Kaput Machen

Name: Kaput Machen
Date Collected: 05/25/2019
Origin: Germany (also popular in the Netherlands and Austria)
Rules: (Transcript from a video that was too large to upload) In this German game called Kaput Machen which in German means to damage or break down. You need a dice and 6 cups. Each cup gets assigned a number. You roll a dice and lets say that you get a 5. What you are going to do is that you will fill in all the cups except for 5. You will all the cups with alcohol except for 5. The next person throws a dice and lets say they get 2. Then the person drinks the cup number 2. Then the next person throws and lets say they will throw 2. They refill the cup with number 2.

If the formation is as initially described and only one cup is empty (cup number 5) and a person rolling a dice gets number 5, he/she is kaput. They have to refill the cup with number 5 and drink all of the 6 cups. Then the person who drank everything rolls the dice again. Lets say they throw number 2. Again, you will fill all the cups with alcohol except for number 2. The game continues as described.

Informant’s name: Ronald Klacman

Informant’s comments: This is a very fun and social game that I have played multiple times in Germany. People use it to socialize because it is not competitive at all and it is very low key.

Collector’s name: Matus Petrovsky

Collector’s comments: This game fits the category of casual overconsumption drinking games as well as games that are played with miscellaneous items such as coins and dice. In this game, the game depends entirely on chance. Skill is not a factor because you cannot influence the outcome of a roll of a dice because each roll is an independent event. Hence, the game is really fun and not stressful at all because you have no control. In this sense, it makes for an ideal casual drinking game. On the flipside, the overconsumption aspect shall you get the “kaput machen” call and drink all the cups makes it also costly shall you be unlucky.

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