Drink Your Way Through This Holiday Season With These 15 Drinking Games
With your single-hood hanging over your head, your filter-less grandmother firing off inappropriate comments, and 23 cousins running around, these drinking games will keep you sane this holiday season, or at least get you through.
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There are all kinds of names for this game and a million different variations for the card values, so adapt as you may, but no matter the rules, Santa's Cup is a great excuse to get your drinking on.
This one is perfect for all your holiday family gatherings, and this blogger even gives you a hypothetical run down of the night to make sure you've got the rules straight.
Nothing could make Elf a more enjoyable movie-watching experience, oh except alcohol, that would help.
So personally, I hate claymation movies, they're creepy and unrealistic despite the crazy amount of work that goes into their creation. So if I'm ever forced to watch it, I'll be playing this game. Hard.
Straightforward and oh so fun for any (and hopefully all) holiday movies. And of course, when you're wanting for a drink, you can always stretch the rules.
You probably don't even need alcohol to enjoy the cheesy and predictable insanity that are LIfetime movies, but you will have more fun with alcohol. Always.
The game itself is played like Spoons with candy canes, with an alcoholic twist: whoever loses the round takes a shot.
Classic christmas movie, classic drinking game.
All players sit in a circle with their drink of choice. One player sings the first line of a carol and it goes around the circle, line by line until someone messes up. That person drinks their drink (or takes a shot for the intense players) and starts a new carol.
The real challenge with this game is not running out of alcohol because you know you watch this movie 243 times each holiday season, that can't just be me...
Hilariously applicable rules include drink when...
-Someone makes a creepy naughty or nice reference
-Someone gets packaging rage from an impossible-to-open plastic clamshell
- For every homemade ornament on the tree that looks like actual garbage
Fully annotated rules here.
Because no matter how cute Olaf is, watching "Frozen" 4 times in one weekend with your cousins just requires some alcoholic comfort.
It may take you longer to wrap that mountain of presents, but you'll have a great time.
Divide the audience into two equal teams: The Grinch and The Whos. Whenever the narrator or any character says your team name, drink!
The first person names something holiday-related that starts with an A (Away in a Manger), the second adds B and repeats A, the third adds C, repeats A and B, and so on and so forth throughout the alphabet. Anytime someone messes up or needs a reminder, they drink!