The Rating Game
The Set Up:
Decks: 1 → remove jokers
Players: Any, but 4+ is best
Possibly the easiest game to play while drinking, and easiest to explain to a group of drunks. The play is easy. Choose a category - food, movies, songs, sports teams, etc. literally any category. Partner up. Pick someone to go first.
The Play:
Between the first partners playing, one will be the card holder and they will pick up a card from the top of the deck and put it on their forehead without looking at it. Their partner will then tell them a word from the chosen category to get their partner to guess the number on their forehead.
e.g. → if the category is best at cold plunging, and your partner picks up a King, you want to say a friend you think they believe to be extremely good at cold plunging. Maybe someone like Hannah. On the other end of the spectrum, if the partner had drawn a 4 or 5, you are going to want to tell them a friend’s name you think they believe to be maybe not the best at handling the cold. For example Mack. ;-)
The Scoring:
There are different ways you can score this game. If you are on the sober side and want to get competitive, you can either award 5 points if you guess correctly, or subtract from 5 how many numbers away they are: e.g. card was Q but I guess 10 -- 5-2 = 3 points because 10 is 2 away from queen.
If you are on the drunker side of the night, you can either not keep score and just play for fun, or you can award a point to every correct guess and no points for incorrect guesses. The partners will try and do as many cards as they can in the 30 second timer and then play moves to the next pair. You only get one guess per card. And you play until each player has had a turn to guess.