Beer Jenga

At Laura's party a while back, we played quite a few games. Some of them were drinking games. One of which I hadn't ever heard of before, but I really liked it. It's called Beer Jenga.

It sort of feels like Jenga. There's suspense, and everyone tries to move very slowly and very carefully. There's also the moments of "oh, wait, don't move, I think it's about to collapse" and then riotous cheers when it all implodes. But it might not b what you think.

What I thought it would be is that we would play Jenga and then drink when we make it fall over. Turns out its a bit more involved than that.

To play, take a pitcher of beer. Then, put a small or medium-sized glass in the pitcher, so it floats. Everyone should have a cup of the same beer. When it's your turn, pour as much beer as you want into the floating cup. It should only be one continuous pour, but in that pour you can dump as little or as much beer as you want. If you're the one to pour enough beer in that it makes it sink, then you lose. Loser has to fish the sunken glass out & drink all the beer that's in it.

It was fun all around! It takes a bit of skill to get used to pouring just a drop of beer in. I never had to drink when we played it. Which was probably good for me, considering how much I had had to drink that night anyway.

Point of technique, though: a number of folks had squeezed their red plastic cups of beer so that they came to a nice point. They would then use this to help them more accurately pour a drop of beer.

That's bullshit. You don't get to re-shape your cup to make it easier to pour. Just pour it over the normal, rounded side. Yeah, it might be harder. That's what makes it fun. If everyone could pipette their beer in then the chemical engineering students with years of titration skills would kick our asses. And they'd think it was work.

But house rules let it slide. So it's cool. I just gave em shit for doing it. That'll teach em.