Drinking games are just stage business on the binge path to liquid euphoria. Drinking that much alcohol without some sort of activity may lead you and your loved ones to start thinking intervention. The same amount of consumption under the rules and regulations of a drinking game, however, is socially acceptable.
Some gamers use cards and dice to regulate drinking, but the more active drinkers (why you want to be drunk and active seems suspect) embark on the classic beer pong. Hand-eye coordination is put to the ultimate test as tilting co-eds and cubicle dwellers across the country crowd bars to land a ball in a plastic cup and stave off diseases from floor balls -- balls that hit the floor, the dirty bar floor.
The main problem with beer pong is that the tables are so big and force the game to be played in public or houses WITH a lot of room and WITHOUT a lot of judgmental adult visitors. "Look, John has an entire room devoted to beer pong."
Our own Fletch, for reasons unknown, scoured the 100+ variations of the game (some include paddles) to find a version to play in his Manhattan apartment and came up empty handed. The versions range in size from 132 cups to a version for dorm rooms, but even "Dorm Pong" involves dismantling the closet to get the big playing surface. So Fletch, for reasons unknown, invented Nano Beer Pong (pictured above). It's a scrappy game, suitable for claustrophobics and New Yorkers. If you're really hard core, you can try the Nano Vodka Pong.
Check out this month's issue of Drink World for full Nano Beer Pong rules.
