Vodka eyeballing
Pretty much exactly what it sounds like. In “Vodka eyeballing”, revelers tip back their heads and have a shot of vodka poured directly onto the eyeball, believing that the booze enters the bloodstream through veins at the back of the eye, resulting in an immediate high and deeper drunkenness. Doctors claim long-term damage such as permanent scarring and blindness could result, but “deeper drunkenness”? Eye, eye, Captain!

Beer Pong
Played at virtually every college bar and frat party in the US, this old favourite requires you to place 10 cups in the shape of a pyramid at each end of a table, with the top of the pyramid pointing towards the middle. Fill each cup half full with beer, form teams of two, and take turns gently tossing or bouncing a ping pong ball into the opposing team’s cups. Every time you nail a shot, the opposition has to skol from that cup. The game ends when all of one team’s cups are gone, they lose, and have to drink any full cups remaining on the other team’s side.




Suicide slammers
A simple and infinitely more painful variation on your standard Tequila slammers, the “suicide” variety substitutes licking a line of salt pre-shot with snorting a line of salt, and replaces sucking on a lemon post-shot with… squeezing the lemon in your eye! It’s not technically going to get you any more drunk than regular slammers, nor is it exactly fun, but hey, we’ll try anything once.




Edward Longneck Hands
Wins the award for the best-named drinking game on the list, this bizarre sport involves every participant duct-taping a longneck of beer to each hand. You can’t take them off until both longnecks are empty, meaning, say, if you need to take a slash, you either chug the beers or wet yourself. Continue for as many rounds as you deem necessary. Designed to make people drink a lot of beer fast.





Hundred 100
The rules are simple. Every minute, on the minute, for one hundred minutes, you and whoever else you’ve roped in for this madness, drink a shot of beer. Complications may arise when attempting to run to the bathroom whilst simultaneously taking your shot, but a bucket close at hand will solve that problem. Whoever lasts the longest, or doesn’t die wins.




Boat race or “flip cup”
Another one popular with the US frat crowd, this one’s a relay race played with those red plastic party cups, you know the ones. Teams are divided into four or five, each with a half cup of beer, or two shots of hard liquor. Each person must drink the contents of their cup then flip the cup from the edge of the table with their fingers until it lands in the upside-down position before the next member begins. First team to finish wins.




Wheel of goon
Also known as “Goon of Fortune” and “Wheel of four goons” depending on the region in which it’s played, for this one you’ll need to peg a bag of cask wine to a Hills Hoist and get a group of people to stand around it. Give the clothesline a hearty spin and whoever the goon bag lands near has to skol from it like a crazed calf suckling at its mother’s teat! And repeat. There’s no winner, no loser, and no point, but it’s freakin’ hilarious.




Boxing
You’ll need a stop watch, two shot glasses, four people, two dice, and a shitload of beer. It’s just like a boxing match – two people go head to head with the other two acting as “corner men”. Sitting at opposite sides of a table, each rolls a die. Whoever scores lowest takes that “punch” and drinks their shot. The corner man fills the empty shot glass as quickly as he can and you roll again. You play in three minute rounds with a 30 second rest in between. Play until someone quits or spews.




Keg stand
A popular ritual performed using a beer keg, this involves the drinker grabbing onto the keg’s handles as he is hoisted into the air by others, effectively doing a handstand while chugging directly from the keg. Traditionally, onlookers will shout out the number of seconds the drinker chugs for before having to stop. The onset of drunkenness will arrive more quickly as the alcohol in your blood is rushing to your head while you’re upside down. Gnarly.





Beat the barman
Drinker approaches the bar and orders a shot (vodka, whiskey, bourbon, etc.). Drinker pays for the drink with too much money (i.e. hand over a $5 note for a $2 drink). When the barman returns with the change, repeat from the start. Designed to both intensify inebriation and piss off the barman. Ends when the drinker falls over, gets punched in the face by the barman, or gets thrown out.