Ring of Fire

Setup

A pack of cards
A drink for everyone (you’d think it’d be obvious, but there’s always one retard)
A table (not necessary, but makes it easier to keep your cards and drink on :P)

Rules to drink by

Everyone sits round the pack in a circle (this is where the table comes in :P)
You take it in turns to draw a card, and what’s on the card determines what happens next. Also, you can’t go to the toilet (‘toiletting out’) unless you have a toilet card (see 8).

Ace : Ring of Fire! Everyone starts downing thier drink simultaneously, and you can’t stop till the person whose turn is before you stop’s drinking. The card-holder gets to stop first.

2 – 5 : You get to deal out 2-5 allocations (1 allocation is one gulp of your drink)

6 : Thumb card; the card is kept in view, and the holder can put his thimb on the table whenever he wants (not sure how you do it without a table though…). The last person to put thier thumb on the table has to drink 2.

7 : Theme card; the holder thinks of a word, and the next person in turn has to think of a word that relates to it (tree -> bush -> war-monger -> IQ 60 -> bush… ahem ;p )

8 : Toilet card; you may now toilet out! It’s also fun if a mate needs the loo bad, cuz you can say ‘I’ll let you have the card, IF you…’. Oh the power xD

9 : Rhyme card (it rhymes with nine; thats how I remember it); same as a theme card, but the new word has to rhyme with the original.

10 : 1) Question card; The card is kept in play, and if the holder asks someone else a question (can’t be about the question card itself :P) and they answer, they drink 2. However, if the person being asked says ‘Challenge’, then the holder must drink ;D
2) Have you ever/I’ve never; The holder asks a ‘Have you ever…’ or ‘I’ve never…’ type question (even if they have). Everyone who HAS done what the holder said has to drink (great if you know something about on of your mates that no-one else does :P)

Jack : Rule card (personal fav); you get to make up any rule, with a few unspoken guidelines: strip rules should never be enforced, and you can’t single someone out by name (but you can say ‘Everyone with an eyebrow piercing…’ if you want to get the one person with an eyebrow piercing :P)

Queen : No swearing; keep the card on the table in view. If anyone swears, they get 2 allocations and the card is returned

King : No names; same as the Queen, but this time you can’t say the names of any of the players

Joker : Jug card; everyone pours some of thier drink into a jug or other container (still remember when I drank from a teapot…) and everyone draws a card. The lowest card (we usually have aces low, but sup to you) has to down the jug. The cards go back in the pack

Other little bits:
An ongoing joke is that one toilet card is for a piss, two for a shit, and three for a wank 😛 was a bit random when a mate actually DID use his 3 cards though…

Feel free to break from my local theme. True, it’ll be shiter and rabid dogs will feast on your flesh, but your choice 😀

Suit isn’t important (unless such a custom rule is in play)

Drinks get spilt a LOT in a full game, so don’t say you weren’t warned 😉

Finally, know thy enemy! Friends and foes WILL be made, so unless your too fucked to care, watch your back / drink’s alcohol content!

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DD from Nailsea 6th ;p