Drinking Games for Special Occasions

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..

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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.