The Neighbor Card Game (a Classic Pub Card Game)

What You Need: Deck of Cards 3 or more people The Game: 1. Deal out the deck to all the players involved, keep cards face down. Decide who is going to...

The Neighbor Card Game (a Classic Pub Card Game)
Original Drink101 photo, since 2008

What You Need: Deck of Cards 3 or more people

The Game:

  1. Deal out the deck to all the players involved, keep cards face down. Decide who is going to throw a card first.

  2. First person calls out a suit. This is the suit you DO NOT want to throw. First person flips over a card. If it is not the suit, then the next person throws a card.

  3. Once the suit in play is called, that person must drink for the amount of seconds designated on the card. Once he/she is done drinking he/she must call out the next suit before they set their drink back on the table. If the suit is not called before the drink hits the table, that person must drink again for the same amount of seconds.

  4. Continue Until all cards have been played.

This is an old-school drinking game, and the original rules assumed everyone was chugging beer. Our house rule now: keep a cup of water in the rotation alongside the drinks, let people opt out of any round, and never play this as a "last one standing" competition. Games are more fun when everyone remembers the ending.
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