The premise was rather simple: Within two days, we had to construct a drinking (yes, indeed) game, test it (no further details were given of the nature of that, but we did it the only right way – with beer) and present it for the rest of the class. Challenge accepted!

I find it quite amazing that I never thought about posting it until now, because it was (or rather: is) a very nice drinking game. It has certainly done its part in delivering as a proper drinking-game should. The only negative part you could say about it, is that it might be a bit tricky to find 9 cups and a coaster – but at the very least you do not need any cards or any number of dice.

Anyway, onward to the important part – the rules:

THE SETUP AND WHAT YOU NEED:

• 3 to 6 players (more or less is possible, but not recommended).
• 9 glasses for the board (5×5) placed in a square (3×3).
• A middle-marker (a coaster is perfect for the job), placed under the middle cup. This only serves to make it easy to see where the middle is.

The below drawing shows the outer square-positions with the x’s, the initial glass-positions with circles, and the coaster as the square.

Every participant buys an amount of beer (it doesn’t have to be beer, the crowd just have to buy the same kind of drink), best done in a pitcher or likewise. The glasses are then filled up to 2-3 fingers (or more, depending on how hardcore you’re playing). Shot-glasses are excellent at this, as they can limit the maximum contents, while removing the need to check your pouring.

A TURN IS PERFORMED AS:
The first player takes a filled glass and jumps (vertically/horizontally) over any amount of cups (similar to the game “Checkers”). The outcome depends on whether or not the glasses which has been jumped over is empty or full.

• Each jump is one cup maximum, but you can take several jumps in one turn.
• You can jump over both types of glasses in a given turn.
• You may not end up outside the 5×5 board.
• You may not jump over the same glass twice during a turn.
• You may not use the same glass, as the previous player used, to jump with.

The outcome of a given turn depends on the amount of each of either full or empty cups. If a glass is full the next player drinks it, else the current player fills it from his pitcher. If 3 or more empty glasses are filled during a turn, you can fill extra in filled glasses – if you jumped over any of those.

Another choice is, instead of moving a cup, is to move a filled glass from the outer circle to an empty spot in the inner circle. By doing that, the player must drink it, then fill it. This does NOT have to follow the jumping rules.

In case there’s no moves left, the given player drinks all full glasses, fills all of them, and reset the board to the starting position (The 3×3 square).

END OF THE ROUND:
When all players’ pitchers are empty, and there’s no more beer to fill in the glasses, the players will eventually end up having no more possible moves, and the board is reset to the original initial 3×3 view, with a new round of beer – if possible.

The game was created along with Julian Møller, Mads Johansen and Steen Nordsmark Pedersen. Looking forward to the next game, sooner rather than later.

Be sure to check the bonus video-clip at the end of the post! I guarantee it’s worth it!

Drink whenever:

• Arnold is first seen, at the start of the movie (that means: not chronologically). Everyone cheers!
• The title of the movie is seen or heard. In honor of “End of Days“
• Arnold says “HU-ARRRHHEEH”, or a variation thereof.
• Arnold drinks alcohol (we have to support him).
• Arnold has violent (the definition of “violent” is up for discussion among the participants) PHYSICAL pain.
• Someone humanoid is killed. Large amounts of deaths is drunk continuously. In honor of “Total Recall“.
• Arnold makes breakfast (double, if it’s in a blender).
• There is a reference (has to be accepted amongst the crowd) to another movie (double, if it’s with Arnold). In honor of “Last Action Hero“.
• Arnold meets or sees himself in any possible way. In honor of “6th Day“.
• Someone (double, if it’s Arnold) says/yells “get down!” or a variation thereof.
• There’s an explosion (minimum-size has to be agreed upon in the crowd).
• A car chase starts (other gasoline-driven vehicles also counts).
• Arnold changes weapon (unarmed included). Weapons only counts if used, thus it doesn’t count as “unarmed” if it’s from one weapon to another.
• Arnold changes vehicle (same properties as the rule above).
• A fence or a variation thereof is mentioned/used/plowed down, in any way possible.
• A party is mentioned (double, if it has any connection to Richter).
• A national monument of the United States is seen on screen.
• You call out a rule, and the crowd disagrees (You lack discipline! You can already drink when you want – don’t make people drink under false premises without getting away with it).

Empty the bottle/glass whenever:

• Arnold yells “GET TO DA CHOPPA!”
• The bad guy(s) dies. Again, in honor of “6th Day“.
• Arnold dies, shuts or melts down, or anything else that renders him “un-functional”, for the rest of the movie.

Also, as a funny coincidence, this was posted a few days ago…

How many times would you drink during it?

Drink whenever:

• Arnold is first seen, at the start of the movie (that means: not chronologically).
• The title of the movie is seen or said. In honor of “End of Days“
• Arnold says “HU-ARRRHHEEH”, or variations thereof.
• Arnold has violent (the definition of “violent” is up for discussion) PHYSICAL pain.
• Someone humanoid is killed. Large amounts is drunk continuously. In honor of “Total Recall“.
• Arnold makes breakfast (double, if it’s in a blender).
• There is a reference (has to be accepted amongst the crowd) to another movie (double, if it’s with Arnold). In honor of “Last Action Hero“.
• Arnold meets/sees/whatever himself in any possible way. In honor of “6th Day“.
• Someone (double, if it’s Arnold) says/yells “get down!” or a variation thereof.
• There’s an explosion (minimum-size is up for discussion).
• There’s a car chase.
• Arnold changes weapon (unarmed included). Weapons only counts if used, thus it doesn’t count as “unarmed” if it’s from one weapon to another.
• Arnold changes vehicle (same properties as the rule above).
• A fence or a variation thereof is mentioned/used/plowed down, in any way possible.
• A party is mentioned (double, if it has any connection to Richter).
• You call out a rule, and the crowd disagrees (You lack discipline! You can already drink when you want – don’t make people drink under false premises without getting away with it).

Empty the bottle/glass whenever:

• Arnold yells “GET TO DA CHOPPA!”
• The bad guy dies. Again, in honor of “6th Day“.
• Arnold dies, shuts or melts down, or anything else that renders him “un-functional”, for the rest of the movie.

As a special something, I had prepared a minor warm-up (with rules), since Arnold had been present at the Climate COP15 Meeting in Copenhagen (where I, as you might know, live). Naturally, it was originally in danish, but I took the effort and made a translation. Don’t worry, the links to the videos are fine, nothing is in Danish (however, if you want, you can see the original page in Danish here), so everything should be good.

<<< PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GOVERNATOR! >>>

In the following video-clip below, use these rules, and refer to the original rules for reference.

DRINK WHENEVER:

• The word “climate” is heard.
• The word “Copenhagen” is heard.
• An applause is heard.
• 2 words, decided by the people, is heard. (I think these ended up being “global” and “green”)

EMPTY THE CLASS/BOTTLE WHENEVER:

• One of the normale rules would have effect (let’s not get into the latter ones…).

“I’M AT COP 15, YOU IDIOT!”

Enjoy – and cheers!

Saturday and Sunday – October 10th and 11th (Silly French!):
Just before getting on the airplane from Guadalajara, we stumbled into two French, of which one Charlotte knew from some weeks back. We found out we were heading on the same plane, and had the same final destination… and thus the epic journey started. Upon arriving in Veracruz, we got a bus-ticket at around 22 (7 hours drive to Oaxaca), which meant quite a few hours to spend in Veracruz.

Around 5 hours, dinner at the beach, lots of walking, and stocking up for a party at around 5 in the night (the time of arrival in Oaxaca) later, we got on the bus. Semi-comfortable trip, that left me with a slightly hurting neck (stupid “comfortable” chairs) and a convinced feeling that “Mean Machine” is indeed a better “popular sports-star gets busted for heavy drunk-driving, thrown into jail, where he forms a team of the inmates (including the “cool prisoners”, and the “chained insane beast”) to beat the guards’ team”-movie than “The Longest Yard”. And no, it has nothing to do with the fact that it was a Spanish-synced version I saw.

Anyway, we arrived at Oaxaca around 5, and joined the French and their friends for a few hours until we decided it was time to crash a hostel for some sleep (from 7 to 13 approximately). Needless to say, we didn’t get much done during that day, except drifting around a bit in the city, looking for things to do Monday/Tuesday, got a bit to eat… and semi-stoned a bit more, until joining the French again during the evening. To sum up the evening up fast: the French are (some of them at least) silly, insane and and a nice bunch.

Interlude:
I wrote earlier that I couldn’t quite put my finger on any exact differences between Guadalajara and Oaxaca. I found one – but it might be because of the close proximity to the center of the city: People are honking their car-horns like horny young rabbits on speed during mating-season. Combine that with the fact that houses are NOT isolated from sound here, and my frustration should be logical [insert large amounts of creative swearwords, colorful curses and not-for-the-weak terms of disgust here].

As a closing statement for Sunday, I would like to add that the addition of “You’re hot/sexy” at the end of every sentences (when speaking to a female or male, respectfully), is very splendid for the “King’s Cup” every drinking game.

Never the less, we’re currently on our way to Oaxaca, and in this moment sitting in the national part of Guadalajara Airport, set to board a plane to Veracruz… where we’ll (either tomorrow or later) take a 6 hour bus-drive that’ll bring us to Oaxaca (the city, that is). Should be exciting and very beautiful. Which leads me to what happened yesterday…

Friday, October 9th (Language Barrier!):
A busted camera, at the worst possible time (as the trip to Oaxaca lies virtually just ahead), and in the worst possible way (almost), as I got an unintended push, and – possibly out of surprise – dropped the camera. At first, it didn’t look like anything had happened. The “shell” hadn’t even gotten a single scratch, but the lens was “bend” (the camera was turned on when dropped). Good thing it is insured, but I’ll get to that when I get back home.

Besides that, the evening was really good. We met up with alot of the other exchange students (or well, more appropriate to call them our friends) in order to have dinner and see “Inglorious Basterds”… To say the least, going to a sushi-restaurant in Spanish is mildly confusing on many different levels. First of all, the mix of Spanish and Japanese names is confusing. Next, it’s food, which makes it even harder. Thankfully, we found an English menu-description, which made it a lot easier. Even better was the drinks (nom nom Appletini)!

Had I remembered how much of the movie that wasn’t in English, along with the fact that it was now naturally subtitled in Spanish… I probably wouldn’t have gone to see it. Add the comfortable chair, cold beer and the fact that I had seen it before, made me slip into sleep quite a few times, despite gunshots, explosions and other such loud sounds. As confusing and all as the day may sound, it was good.