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THUMB-MASTER

Every hour (or two, or once a night if you want) one of your party is picked to be the "Thumb Master", exactly how you do this is up to the group, they effectively lead the game. If one of your party is not drinking for any reason, they may wish to be the Thumb Master.

Each time a round is bought, an extra drink is bought (this being the forfeit) and placed on the table. The Thumb Master's task is to discretely place one of their thumbs over the edge of the table. Once they have done this, the other players must do the same (i.e. if the Thumb Master places their left thumb on the table the other must also place their left thumb on the table). The last person to do it has to drink the extra drink(s) and the Thumb Master acts as a judge in close calls.

The only real rule is that everyone must be at the table when the Thumb Master places their thumb (it wouldn't really be sporting to do it when someone was at the bar or in the toilet).

The cunning player will try to be as discrete as the Thumb Master to avoid losing in a rush to the table, you can just look smug as everyone else suddenly realises that two or three people already have their thumbs on the table.

Ibble Dibble is a great game I first tried out yesterday. It is at least half of the reason why I have a headache today (the other one is fuzzy duck).

3 to 15 people (depending on how drunk you all are - three can sometimes be enough) sit in a ring and get named 'Ibble Dibble 1', 'Ibble Dibble 2' and so on. Number one starts out with saying: 'Ibble Dibble 1 with no spots on my head, talking to Ibble Dibble ?(number of any person in the game) with no spots on his head'. This gets passed around until someone cracks. Now you take a wine-cork and sooth one end over a candle or with a lighter. Then press it against the forehead of the person who missed - now he/she is 'Ibble Dibble ? with 1 spot on his/her head'

The person will then take a big mouthfull of whatever you're drinking before starting the game again. The hard bit is to remember how many spots you've got on your own head.

One I barely remember from my mis-spent youth was "Colonel Puff". It's very simple and quite stupid but it did the trick. At a (hopefully) full table someone begins. "Cheers to Colonel Puff for the first time tonight" one sip of beer, one tap with the right hand index finger on the top of the table, one tap with the left, one tap under the table with the right hand index finger, one with the left, stand up once, sit down and say "Puff" once. Next person does the same thing but doubleing everything ("...second time tonight." two taps, stand twice, two sips, "Puff, Puff.") and so on (going up numerically, not doubling although that could be interesting...) until someone makes a mistake and must start again after drinking their entire beer.

No driving!!!

get 2 dice and a table of people and 1 person throws both and each number represents something, 3 person who threw drinks, 7 everyone salutes and says chump the last one to, drinks, 9 the person on your left drinks, 11 the person on your right drinks, any doubles u get to hand out the number of drinks illistrated by one dice (double 5 is 5 drinks) and if someone gets 3 doubles in a row they get to make any rule they want, someone i know made a rule which was every time you drink u must say "dev's a legend" (devs his name) and it gets u very hammered and is lots of fun to play