As many of you do not know, my absolute favorite season is fall. I’m currently adjusting to the eventless fall in LA and miss the gorgeous colors of autumn back home. In true Midwestern fashion, one of the best ways to forget your troubles is alcohol with friends. So enjoy these fall themed binge promoters, and if you happen to wake up dressed as a clown at a truck stop, nudge me and wake me up too. I have work.
Possum
Believe it or not, this is a real game originating in New Zealand. Participants climb up a tree with a case of beer each and drink until they literally fall out of the tree. Not only is this game safe, it also involves becoming one with nature, mimicking wildlife, and enjoying the gorgeous fall foliage before plummeting to unconsciousness. Keep in mind it is fall themed because you literally fall…out of a tree…from intoxication.
It’s effing brilliant.
Scarecrow
The game is simple. Everyone at a party draws straws, picks from a hat, nominates their first-born, etc. The loser then becomes the scarecrow (or the loser scarecrow). A scarecrow is an inanimate object to everyone unless your name is Justin long. So to the party, whoever is the scarecrow is lifeless. Lifeless figures can’t drink, poor bastards…but be careful partygoers! Leave your drink unattended and the scarecrow is free to grab it, enjoy it, and pass the curse to you. Do a shot to represent the scarecrow venom taking over your human self and ALAS! You’re a sobering straw man! If only you had a brain…
Harvest Moon Boom
Fill a circle of party cups up with Harvest moon and gather around the table. Use ping-pong balls to bounce into one of two empty cups with the goal of catching the shooter in front of you around the table. This is quite similar to speed quarters or “Slap cup.” for all you college kids. When one player does catch up to the other, they slam their cup into the player next to them still shooting and everyone then yells BOOM! Then they drink a cup from the center moon and the race continues on clockwise. This is a great for a group because it will get loud, it will get messy, and that’s what harvesting is all about, unless you’re harvesting humans of course.
Booze ‘n Cider
The name speaks for itself. Punny, right? Line up dozens of shot glasses on a table. Next, fill half with apple cider. NOW fill the other half with a variety of dark alcohols that look the same (sweet tea vodka, rum, whiskey, pine sol, apple pie) Just be creative! Now play any card game you want and when you lose, pick a shot and be surprised! It’s basically a sticky, misleading minefield right? Where do I come up with such mayhem? I blame The Big Comfy Couch.
Apple-Picking
Who hasn’t been dragged out on a Sunday morning to go apple picking with “family friends” you see once a year? Awful right? Add alcohol! Line up cards in a pyramid shape similar to the top of a tree. (Okay a pine tree, gimme a frickin’ break here) Now you and the other players each take a turn picking any card from the “tree.” If it’s red like an apple, you won’t starve, and as a result you become generous. Hand out the amount of drinks equal to the number on the card in any way you’d like. If you choose a black card, your apple picking skills are lacking and you are going to starve. Better chug that alcohol yourself! Drink one second for every numerical value on the card. When you’re buzzed go out and do some real apple picking! Bring beer and you can play Possum too!
For the record I do not condone any of these ideas. Please be safe, have fun, and please please please DO NOT try possum in anything larger than a crabapple tree. Or do…What do I know, I’m probably not your dad…
