Cork Game

In this game you gather around a circle and take turns throwing a cork at the ground. The aim is to bounce the cork up past the waist without anyone catching it. If the cork doesn't go up past the waist or if someone catches it, you have to drink and go again. You could also just have who catches it go if you want; this game is mostly about throwing a cork at the ground (which me, Dan, and Alan did for multiple hours).

Vietnam

Setup: Form two teams to play beer pong: Vietnam and America. Team America should fill each of their cups halfway with beer while Vietnam distributes eight beers between their cups. America's cups should be set up normally, but Vietnam can place each of their cups wherever they would like on their side of the table. America goes first.

Object of the game: For America, the goal is simply to hit all of Vietnam's cups. Vietnam's goal is to make America give up before that happens by making them drink an excessive amount of beer.

Rules: Each team throws two balls each round. If they hit a cup, it must be drank by the opponents. Ordinary beer pong lets you get the balls back if you hit both, but this can make things get out of hand quite quickly for the Americans so we decided not to play that way. The most important change is that for America, each drank cup must be filled halfway with beer again and replaced. This means America can never lose, but it will also always be easy to hit their cups.

Special Abilities - America: America has a few special abilities that they can use at any point in the game.

  1. Napalm: Each player may, once per game, call "napalm" before their shot. If they make it, they may draw a straight line that intersects the cup to the edges of the table, then remove all cups in that line. For example, if Vietnam's cups were all in a row this would allow America to remove all of them in one go.
  2. Night Vision: Once per game, America may force the Vietnamese team to close their eyes for the next two minutes.

Special Abilities - Vietnam: Vietnam has special abilites as well, and one is extremely powerful...

  1. Draft: Can be used at any point in the game. Set up five cups behind America's back row (and fill them halfway with beer). These cups are not replenished when they are hit, however once they are gone Vietnam can use this ability again.
  2. Tet Offensive: Can be used only once. Set a timer for two minutes. During this time Vietnam may shoot continuously. Don't replace the cups during this time, but they all must be drank at the end. America must get the balls back to Vietnam quickly or they are not true Americans.

Conclusion: This game is extremely fun. We had a blast when we played it and team America got hammered. I would definitely recommend putting people who can drink a lot on team America because you've got to have stamina to win. I'm proud to say that I got America the dub when I played, though not without cost because I think I drank like 8 beers in 10-20 minutes or so. Even so, I highly recommend this game.

Matt Damon

This one is courtesy of my cousin Avery. Form two teams of roughly equal numbers of people. Then lay out a 4x4 grid of cards. One person from each team goes at a time, they must choose a card and predict higher or lower. If they get it wrong they have to drink the number of seconds equal to the cards in that stack. They have to get 3 right in a row before play passes to a player on the other team. Once the cards run out, teams alternate picking a row/column to pick up and deal out again (you must alternate rows and columns to keep the grid relatively square). This means the stacks just keep getting bigger and bigger until there is only one stack left and you're drinking for like 40-50 seconds each time you get it wrong lol. You are allowed to ask for help from your teammates with the drinking, but they don't have to give it to you. This all continues until the cards are out, then everyone has to finish their drink. There are no winners in this game, only drinking. Unless you love to drink, then everyone's a winner! And no, no one knows why it's called Matt Damon.

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