can spin the quarter for the chugging. If a player gets hit multiple times they need to chug for that many quarter spins. The first person who was hit becomes the new spinner and the action resumes.

 If no one gets hit, then the person to the left of the original spinner becomes the spinner and the mayhem starts again. Make sure that players aren’t putting up their guards before a name is called or blocking the beer with their whole hand. The hand can be moved up and down, as long as only the 2 fingers in the image are covering the beer from the quarter.

Here are a few extra rules of play which spice up the game: If a player spills a beer, they need to chug the rest of it. If they spill more than half, they need to chug a whole beer. All beers on the table are open game for shooters. Their owner will have to drink if they get hit. This includes beers of players who leave the table to go to the bathroom or anywhere else.

The game ends when the beer runs out. Enjoy this game and the mayhem which it brings. See the Beer Hockey Video Highlight Reel here. 

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