21 (drinking Game) - Additional Rules

Additional Rules

Variations on the standard rules include:

• Prohibiting three players calling single numbers in a row.
• "Doubling a double" - prohibits saying two numbers after two numbers.
• "Tripling a triple" - prohibits either saying three numbers after three numbers, or after 2 sets of three numbers.
• "Reversing into a hole" - prohibits saying two numbers after three numbers.
• Prohibiting calling out a series of numbers that sum to 21 (e.g. "6, 7, 8" or "10, 11")

Examples of new rules that could be instated by a player forced to call 21:

• Swapping two numbers around (e.g. 3 and 13 are switched)
• Replacing a number with a humorous phrase (e.g. replacing 5 with "skin" - causing the sequence 1, 2, 3, "foreskin")
• Instating an underlying set of rules (e.g. left hand drinking)
• Thumb master - the last player to place their thumb on the table following the thumb master must drink.
• Head master - as with thumb master, but replacing the thumb with the head
• Pose master - the last player to strike a pose following the pose master must drink.

It is also commonplace to declare (either at the start of the game or as an additional rule) that the game be played according to the so-called "International Drinking Rules". These are a body of generally accepted but not entirely uniform rules that players understand to apply to all drinking activity and include rules for example, that drinkers must keep their little finger up whilst drinking, only drink with their left hand and, in some circles, that using the word 'drink' be prohibited and replaced with words such as 'consume' or 'imbibe'.