Name: Minca (Coin)
Informant: Peter Secansky

Origin: Slovakia
Date collected: 05/24/2019
Rules:

In this game, the players sit around a table. One coin (usually a larger one like 1 or 2 Euro coin) will be passed around. Each player has a shot or a beer in front of them. When a person’s turn comes, they must place the coin into the palm of their weak hand, toss the coin in the air, flip their hand, let the coin land on the upper part of their hand without falling. Then they must place the coin in between two of their fingers by moving their hand and letting the coin slide. They must not use their other hand to help them. Then once they have a coin in between their fingers, they must make the fist and bang twice on the table. If they succeed they pass the coin to their right. If, during this process, the coin falls on the table, they must drink their beer or take a shot and place their fist on the table with knuckles pushed against the table. Then each person shoots the coin into their knuckles.

Informant’s comments: This is a very fun game to play once you already had a couple drinks. The more you drink, the easier it is to drop the coin. The game gets pretty competitive but there is not a clear winner. The loser is the one who drops out first.

Collector’s name: Matus Petrovsky

Collector’s comments: This game fits the casual category of games played with miscellaneous items. The game is a version of American game Bloody Knuckles. I personally find this game a lot more sophisticated though and this game has a higher potential to help participants to socialize.

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.

1. Never Have I Ever
Origin: California
Date collected: 05/28/2019
Rules:
One game we play at home is “Never have I ever”. One person says the phrase and then they add a line after that. If you have done it then you must sip from your drink. You get to know people a lot better while playing this game. Everyone basically has 5 points to lose, which is represented by holding up 5 fingers at the beginning of the game. Every time they agree they have done the thing that the person saying the statement mentions, they lose one point. The game keeps going until everyone is out.

Informant’s comments: This game is very useful as an ice-breaker and it really helps you get to know your friends better or just to get to know someone who you do not know really well.

Collector’s name: Matúš Petrovsky

Collector’s comments: This game fits into the word game category. IT is very different than other word games we have encountered and gives a lot of power to the person who is saying the phrase. These games function very well as ice-breakers and represent a form of open-communication which I believe is healthy for a community. The phrases tend to be funny and sometimes provocative or sexual. In this way, you create a safer space for people to express themselves with humor and alcohol while getting to know each other better.

1. Bloody Knuckles
Origin: Maryland
Date collected: 05/28/2019
Rules:
Basically, you take a quarter and you spin it around. Whoever the quarter lands closest to gets to flick it at the other person’s knuckles who puts their fist down on the table. You flick it back and forth at each other until one of the players gives up and then whoever gives up first has to drink. I learned this in high school from my older brother.

Informant’s comments: This is a very fun game that is often played at house parties. Usually, I would almost always play this game with my guy friends when we were bored of regular drinking games such as flip cup, slap cup, Beirut, and pong.

Collector’s comments: This niche game fits our competitive game category very well as well as a category of using miscellaneous items to play the drinking game. There are a bunch of games that involve coins. This same game has a different version in Slovakia.

1. Flong
Origin: Connecticut
Date collected: 06/01/2019
Rules:
My dirnking game from home is Flong and I picked this one up over by the ocean coming to Rhode Island. In Flong you have 4 people and you set up in each corner of a table and you set the cup into a diamond. Your teammate is diagonally across from you. Your opponent is next to you. You throw the ball into the cup of your partner. IF you make it, then they slide the cup over to the opposing team’s player who is next to them and they have to drink it and flip it successfully before they can resume throwing. Whoever gets rid of their cups first wins the game. This game is not as popular but it is more of a mix it up kind of game. Beirut is a little bit more nuanced Beirut in case you get bored of regular drinking games.

Informant: Gunnar Smith, Dartmouth ‘20

Informant’s comments: This game is a great way to spice it up if you get bored of regular drinking games. The nature of the game is competitive and the fun part is that your opponents are right next to you while your partner is positioned diagonally from you. This game is great for socializing because the aspect of passing your cup to your opponent to drink is sort of provocative and adds to the competitive nature of the game.

Collector’s name: Matúš Petrovsky, Dartmouth ‘19

Collector’s comments:This game fits our description of a ball game and falls within the category of Beirut and and beer pong. The game appears to be much more American in comparison to Pi Pi and Pin Pan Pon. The competitive nature of the game and unique distribution of players at the table makes this game a very exciting example of how drinking games are used to break the ice in socializing.