Dear friends, let’s make this happen in the very near future.
Jess: So it’s like 50 percent drinking game, 50 percent life-size Candyland.
Schmidt: It’s actually more like 75 drinking, 20 Candyland. And by the way, the floor is molten lava.
Winston: It’s actually 90 percent drinking, and then it’s got a loose Candyland-like structure to it.
Jess: But with stakes.What you’ll need: three to four cases of beer, bottle of hard liquor (the “Queen” or “King”), a sturdy table and a set of history questions (make them at least 5th grade level)
Objective: Reach the “Queen” or “King” first and empty the bottle.
Game: Arrange the cans of beer around a bottle of hard liquor. The cans are Pawns of the Secret Order, the liquor is the Queen or King, and the arrangement is called the Castle.
Decide on 4 Zones, and arrange platforms (chairs, buckets, anything) in patterns through them. The 5th Zone is the Zone with the castle. You must follow the chair path through the zones.
Arrange the Pawns of the Secret Order in a radial spoke pattern, directed away from the Queen, one spoke for each of the four zones.
The goal is to be the player to kill the last Pawn in a zone, allowing you to kill the Queen and become a True American.
Keep in mind…the floor is LAVA! You cannot touch the floor! A team member who touches the floor ‘dies’ and must start over by consuming a fresh beer (not from the Castle).
The dead member may be pelted with tennis balls, pillows, or other small less-than-lethal objects until they finish the beer.
Pick you teams: You can do team play or free for all play. If you choose free for all, chanting is then done in a set layer rotation. If you choose team play, only one person on your team has to reach the finish. Chanting in teams is done team rotation, with team members swapping the chant.
To choose teams, count down from 3, and on 0 raise your right hand to your forehead, displaying a number from 1 to 5. Anyone with the same number is on your team.
To decide who goes first, one member from every team must shotgun a beer. The first to finish it goes first.
Players must position themselves in random zones around the room far from the table.
To ‘advance’ along the game board:
A) An opposing team member asks the team in play a history question.
If they get it right, one team member must attempt to reach the Castle (without falling into Lava), capture a Pawn from the spoke corresponding to the zone they occupy, then return to their original spot, using furniture or anything other than the floor.
1) A player may only hold 2 captured Pawns at a time
2) A player holding 2 Pawns may not answer further questions until they kill a captured Pawn.
3) Upon killing a Pawn, the team member must advance one space (clockwise) toward the next zone. The team member may then answer further questions.
B) The opposing team may shout the names of two True American figures.
1) Players from both teams may then shout back a common feature, factoid, or tidbit about the two.
2) Any player able to give a commonality between the two figures may advance without killing a pawn.
C) Any player may chant “1, 2, 3, 4, 5!”
1) Players then raise their right hand to their forehead, displaying a number from 1 to 5. If your number is unique amongst the players, you may attempt to capture a Pawn.
B) Someone chants “1, 2, 3, 4 JFK”. Everyone else yells “FDR”, drinks, and gets off the floor.
1) REMEMBER - The floor is lava. Stepping into it causes you to lose. You can start at the beginning of the Zone you are in, or choose to sit out. If you choose to sit out, you start over from Zone 1 if you decide to rejoin.
Empty cans are all tossed to the same Zone. This is to keep the area somewhat clean. If someone throws a can into the wrong Zone, go back to the beginning of the Zone that player is in. You can use a bin as a target. Cans do NOT have to go in.
