Like to socialize with friends and keep yourself busy playing a game? But
you say beer pong is too frat boy-like and you're short of a deck of cards
to play poker and Monopoly sounds like something your parents would do
and therefore automatically lame? Have no fear, chinese checkers is here.
Chinese Checkers:
Players: 2–6
Playing time: 10 minutes to 2 hours
Don't know how to play chinese checkers?
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Okay, so what you'll need calls for more supplies than usual, so
more individuals than usual to drink, I suppose.
1. To make the wells of the board that you put your game pieces
into, you can use your cliche red and white drinking cups with alcohol
inside (which will keep your game pieces afloat, if you chose to use ping
pong balls), or you can use the tops of beer bottles. If you don't have a
great big space to work with, bottles would probably be the best bet. If
you're not a poor college student, drinking glasses or wine glasses can be
used as a substitute. In any event, you will need 100 cups or bottles
and you will need to arrange them in the shape of a hexagram.
2. Your game pieces can either be your usual ping pong balls or
anything you have that fill fit into your wells (or rest on top of, in the
case of a beer bottle). Whatever you use, you should make sure that you
can distinguish between each player's pieces. This can be done by
simply drawing a mark on top of the ping pong balls, or putting the effort
into painting them before hand with colors of your choice (or finding a
place that holds them in a variety of colors). Each player must have
have ten pieces. So, if you're playing with six players (or six teams, I
suppose), you will need a total of sixty pieces.
3. Enjoy. In the spirit of making a good ol' drinking game, fill your
base's cups up with the beverage of your choice (beer, absinthe,
moonshine, etc). Finish it off when you finish. The wells in between the
bases, or in the center of the hexagram, could be filled with some neutral
H20.
Drink responsibly.
