Yeah, Canada day is here, another long weekend is ahead of us and we couldn’t be more pumped. While we’re Celebrating this grand old Dame we call Canada’s 150th birthday, we’re also celebrating the long weekend, and for that you need alcohol. Lots of it!
So while you’re at your buddy’s backyard, cottage, the beach or wherever, you’re gonna need drinking games. Of course you’ve got the standard ones, but in case you’re super awesome at beer pong and you’ve already gone through our last list of awesome drinking games to play on a Canadian long weekend, and you want a new challenge, we’ve got some new ones for ya.
That said, you can also check out our list from Victoria Day HERE, if you didn’t have a chance to play them in May.
Happy Canada Day you guys.. go Give’r.
Stump
This one is also known as “Hammerschlagen,” it’s a game that originated in Germany, and is now a staple in backyards, fairs and campgrounds all over North America.
The rules vary depending on where you’re playing, but essentially you pound nails into a stump. You start with a beer in one hand and a hammer in the other. You need to flip the hammer and as you catch it you need to hit a nail cleanly. If you miss, you drink, if you bend the nail, you drink, if you do it right, everyone else drinks. First person to get their nail hammered in, wins.
Another variation of the game is to go after another persons nail and the winner is the one with their nail least hammered in, but of course, you can always make up your own rules, because tools and beer go so well together.
Frisbeer
I’ve heard this one also called ‘Beerbee’ down under and that sounds too much like Barbie; so Frisbeer it is. Essentially you need 2-4 poles that can support a beer on top. You install them across from each other, a good distance away. You can do a single pole on each end for solo play, or 2 on each end for a team endeavour. Fling the frisbee, knock off the beer (can or bottle, your choice but be safe on where that beer shall fall), and the other person/team has to chug it.
Repeat until you’re drunk enough to think the Leafs will win a cup.
Molson Poker
All the players sit around a table with either a beer, or spirit. In the center of the table a shot glass is placed. Around the shot glass you place (face up) one 2, one 6, one 8, two 9’s, two queens, and two 10’s. the remainder of the deck is distributed amongst the players.
Each player takes turns (clockwise) drawing one card from their deck. If the card is not already on the table (example, an ace) they discard the card and say pass. The next person then draws their card, if the card is a 6, they drink one shot bcause there is one six already on the table, if they draw a 9 they take 2 shots because there are 2 9’s on the table.
Sound pretty simple, but you can complicate it with your own rules, whether they need to take the shot a certain way, or use certain phrases.
If you mess up, each mistake earns you one extra shot, and everyone can chirp you as your taking your shot.
Starts off tame, but can get really sloppy, really fast.
Most Likely
This one is fun with either a group of people you know, or you don’t know. Some one starts and asks the group “Who’s most likely to…” and then everyone points to the person they think, on the count of three.
You need to drink for every person pointing at you. So if you’re playing with 10 people and 9 of them are pointing at you, that’s 9 shots/sips/gulps.
Straight Face
This one is pretty basic and stupidly fun. You grab a hat and some paper and you write the funniest, dirtiest, most random shit down on paper, then you go around in a circle and you have to read it with a straight face.
Crack a smile and you’re cracking your beer open. If you can’t stifle a giggle, then you’re gonna get shitfaced really quickly and it’s all downhill (or uphill, depending on if you’re a glass full kinda person) from there.
I’m going to the Bar
Remember going to camp and playing all those get-to-know-you-games. This is like that. One person starts and says “I’m going to the bar and I’m going to get a beer.” The next person has to repeat that and add a second drink. You keep going around in a circle until someone messes up.
Then they drink. Bonus points if you keep the drink list limited to what you have on hand, so that, when someone messes up they have to consume those drinks (chug a beer, shot of rum, sip of a mojito, some tequila…)
Drunken Artists
This is like those good, old-fashioned games of dictionary or Win, Lose or Draw. What you need is a large pad of paper or easel, an artist, and a timer. The artist has to draw a word as a picture and everyone has to guess. When they finally get it right, the timer reels off the time it took for everyone to guess. The artist then has to take a drink for every 20 seconds it took to guess.
So if it took them 1min, 40 seconds, that’s 5 gulps. If they can’t guess it, the artist takes a shot, or chugs the rest of their beer.
Again, can be dirty, can be nice, but it’s 100% awesome. Just don’t say sorry too often.
True or False Storytime
This one starts off with a whole bunch of nouns written on slips of paper and put into a bag. Then you take a dice and you roll it, so that no one sees it. If you get an even number, you tell a true story with a noun that you pick from the bag; an odd number means a fake story.
For eg: if the word is mosquito and you rolled an even number, you can talk about the time you were watering the trees beside the campsite and a mosquito bit your junk. An odd roll, is that you were making out with a supermodel and she was all over you like a mosquito (I don’t know, I’m not much a storyteller).
Everyone listens to your story and guesses if it’s true or false. If they’re wrong, “they” drink; if they’re right, “you” drink (one gulp for every person who guesses correctly).
Slip it in
You can do this over a course of an evening or the entire weekend, but before the game starts, you need to brainstorm a phrase that needs to be slipped into casual conversation.
It can be dirty, funny or completely mundane, like “I really get randy watching Trudeau do one armed pushups.” The point of the game is to try to slip it into random conversations and see if anyone notices.
If 5 minutes go by and no one says anything, they all have to drink. If you get caught, you have to drink.
This one can be pretty funny, the more you have to drink.
Revolving Ping Pong
Everyone revolves around a Ping-Pong table taking turns serving the ball. One person serves it, then quickly passes their paddle off to the person beside them (so they’re ready to go when the ball comes back over). They also do this on the other side of the table. In a perfect world, this chain of serving would go on and on, but in reality… a lot of people are going to screw it up.
Miss a serve, take a shot. Just don’t dance on the table; it’s not sturdy enough.
If you Know what I mean?
This one is based off of an old ‘Who’s Line is it Anyways’ sketch, but it’s pretty funny. Two people are given a scene or situation (for instance, “you’re at a restaurant”) and they go back and forth trading remarks ending with the phrase “if you know what I mean.” Whoever runs out of vaguely sexual-sounding phrases first has to drink.
You can watch the tame version of that game HERE!
It’s got Micheal Scott written all over it.
Medusa
Everyone plays this game standing in a circle or sitting around a round table. Then you cover the centre of the table with shots. You start with your head down and eyes closed and on the count of three you raise your head and look directly at someone.
If you’re looking at someone who’s not looking at you, you’re safe. But if you lock eyes, you have to yell “Medusa” first, and they have to drink. It’s a good way to break the ice with someone you’ve been staring at all night, if you know what I mean?
Concoctions
This one can get a little random and gross. You need some dice for this one, and each person rolls it. If you roll a 4 (or whatever number you collectively choose), your buddies have to concoct a snack for your. It can be a Cool Ranch Dorito, topped with Vanilla frosting, pickled jalepeno’s and an M&M. If you eat it, they drink. If you refuse, you do.
Great way to use up all those snacks and see who can last the longest.
Cup Swap
Everyone starts with two cups (one full of your drink of choice), and a spoon. When you start the timer, you have one minute to transfer the liquid from one cup to the next. When the time is up you have to drink what’s left in the original cup.
You can do this one as a relay, race your buds or even swap cups each round so that you may need to drink a different spirit, and you know what they say about mixing.
Canada Day Olympics
You can also set up some or all of these events into a full day, team-sporting event for bragging rights or something… (dunno… pick your prize). Throw in the usual stuff like beer pong, dizzy bat races and even recycle some of the ideas from our Victoria Day post, and then throw in some of the new games.
Crush your Canada Day weekend, and come back to the office in time to celebrate the 4th of July with an epic hangover.
Happy Birthday Canada!
