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Beer Pong Drinking Game — What is it and what are the rules?

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By Mairyn Chorney on May. 23, 2018

Beer Pong Drinking Game — What is it and what are the rules?

Beer Pong is a drinking game where players throw a ping pong ball across a table with the goal of landing the brawl in the opposing team'south cups. If a ball lands in a cup, the defending team must remove it from the table and drink the beer in the cup. Each team takes turns shooting until one squad eliminates all of their opponent's cups.

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How to Play the
Beer Pong Drinking Game

What You'll Need to Play:

  • 20 solo cups
  • i eight-foot long rectangular table
  • 2 ping pong assurance
  • Beer (of your pick, just preferably non your finest craft brew)

Setup for a Standard Beer Pong Game:BeerPongSetup

  1. Choice teams: Usually Beer Pong is played with 2 teams of 2 simply you lot tin have as many people on a team as yous'd like. Just take turns throwing!
  2. Adjust cups: Generally 10 in a pyramid-like formation on your team's side of a standard viii-foot tabular array. Fill each cup with your desired amount of beer. Typically, 2 beer cans are used to fill upwards x cups. Echo this setup for the opposite squad.
  3. Make up one's mind which team goes commencement: To make up one's mind this, take one histrion from each team shoot the ball while maintaining eye contact with their opponent throughout their shot. If both players miss or both players make it, their partners will throw adjacent. This goes on until one person makes information technology and their opponent does not. Once the starting team has been decided, the game tin can start.
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Beerpong Gameplay:

The team that is going first volition take both ping pong balls. Each person on i team volition take a turn trying to throw one ping pong brawl into the opponent's solo cups. When a ball is sunk, that team must remove the cup from the pyramid, beverage the beer, and gear up the cup aside. The ball is allowed to bounce, or it can go directly into the cup, just read beneath for details on house rules. The game goes on until i team has no cups left. The team with remaining cups wins the game.

House Rules for Beer Pong:

There are a lot of different rules that can be added to your game of Beer Pong. You are more than than likely going to learn a new rule every time y'all play. Here are some rules you should know near and so you don't look like a total Beer Pong newbie at your next firm party.

Elbows:

Elbows is usually an unspoken dominion… until someone breaks information technology. When shooting, your elbows must stay behind the edge of the tabular array. This means no reaching as far as you can over the table to try and sink your ball. If this rule is broken, the shot does not count.

Re-Formation:

During the game, each team can request of a re-germination of the opposing team'due south cups. Each team is allowed to practice this twice per game at the outset of their plow. Yous can not ask for a re-formation during "rollbacks" or during a "redemption circular".

Popular Re-Formations

Bounciness Shots & Swatting:

If your ball hits the table before going into a loving cup, then 2 cups are removed. The cup you sank, and another cup of the defender's choice. If there are only 2 cups left, the bounce shot will just remove the i cup. If a bounce shot is thrown, the defending team can swat the ball abroad before the ball hits a cup. Swatting is only immune on a bounce shot. If a thespian swats on a non-bounce shot, the other squad will get both balls back and shoot again.

Fingering & Blowing: (yep, you read that right)

If a ball is thrown and is spinning inside of the cup, the defenders tin either try to flick the brawl out with one finger. Instead of fingering the brawl out, you tin try to blow into the cup to get the ball out. Once the brawl has settled into the beer, fingering & blowing are non allowed.

Explosion:

Explosion is when both partners sink their ball into the aforementioned cup. All cups touching the loving cup that was sank, will as well be removed. A variation to this rule is that only iii cups are removed (the cup that was sunk, and 2 additional cups chosen by the defenders).

Rollbacks:

If y'all shoot, miss, and the ball rolls back towards you on the table y'all may grab the ball and re-shoot. This re-shot MUST be a flim-flam shot. Throw the brawl with your non-dominate hand, behind the dorsum, blindfolded, off the wall, blow information technology out of your mouth… Go creative!

Death Cup:

If a player on the opposing squad is notwithstanding drinking their beer from a previous circular, you can effort to throw the ball into their cup. They must be holding the cup in order for this shot to count. If you lot are successful, your team automatically wins the game of Beer Pong and the other team must potable all the beer left on the tabular array.

Redemption:

Subsequently the last loving cup is hit, each role player from the losing team gets redemption. This is their take chances to stay in the game. Each partner will get i shot to try and sink a cup. If they miss, it's game over. If a cup is sunk during redemption, their final cup comes back into play and the game continues. Each team gets but one redemption round.

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A Brief History Lesson – Who Invented Beer Pong?

Beer Pong is believed to have originated in the 1950s within the fraternities of Dartmouth College. Dorsum then, their version was more than like a traditional game of Ping Pong because they used paddles and a internet. Sometime in the 1980s in the The states, the game change to no paddles or cyberspace and the name Beer Pong was adopted.

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Variations of Beer Pong :

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