Winter (drinking) Games

Let the games begin! Every winter season, a sizable group of my friends collect in the San Bernardino mountains for some harmless debauchery, frivolity, and well deserved chillindamos. Over the years, we've sustained a number of inebriated adventures and games, developing a repertoire of winter events that require intense training and sophisticated equipment.
I'll start with homebrew since athletes must be fueled. 30 Gallons of homebrew arrived in Big Bear along with some other guest intoxicants. These beers were brewed during the epic 8 batch weekend in November. Among the beers brought, the Blueberry Wheat was rapidly consumed and with its hidden ABV of 6.8%, certainly gave us the sustained energy that no 'power drink' could ever provide. Andrew, above, enthusiastically topped his Blueberry Wheat with fresh blueberries (because anti-oxidants are important too).
Beer doesn't always travel well in bulk but thankfully my brother-in-law Tom hooked me up with a mini-keg of Faultline Brewing's Pale Ale. After being snow-chilled, we took out the mini-keg for some inebriated sledding. Above is Dave pouring a Faultline pint (not far from the San Andreas fault too). Minutes later, Dave was surfing a toboggan at record speeds.
Michelle showed intense athleticism, donning two sleds to break speed records. Just look at that smile, obviously chillindamos!
After a day of competition speed sledding, we resorted back to life, The Game of Life. We find this circa 1960's LIFE to be a far stretch from our reality so a number of squares have been modified to make this another gem of our winter games. Where's the skill, you ask? Well, every "Car Crash" demands a social. Do you know how hard it is to keep those little blue and pink pegs in those tiny plastic cars? With homebrew involved and the social interaction of cash stealing, tipsy spinning, trash talking, and child auctioning, the car crash is imminent at every bend in the road of LIFE.
The culmination of our Winter Games ended with a legendary game of Sloshball. The game is centered around casual baseball rules. About thirty inebriated athletes took the field where the main rule is to 1. have a beer in hand at all times.
If you've never played Sloshball before, here's the rest of the rules. 2. There's a keg on second base. While most find the yellow fizzy variety sufficient, we upped the quality to something more local, Bayhawk Brewing's Blonde. The fact is that more beer is spilled than is consumed so you must plan accordingly. VERY IMPORTANT: don't use or spill homebrew, that is bad!
Above is homebrewer and wine maker, Dave (Comrade from brewcommune), "warming up" before the big game. 3. All runners must stop at second base, finish their beer, and refill before proceeding to third base. 4. It does not matter how many team members are on second base but if no one can bat, your team gets an automatic third out.
Beware of seasoned veterans like Wesley (above) that can readily advance to second base and pound a brew in a moments notice.
Michelle's also dangerous with insane sloshball skills that one can only acquire from UCSB (in our book, U Can Study Buzzed).
Most athletes seem to be very focused and intense but as you can see from me batting above, Sloshball is above all, chillindamos!

Image Source: De Coubertin, Pierre, and Pumbaa80. The Symbol of the Olympic Games. Digital image. Winter Olympic Games. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 28 Jan. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Olympic_Games.

Smoke or Fire!?

At an awesome restaurant and look what's going down! Playing our favorite drinking game, Smoke or Fire. Sent from my mobile phone.

Smoke or Fire Drinking Game

So here's the basics: shuffle and deal to each person asking the round question:
1st Card/Round (worth one drink - you guess it and give out a drink or if you're wrong, take a drink): Smoke or Fire (Black or Red)? The card goes to the player face up.
Proceed to all players.
2nd Card/Round (worth two drinks, if guessed correctly you give out two drinks or you take two drinks if wrong): Higher or Lower? This is relevant to the first card dealt. If the card is the same, the player drinks double (4 drinks).
3rd Card/Round (worth 3 drinks): Inside or out? This is related to the first two showing cards. If the card dealt duplicates a showing card, the player doubles (6 drinks).
4th Card/Round: Choose your suit? This is unrelated to any other cards showing and is worth 4 drinks.
Next, cards are flipped by each player. It would be a good idea if you try to remember some of the cards out there. The dealer makes a five level pyramid then proceeds to deal out the remainder cards until everyone has an equal number of cards. If any excess cards, add them to the pyramid.
The pyramid is basically a round of bullshit. The base row is worth 1 drink, second row worth 2 drinks, etc. The dealer flips a card starting at the bottom row. If you tell another player to drink one, you are basically telling that player you have that particular card. Of course, you can lie. If they catch your lie and call bullshit, you drink double. If they call bullshit and you were true to your word, show your card and they drink double.
Let's say you're on the second row and you have two cards of the one in show. Well, since each of those cards is worth 2 drinks, you can give out 4 drinks.
Happy Drinking Games!