Monopoly

The game and all of it’s pieces are used as normal. This ones a slow starter but pics up hard at the end.

Altered Rules:

• Pass Go – Choose someone to drink

• Community Chest and Chance – Do what it says. If you pay, you drink, if someone pays you they pay and drink

• Go to Jail – Drink for every turn you’re in jail

• Paying Rent – When you land on someone’s property, either buy it or drink. For every house take another drink, for every hotel, take 4 extra drinks, and then pay.

• Free Parking – Collect your dough, and everyone else drinks.

• Land on Tennessee, shoot Jack Daniels (if you have it)

The beauty of Monopoly as a drinking game is it comes in so many versions there’s a version for every party. After a while you’ll get bored of watching Beer Pong and you’ll need to create some fun. Everyone knows the basic rules, explain the new fun ones and off you go.

Help me out, what rules would you add?

After reading Lifehacker’s piece on stocking your bar for $100, I figured I’d put in my two cents; except with a more specific goal. The focus of this list is a college party, nothing too large, 20-25 people. College parties are about a couple of things, getting drunk (hopefully you aren’t driving) and having fun. Usually these two go hand in hand. Variety of alcohol at a college party isn’t very important, quality isn’t even that important. You don’t want to drink the best (you’re broke college students) but you don’t want to drink the worst (you’re smart enough to get into college).

*Note: Prices reflect 1.75L

Essentials:

Rum: $18-21 (Captain Morgan, Sailor Jerry’s, Bacardi)

Vodka: $22-25 (Stockholm Krystal, SKYY, Iceberg)

Tequila: $22-50+ (Milagro, Herradura, 1800)

Beer is almost always the most basic ingredient of your bar/fridge. There are two types of beer though and you want both for a party. The first is beer you play with. You need this beer because it’s the cheapest you can find and hopefully tastes decent and when your playing your 7th or 8th game of beer pong; wasting a $3 of beer is wrong. You need sipping beer, the beer you enjoy for it’s taste when you aren’t playing drinking games. This beer satisfies your personal tastes, and is a reflection of you, choose wisely.

Drinking Game Beer: $13-23 per 30pk (Keystone, Coors Light, Bud Light)

Sipping Beer: $7-9 per 6pk (Quilmes, Dos Equis, Sierra Nevada)

You’ll also need some mixes and soda to make something other then shots, for variety’s sake.

Coke: $2 per 2L

Mixes: $3-5 (Margarita, Sweet and Sour, Triple Sec, etc)

There you have it. For under $100, you now can properly stock your bar for just about any party you may have. The only sticking point on this list is the tequila. For whatever reason, everyone I’ve come across, (especially girls) have a visceral hatred for tequila. So, you may be able to add some more rum or vodka in it’s place if you and your friends share the same opinion as the people I know. But that’s a topic for another post.

*Note: All Prices are from Bevmo.com on 08/15/09

UPDATE: What would you spend your$100 on?