We’re sure there has been a moment in your life when you and your partner have longed to do more than just sip wine and eat cheese like civilised adults. Before this moment, you may have also thought drinking games were purely to be played with a large group of friends - but you would be mistaken! There are actually multiple fun drinking games for couples and so, we’ve put together a list of our favourites and broken down how you can play each one.

Here’s a few you can play with just you and your loved one:

Snapshot 

Snapshot is an ideal drinking game for couples as the traditional version (snap) is played with just two players. Snapshot is the all-grown-up version of snap, with the welcomed addition of alcohol! We’re sure you can probably guess how this is played, but here are the rules for your reference:

• Split the deck between you and your love with the cards facing down.
• Taking it in turns, each player should take a card from their set ensuring that neither player can see the card until it is on top of the pack. At the last moment, the card must then be turned over.
• When two cards of the same value are displayed the first person to shout ‘snap!’ and place their hand on top of the pack wins all the cards on the table. With this adult edition, the loser of each round must take a shot.
• When an incorrect snap is made, that person must take a shot too. Try to keep your nerve!
• At the end of the game, the loser of the entire game must take two shots and remove an article of clothing. (Sounds interesting now, huh?)
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  Russian Roulette 
  
  

For this less alarming take on a truly terrifying game, no revolvers are needed – just a rather large shot of vodka. This is another great drinking game for couples because the intensity is at its highest when the chances of receiving the shot are 50/50.

Here’s how you play:

• Fill as many shot glasses as you like with water (or a similarly clear liquid) and one with vodka.
• Take it in turns to shuffle the glasses while the other player closes their eyes. This is to ensure there is not even a whiff of cheating.
• Each player then takes it in turns to drink the shot in front of them, moving the shots one place to the left after they have taken their turn.
• When the unfortunate souls gets the shot, they also have to perform a dare – doubly cruel, we know.

Fast Questions Drinking Game

The Fast Questions drinking game can be hilarious when played as a couple, as you both know exactly how to push each other’s buttons. If you’re playing with shots, we would recommend laying a few out in front of you before starting the game as we’re sure you’ll be drinking quite a few!

How to play:

• Each player must take it in turns to be the question master and must ask the other player yes or no questions.
• The half of the couple who is answering the questions HAS to answer within 2 to 4 seconds with a yes or no.
• If there is a hesitation or anything other than yes or no is said, then the player has to take a shot.
• Any laughing or hesitation constitutes taking a shot too.
• If a question is repeated the questioner must take a drink instead. It has to be fair!
  
  

Flip, Sip or Strip 

The stripping aspect of this game is what makes it one of the best drinking game for couples. Who else would you want to get drunk and partially naked with? This game is super easy and fun to play too, making it a definite contender for any intimate night in.

How to play:

• Flip a coin and have your partner guess the result.
• If they guess correctly on their first go it is their turn to flip.
• If they do not guess correctly, you should keep flipping the coin until they get it right, or until the coin has been flipped a maximum of three times
• If they get it right on the second try, they must answer any question you have. (This can be any burning or embarrassing question you’ve been dying to ask)
• If your partner gets it right on the third attempt, they must take a shot.
• If they get it wrong three times, they must take a shot and remove an article of clothing making the game all the more interesting!

We hope some of these games take your fancy and you and your partner have an intimate (and competitive) night in. It goes without saying, but make sure you drink responsibly and don’t let your partner lose too many times!

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While playing a particularly intense game of throwing ping pong balls into beer cups, have you ever found yourself wondering what the history of beer pong is? Your answer may be no, as your thoughts were most likely drowning in alcohol at that point, so we’re going to save you the trouble and educate you now. You can thank us later! This slightly confusing history of beer pong will provide you with some annoyingly good trivia to share with your friends, and become the group know-it-all.

The Feud

If you refer to Wikipedia for your research, you will find that Dartmouth College apparently invented beer pong somewhere between the 1950s-1960s. Controversially, Bucknell University also claims that they were the creators of the game back in the 1970s. To add more controversy, they also apparently named it ‘throw pong’.  (Is it still the same game if it has a different name? Out of beer pong and throw pong I know which one I’d prefer to play).

The Method

To tell the full history of beer pong, apparently, the game was originally played at Dartmouth with a net and paddles too, explaining the ‘pong’ part of the name. Bucknell claims that they invented the paddle-free version of the game, and thus should gain the reigning crown of beer pong originators.

The Slightly Confusing Addition

Some of you may also know ‘Beer Pong’ as ‘Beirut’. It is the same as beer pong, just weirdly named after the Lebanese capital. Why, you ask? Quite frankly, no one knows. Some say it may be to do with the Lebanese civil war in the 1980’s, but we cannot fathom for the life of us why it would be named after that. Beer pong is fun; a civil war is a distinctly not fun. But we thought you should be aware of the name change nonetheless.

To Summarise 

The history of beer pong is somewhat confusing and downright strange at times, but there you have it. Our theory is that no one can remember where or why Beer Pong originated because they were all too good at playing the game and wiped their minds of any memory with intoxication. What’s your theory? We’d love to hear about it!

Other Drinking Games

Ultimate American Style Beer Pong Set

was: £9.50
Now: £7.75

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Original Beer Pong Kit

was: £9.50
Now: £7.75

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Party Beer Pong Set

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Now: £8.25

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Twist Pong Set

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March is a wonderful month. Not only is spring approaching, St Patrick’s Day is too! In true festive spirit, we’ve searched far and wide to compile a list of the best Irish drinking games out there. No cards are needed for these group drinking games, all you need to do is bring yourself (and maybe a potato, but we’ll explain that later).

Blarney’s Beer Pong Drinking Game

We’re not certain who Blarney is, but apparently, he’s charming and we can certainly get behind this St Patrick’s Day Irish drinking game. If you’ve not played beer pong before, here’s a list of all the beer pong rules you need:

Beer Pong Rules

We recommend making it more festive by requesting everyone playing speaks in an Irish accent for the duration of the game. Warning: This may get more difficult the more alcohol is consumed.

Shot Potato

Stand in a circle with a group of your rowdiest friends, find yourself a potato, stick on some classic St Patrick’s day tunes and prepare some shots ready for when the party starts. Any ideas as to how this game works? That’s right! You guessed it. Pass the potato around the circle and when the music stops, whoever is holding the potato has to begrudgingly take a shot. To take the edge off the alcohol, we recommend using our Ice Shot Glasses Mould to help it go down easily! The best part about this game is that no one gets eliminated, so you can continue to play until you are suitably ready to start dancing the Irish jig.

St. Patrick Says

Similar to Simon Says in name, and similar in… pretty much everything else. Except this time, it’s played in a bar and not at a children’s party. St Patrick is notoriously more ruthless than sweet Simon, so be sure to listen to everything he says! In our own added twist, if a member of the party fails to comply with St Patrick’s rules more than 3 times, they have to down their entire drink as punishment. (We would recommend using our Ultimate Beerbong to ensure this is the case, but maybe you’re not as harsh!)

Drink While You Think

If you’re bad at thinking on the spot, you may want to step out of this round. The rules of this Irish drinking game are to choose a category (so general celebrities, or in traditional St Patrick’s Day style, famous Irish people) and the first player starts by stating the name of a celebrity. If they said ‘Seamus Heaney’, the next player will then have to think of a celebrity’s name starting with the first letter of the previous celebrity’s surname. Difficult, right?

The Belfast and The Furious

We included this one because it made us laugh quite a lot. This Irish drinking game is ideal to play after you have played the first four listed, as by this time you will be distinctly intoxicated and ready to challenge someone to a one block ‘drag race’. No cars are involved, only feet. According to the rules, men must borrow a pair of high heels – no exceptions.

We hope you enjoy the games as much as we did writing about them! Have a fantastic St Patrick’s Day and be sure to drink responsibly..

Other Drinking Games

Ultimate American Style Beer Pong Set

was: £9.50
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Original Beer Pong Kit

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Now: £7.75

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Now: £8.25

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Twist Pong Set

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Everybody's talking about the Eurovision Song Contest right now. The silliest event on the music calendar is still a few months away, but it's been announced that, when Eurovision 2015 does take place in May, Australia will be one of the nations competing for douze points.

Yes, you read that correctly, and no, we didn't mean to type 'Austria'. Eurovision has long been popular down under, and now the Aussies are getting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sing for Europe and take the coveted microphone trophy away from its home continent for the first time ever (assuming you count Israel and Azerbaijan as European nations).

To celebrate this news, and to gear up for everyone's favourite cheese-fest, we've combined the Eurovision Song Contest with another of Australia's favourite things: alcohol! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's our very own Eurovision Drinking Game - why not watch some past contests with your pals this weekend and get some practice in for May 23?

Part 1 - The Songs

 Rule #1 - Drink every time there's a key change.
Trust us, there'll be loads of them.

Rule #2 - Drink every time fireworks are used.
Eurovision without the pyrotechnics would be like professional wrestling without the weapons: probably a lot safer, but much less enjoyable for it.

Rule #3 - If any of you make a remark about the outfits, all of you must take a drink.

Everyone in the room will break this rule multiple times

Rule #4 - If something goes wrong, take a drink.
This rule includes wardrobe malfunctions, singers forgetting the words, sound/lighting issues, fluffed dance routines, and anything else that clearly wasn't in the script.

Rule #5 - Take a drink for every non-anglophone country whose song is entirely in English.
Then, take a moment to ponder the Westernisation of the world and its formerly diverse culture.

Credit to Eurovision via GIPHY

Part 2 - The Voting

Rule #6 - Take a drink for every country that doesn't give Britain any points.
It's not like our acts ever deserve any points. We might as well celebrate our crapness!

 Rule #7 - Take a drink every time a new country takes the lead.
For the uninitiated: the leaderboard is updated every time another country announces its votes, and the country at the top changes quite frequently, especially early on.

Rule #8 - Take a drink every time a country gives 12 points to a neighbouring country.
You may want to keep an atlas handy for this one.

 Rule #9 - Take a drink whenever one of the vote announcers says something in French.
'Douze points' will come up a lot. Note that this rule doesn't apply to the French announcer. 

Rule #10 - If Britain win...you know what? We're not even going to bother making a rule for this.
It'll never happen.

Credit to Eurovision via GIPHY

Don't forget to stock up on drinking accessories before your big Eurovision drink-a-thon!

Other Drinking Games

Ultimate American Style Beer Pong Set

was: £9.50
Now: £7.75

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Original Beer Pong Kit

was: £9.50
Now: £7.75

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Party Beer Pong Set

was: £9.99
Now: £8.25

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Twist Pong Set

was: £9.99
Now: £8.25

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