

Who knows?Īnyway, the first round is pretty simple. Not to complicate things further, but we've also heard it referred to as 'The Four Card Game'. In fact, according to Wikipedia, it's known as 'Irish Poker', 'Chico High Low', 'Monkey Balls', 'Foam Game', 'North Carolina', 'Up and Down the River', 'Cannon Ball', 'Charleston Special', 'Buja', 'Death Valley' or 'Unlucky Sevens'. This game has a million different names and variations. Just try not to ruin too many friendships while you're at it. If you're clever with your questions you can make this really funny and potentially quite controversial too. But if they both think the other is the messiest (or both consider themselves to be the messiest), their answers don't match and they have to drink. So, for example, if Georgina thinks she's the messiest and her friend Claire also thinks Georgina is the messiest, they're fine. If they think it's the other person, they put their glass towards the floor. If the person thinks it's them, they raise their glass in the air.
#TEN THUMBS GAME SERIES#
You then ask them a series of questions such as "Which of you is the messiest?" and "Which of you is the biggest lightweight?". Take your first pair of people and sit them back to back. It's a game that works best in small groups of people who know each other quite well (or where everyone has at least one person they know well) – it's perfect for playing with housemates. You might have seen Mr and Mrs played at weddings, but it actually works pretty well as a drinking game too. The aim of the game is to get rid of all your cards first. The last person to do so has to drink, and take all the cards from the pile in the middle.

Everyone must shout "snap" and place (or violently slam in most cases) their hand on top of the pile of cards in the middle of the table. The snap bit comes in when the number you say out loud matches the number on the card you put down. So the first person to play their card says "Ace", the second says "two", the third says "three" and so on. When you place down your card, you have to say a value as you do so, starting with Ace and going all the way up to King before starting again. Take it in turns to go round the circle placing a card in the centre of the table, only turning it upright as you put it down. It's also best to try and clear the area as much as possible, keeping drinks on the floor, and removing any hand jewellery such as rings (you'll see why soon).ĭish out all the cards so everyone has an even amount (put any spares to the side) – but don't look at your cards! Keep them face down in your hand or on the table in front of you. Make sure everyone is sat around a table and is able to reach the centre. You need to stick to a small group of people for Irish Snap because, believe us, things can get violent. It's called Friends and Enemies for a reason.

If someone has been chosen to drink for seven seconds, you don't have to save them with a seven if you don't want to. You have to wait and hope someone else saves you instead.
#TEN THUMBS GAME HOW TO#
These are the best drinking games with the rules of how to play them:
