Best Drinking Games For Students

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Are you ready to host the BOSS of all parties?

Are your friends looking forward to a night of gaming, drinking and competing?

Do you want to turn your next lazy weekend with friends into a legendary RAGER no one will ever forget?

If you’re game for it, we’ve got some amazing drinking games for your party with a fun competitive edge. Wondering how to arrange them? That’s what we’re here for! In this article, we’re sharing about all those fun drinking games that you can host with a streak of competition to make it more exciting.

A lazy day with your friends, lots of drinks, silly gaming skills, misses and hits, winners and prizes – and you’ve got yourself a hit of a party. Read our list of 11 such amazing games and we promise your friends won’t forget this for a long time to come!

WHAT is a drinking game tournament?

A drinking game tournament is a mix of games involving drinking and playing. Players drink ridiculous amounts of alcohol while doing different crazy tasks. You can arrange these at your backyard, near the swimming pool or on a large terrace. As you can imagine, these types of tournaments have a way of getting CRAZYYYY… so, be prepared to drink at your event responsibly. Anyone above legal drinking age can participate.

11 Drinking Games For Competitions & Tournaments

Option #1. Beer Ball

Materials Needed:

  • 1 ping pong ball
  • Table
  • Beer

Setting up:

  • Two teams stand on opposite sides of the table.
  • Each player has minimum 2 full unopened beer cans in front.
  • One team holds the ball.

Rules:

  • 1 player throws the ball at the other team’s beer can.

Drink:

  • If the ball hits the opposing team’s can, drink till the opposing team’s player can pick up the ball and touch it to the table.

Players: Even numbers

Why it’s fun: Teams throw pong balls while being drunk!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Extra can is added.

Winner: Team finishing all beer cans first wins.

Scoring: 10 points for each winning round

Tie: Place a 30-rack in front of both teams. Team finishing first (or if the other team gives up) is the winner.

Overall winner: Player finishing maximum beer cans.

Option #2. BEER BONG/FUNNEL RACE

Materials Needed:

  • Beer bong
  • Double header funnel and tube beer bong
  • Quad beer bong with 4 ultimate valves
  • Bongzilla beer bong with 6 tubes
  • Beer and other

Setting up:

  • Fill beer bong valves with beer and other alcohol.
  • Drop down to one knee.

Rules:

  • One person starts countdown.

Drink:

  • One player picks a valve and keeps chugging till the countdown is over.

Players: Any

Why it’s fun: Perfect to learn the art of beer bonging.

Penalties for spilling drinks: Drink to the countdown all over again!

Winner: Team drinking most and walking in a straight line in the end wins.

Tie: Repeat!

Overall winner: Player drinking most and walking in a straight line in the end wins.

Option #3. BEER PONG

Materials Needed:

  • Disposable cups
  • Table
  • Ping pong balls
  • Beer

Setting up:

  • Divide cups and place on either side of the table.
  • Fill with beer.

Rules:

  • Throw a ball into the opposing team’s cup from one end of the table.
  • Take turns throwing balls in opponent’s cup.

Drink:

  • When the ball lands in the cup, defending team drinks the beer.

Players: Even numbers

Why it’s fun: Let’s you throw balls at each other!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Bottoms-up!

Winner: Game continues till one team throws the ball in all cups and gets all members of the other team drunk.

Tie: Repeat!

Scoring: 10 points for each ball thrown in cup

Overall winner: Player throwing most hits is overall winner.

Option #4. BEERSBEE

Materials Needed

  • 2 bottles
  • 2 poles
  • Frisbee
  • Beer 

Setting up:

  • Place poles 20 feet apart.
  • Place bottle on top.

Rules:

  • Throw Frisbee to knock off the bottle.

Drink:

  • When your team’s bottle falls and hits the ground.
  • When you hit the bottle but defending team catches it.

Players: Enough to form 2 teams

Why it’s fun: It’s a Frisbee drinking game!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Drink bottoms-up.

Winner: First team getting 7 points wins.

Tie: Player from each team does bottoms-up and tries to hit the can.

Scoring: 1 point when bottle falls and hits the ground. 1 point when you stop a bottle from hitting ground.

Overall winner: Player throwing off maximum cans.

Option #5. BOAT RACE

Materials Needed:

  • 16 oz. cup per player
  • Chair per player
  • Beer and other

Setting up:

  • Line up chairs in parallel rows.
  • Racers sit from first to last chairs holding drinks.
  • Players on last chairs are ‘anchors.’

Rules:

  • Drink only when previous team member has finished drinking.

Drink:

  • Judge shouts ‘Ready’- players on first chairs start drinking.
  • They finish drinking and place empty cup upside down on their heads.
  • Next set of players start drinking and so on.

Players: Enough to make 2 teams. 1 person as Judge.

Why it’s fun: Race to see which team drinks fastest!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Drink full cup.

Winner: Team finishing first.

Tie: Player from each team drinks to finish first.

Scoring: 1 point for each player finishing drink

Overall winner: Player who drank fastest

Option #6. CIVIL WAR

Materials Needed:

  • 40 plastic cups
  • Pong balls per player
  • 12 beers each round
  • Table
  • Beer

Setting up:

  • Teams stand on either side of the table.
  • Arrange cups in 3-2-1 triangle format for each member.
  • Fill alcohol.

Rules:

  • Toss balls in opponent’s cups.
  • Meanwhile other players keep throwing balls.
  • Don’t rest elbows or lean on table while shooting.
  • Bouncing shots don’t count.

Drink:

  • If ball lands in your cup.
  • If two balls land in two cups, drink both.
  • Finish your cup and throw (if the ball had landed in your cup).
  • If you accidentally block ball coming towards your cup.

Players: 6

Why it’s fun: Randomly shooting balls into the opposing team’s cups!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Fill cup and drink.

Winner: Team throwing maximum balls in cups.

Tie: 1 player from each team drinks full cup and tosses at opponent’s cup at the same time. Player landing ball in cup wins.

Scoring: 1 point each successful shot.

Overall winner: Player throwing maximum balls in cups

Option #7. DIZZY BAT

Materials Needed:

  • Whiffle ball bat
  • Beer

Setting up

  • Fill bat with beer.

Rules

  • Drink. Touch bat to the ground. Lean your forehead on handle.
  • Spin 10 times.
  • Wait 3 seconds.
  • Other team player throws ball or beer can.
  • Hit it.

Drink:

  • Player ready to bat drinks full bat of beer.
  • You miss hitting.
  • You fall down spinning.
  • Your throw gets hit

Players: Even number

Why it’s fun: Spinning when you’re drunk!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Drink full bat.

Winner: Player with most hits

Tie: Both players drink full bat of beer, spin and hit.

Scoring: 1 point each hit

Overall winner: Fastest spinner to hit.

Option #8. FLIP CUP

Materials Needed:

  • Solo cups
  • Flat surface
  • Beer

Setting up

  • Make teams.
  • Fill cups with beer.
  • Align cups in line on same side.
  • Place cups on edge directly in front.

Rules

  • Drink. Flip cup upside-down using finger.
  • After the first player is done, second player drinks and repeats.

Drink:

  • One player from each team drinks and places empty cup on the edge of table.

Players: Even number

Why it’s fun: Flipping cups when drunk!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Drink again!

Winner: Team flipping all cups first.

Tie: 1 player from each team drinks and flips.

Scoring: 1 point for each flipped cup.

Overall winner: Player finishing fastest

Option #9. ICE CUBE TRAY RELAY

Materials Needed:

  • 1 ice cube tray, straw per player
  • Beer

Setting up:

  • Fill ice tray with beer.

Rules:

  • Start sipping beer with straw from start to end of ice tray.

Drink:

  • Full row again on missing a slot

Players: Even number

Why it’s fun: Messy drinking!

Penalties for spilling drinks: Start row again

Winner: Player finishing first without leaving any

Tie: Start again

Scoring: 1 point for each row emptied

Overall winner: Player finishing fastest

Option #10. SHOTGUN RELAY

Materials Needed:

  • Shotgunning tool
  • This offer can of beer per player

Setting up:

  • Make a small hole on the side of beer can near the bottom.

Rules

  • Place mouth on hole.
  • Empty can as fast as possible.

Drink:

  • If another player finished drinking before you

Players: More than 1

Why it’s fun: Getting drunk as fast as possible

Penalties for spilling drinks: Start with another full can.

Winner: Player finishing fastest

Tie: Start again

Scoring: 1 point per finished can

Overall winner: Player finishing fastest with least cans

Option #11. SLAP CUP

Materials Needed:

  • Solo cups
  • Pong balls
  • Flat surface
  • Beer

Setting up

  • Fill cups with 1/3rd beer.
  • Place in centre.
  • Give 2 empty cups and a pong ball to 2 players standing opposite each other.

Rules

  • Bounce ball in the cup.
  • After the shot, pass cup and ball to the next player.
  • If you make a shot on first try, pass cup and ball to anyone.

Drink:

  • If you made a shot and person on your left is still trying, slap their cup away. Now they have to take a cup and drink.
  • Last person getting slapped

Players: More than 4

Why it’s fun: Individual competition to bounce balls

Penalties for spilling drinks: Drink a full cup

Winner: No winners

Fun prizes for competition winners

Give custom-made trophies announcing the winner of the drinking tournament, certificates giving bragging rights or a crate of more alcohol to carry on the boozy spirit!

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