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Peng -

Since I am planning to throw my birthday party, my friend and I decided to get Sushi platter,
Sake, and etc. I want to try out some Chinese Drinking Games.

After I googled "Chinese Drinking Games" or "Jiuling" up, I only understand finger-guessing and
dice game. Animal betting is bit confused (need help here?). I maybe can try this Chinese-Japanese
drinking game.

I didn't go look up 酒令 because I am so awful at reading Chinese...

Anyone know different Jiuling?



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skylee -

Consider these -> http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/...nt_8849893.htm

I particularly like "the little bees" - 兩隻小蜜蜂呀，飛在花叢中呀

PS - you can also consider a simplier version of the finger game which is called "15 20". Take a
look -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDLI_bojxfI










gougou -

I've seen the finger-guessing game on several occasions, albeit using two hands and guessing
multiples of five (it seems the Chinese genetic structure has become more accommodating to alcohol
over the ages?).

Never heard of the animal betting game, but it seems to be just a variation of rock paper scissors
(or vice versa).

There is another dice game, which seems to me to be the most common drinking game. Every player
gets 5 dice, which he rolls once at the beginning of the game. Every player only looks at their
own dice, then they have to guess how many of a certain number there are, e.g. four 5's, or five
6's. The next player has to increase the bet (either guessing the same amount of a bigger number,
or guessing a larger amount of any number), or open the previous players cup if he does not
believe his guess. 1's are jokers, they count for all other numbers, too - unless somebody has
guessed the amount of 1's already. I have encountered two different regulations concerning the
situation when all five dice are different: in one, you roll again, in the other, you play as if
you had none of any number.

A fourth game I saw for the first time this weekend is about two bees flying into the bush.
Because I wasn't very good at it, I don't recall how exactly it went...










necroflux -

I just played some drinking games in Taipei last night, let me see if I can drudge up any memories
of how the hell they worked.. haha.

The one we played the most goes like this: Initially you play rock paper scissors at the beginning
of each round to determine who goes first (this is only a two person game). Then for each round
you either have two closed fists (沒有 or mei2you3), one open hand (五 wu3), or two open hands
(十 shi2). The object is to guess how many fingers are out in total between two people. So the
number can be 0, 5, 10, 15 (shi2 wu3), or 20 (er4 shi2). Both people start with two closed fists
(0). The person who won the rock paper scissors guesses first and at the same time they speak both
people make their "move" (opening fists or leaving them closed). You have to guess twice in a row
to win. If you guess incorrectly, it's the other person's move.

The other game I played was with a group of people. Each person either holds out 5 fingers or
none. You go around the circle and each person guesses how many total fingers are out (again,
everyone either opens or closes their hand at the same time the person speaks). If the person
guesses right, everyone who had their hands open for that round has to drink! (obviously you could
cheat and never open your hand, but that's no fun, right?)

There were a couple more but they'd be hard to explain without being in person. These are pretty
damn fun already though.










gougou -



Quote:

If the person guesses right, everyone who had their hands open for that round has to drink!
(obviously you could cheat and never open your hand, but that's no fun, right?)

Right, this one I played before, too. (how strange that I should forget...) However, we there was
no possibility to avoid drinking, if somebody guessed right the person before him would have to
drink.










gougou -

Experienced two new ones yesterday. The first one was the Chinese version of spin-the-bottle, I
guess: one person would hold a paper napkin in his mouth. The next person would rip off a piece of
that napkin (of course just using her mouth, too). The piece getting smaller and smaller, there
will come a point where a person has no possibility to rip off another piece (or where the person
holding the napkin will panic and let go of the whole napkin in order to avoid their lips actually
touching...). Either way, who ends up without a piece of paper in their mouth has to drink.

The second one, we played with five people, and you'd take turns ordering people to drink by
finding exactly two people that shared a certain attribute. For example, the two people wearing a
wristwatch must drink. Or, the two youngest must drink. Mostly, people of course would choose
attributes were they knew the results beforehand, but when you end up calling on two people and
only one person, or more than two, had the attributes asked for, you'd have to drink yourself.

In fact, there was a third one, but I don't get it together any more. It started with some lines
of text that you would repeat every round, something like
"今天晚上很高兴，又一次玩。。。“ Forgot the rest. Would anybody happen to know
that?










necroflux -

Haha sounds like someone lost the first two games a few too many times?










jak__ -

If you really want to get serious about it there's a book by Ma Guojun 麻国钧 called
中国酒令大观 that has just about every Jiuling there is in it (like 400 pages worth). I'm
not sure if it's still in print, but its worth checking out！










simonlaing -

Have you ever heard of drinking games, where people can choose to take off clothing rather than
drink? I heard some people playing the dice game with this method. Then I read an article online
about a Madame in HK who through house parties for pop stars and millionaires to meet each other.
They play strip poker type games, and have a password to get in.
The article didn't really have much corroborating evidence other than the person's word of mouth
but it sounded interesting.

Has anyone heard of this? Skylee you're from Hong Kong Right?

Have fun,
Simon










mr.stinky -

not exactly a game, but....

gather six or eight people around a table, in the center is a large bowl (the bigger, the better)
or pot. dump in 3-4 bottles of beer (or beijiu for the very brave). using a soup ladle, go
around the circle, each person feeding a ladle of beer to the person on their right.
lather, rinse, repeat.












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