I’m gonna let you in on a little secret: drinking games don’t have to be reliant upon a pack of cards. Neither do they have to involve standing around a wonky table covered in red plastic solo cups and a sticky assortment of spilt drinks. Call us boring, but we’re not about the mess, nor the clean up the next day.
We are about those chill movie nights though. Let's bring those back please because, in all honesty, the weather isn’t improving any time soon so no one wants to go ‘out out’ right now. Also, our beer pong arms just aren’t what they used to be and we’ve all exhausted ‘Never Have I Ever’so much that know way more than we want to about our friends’ sex lives. So it’s time to whack on a good film and let the good times roll, as they say.
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Movie drinking games are the happy medium between 'chill night' and 'boozy night' that you've been looking for. Everyone's happy, everyone gets to drink as much (or as little, we guess) as they want to, and no one is required to get up from their seats. Just make sure bottles and popcorn are within reach before you hit play.
Mean Girls Drinking Game
If ever there was a film crying out to be drank along to it's *Mean Girls. *And for all the right reasons. Everyone knows it well enough to quote and it's funny enough to keep the gang invested in what's going on. Attention is key in drinking games, my friends, and Mean Girls is a great place to start.
The rules are simple. Drink once when:
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Someone says 'fetch'
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Someone pronounces Cady incorrectly
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Arron says something stupid
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Tina Fey is sarcastic
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Someone mentions Africa
Drink twice when:
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Someone breaks one of the Plastic rules (i.e doesn't wear pink on Wednesday)
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Janice crosses off a task from the Destroy Regina George And Her Army Of Skanks chalk board
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Gretchen is irrationally upset about something
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Someone gets hit by a bus
Harry Potter Drinking Game
There are about as many Harry Potter drinking games out there as there are pages in Hogwarts: A History (to translate for the muggles, that's a lot). So we've condensed some of the best rules on the internet to bring you a more straight forward way to play and get to the end of the film in one piece. Works for all eight installments.
**Drink once when: **
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Hermione raises her hand in class
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Hagrid says something he shouldn't have
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Ron says 'bloody hell, blimey or merlin's beard'
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Malfoy name drops his dad
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Harry breaks a school rule
**Drink twice when: **
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Harry touches his scar
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Someone says Voldemort instead of 'He Who Must Not Be Named'
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Dumbledore drops a plot-twisting truth bomb
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Points are taken from Gryfinndor
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Someone uses an unforgivable curse
Forrest Gump Drinking Game
Full disclaimer: I don't really think that life is like a box of chocolates at all, but there's no denying that Forrest Gump is a wonderful film that we keep going back to (read: still have on DVD). It's an emotional one, that's for sure. So, who's to say that drinking through it will help or hinder the experience...
**Drink once when: **
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Forrest is sitting on a bench
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Someone tells Forrest to run
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Forrest meets someone famous
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Someone is mean to Forrest
Drink twice when:
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Forrest runs all on his own
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Lieutenant Dan has something positive to say
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Forrest is nice to someone who's treated him awfully
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Alabama is the subject of conversation
Disney Movie Drinking Game
This entry purely comes to save the many friends who, much like mine, have been recruited to unwillingly re-watch The Lion King, Hercules, Mulan, The Jungle Book, and so on. Now you have something to do while we sing along and live our best Disney Princess lives.
Drink once when:
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Someone sings about brewing emotional turmoil
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A family member dies
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The trusty sidekick makes a funny
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Someone uses magic
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Cheesy slapstick violence ensues
Drink twice when:
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Another Disney film is referenced
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The bad guy comes makes a comeback after being seemingly defeated
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Someone falls in love
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The main character fails or loses a battle
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There's an innuendo probably too inappropriate for the age at which we all first watched these
Coyote Ugly Drinking Game
Bet you didn't see this one coming, did ya? Well so much of this gem of a film takes place in a bar so it only makes sense. Guaranteed you'll all be up and singing along to Can't Fight The Moonlight. If you don't, you've failed the game.
**Drink once when: **
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Someone climbs on a table
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Violet let's a friend or family member down
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You spot someone wearing a cowboy hat
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Violet's demo gets rejected
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Violet calls her dad
**Drink twice when: **
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Lil shows Violet some sympathy
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The Coyotes perform a routine
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Kevin is working his real job
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Anyone chants 'hell no, H20'
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The Debrief - Drinking Game Apps
1 of 7Drink or Doom
Sounds ominous, I know. But never fear, it's not that scary. It's set up like a comic book and basically involves completing various challenges. They can be a bit risqué, to say the least so you'll want to play this one with people you trust not to broadcast the whole thing on Instagram stories. Android / iOS
2 of 7Drink & Tell
Three guesses what the premise of this game is? Nope, you won't get it. You chose from six categories – love, sex, life & death, personality, ethics and user generated', and then you'll be presented with a question with multiple answers that you have to read out to the group before you make your choice. Then everyone else has to guess how you answered and whoever gets it wrong has to drink. It's quite the test of friendship, really.Android / iOS
3 of 7Bomba Drink
Did you ever play pass the bomb at school? That high pressure, think on your feet and pretend and inanimate object is about to explode game? This is like that. You can play Classic mode which is the PG, punishment-free version, or Happy/Party modes which involve taking a drink if you lose.Android / iOS
4 of 7Picolo
This is right up there as one of the best, hassle free drinking game apps. All you have to do is input the names of the people playing and you're off. As the phone is passed from player to player you'll each be given an instruction. It can be anything from 'Player 1 has to drink every time Player 2 drinks' and 'Player 3 must speak in an Irish accent' to 'The first person to text a family member can give out 2 sips' and 'Name songs by Beyoncé, first person to repeat themselves or can't think of anything drinks 2 times'. Android / iOS
5 of 7Kings
I'm of the personal belief that this game is a bad idea for everyone involved. Mainly because I played it once back in 2011 and to this day have no idea what happened afterwards. But if you keep the drinking to sensible proportions (like always, obvs) then maybe you'll come out of it better than I did. Here's your card-free version of Ring of Fire. Android
6 of 7Game of Shots
If it's variation you want, Game of Shots carries a whole load of different drinking games in the one app. There's everything from (digital) card and dice games to classics like 'Truth or Dare' that you don't have to bother coming up with ideas for. There's also a little indicator of how boozy each game is out of six depending on what you want the vibe of the night to be. Android
7 of 7Seven Drinking Party
Another card game of sorts for ya. Choose between 'Original', 'Hardcore' and 'Ultimate' (guides to the required levels of consumption) game modes and be taken on a journey. There's 420 illustrated cards that'll give you various instructions. They range from standard 'player with the fullest glass drink' to 'tell us about one of your favourite books'. Android / iOS
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.