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Table 1: Categories of DGs

Category Description Types

• King’s Cup Played with card, dice, and chance. Winner are not required to drink, however, losers Gambling Games Beer Checkers has to consume a designated amount. • • Up These games have no strategies/rules. The objective is to drink as much as he or she • 100s Clubs Consumption Games could in the shortest time. • Beer Bongs • The Players are required to repeat long or complex words or sentences. He or she who Cognitive Skills Animal makes a mistake has to drink. • • I Have Never Ever Players have to perform a certain task, for example, flipping a coin into a glass. • Quarters Motor Skills Failing to complete task will require him or her to drink. • Cardinal Puff Can be from any form of Players drink upon listening/seeing a certain cue or phrases. For example, a person • Media Games media, such TV shows, drinks every time he or she hears a TV character says ‘Hello’. songs, movies • Team Games Players compete against one another, often in two or more teams. • • Drinking Twister

Sources: (Ahern & Sole, 2010; Borsari, 2004)

11 Table 2. DGs Rules and Participation

Frequency of Keeping track of drinks Name of DGs Description Type of alcohol consumed participation during DGs

In this game, players have to say something they have never done, and those who had I Have Never Ever (IHNE) taken part in this activity have to drink. If no one has engaged in the activity/behavior, the announcer has to drink. • ‘Ready-to-Drink’ (RTD) Once a month Spirits King’s is played with a deck of cards, list of • or fortnightly. rules, and a cup. Each card represents a • Midori Participation • Cask/Boxed wine is often certain task (e.g. Jack’ could mean that No everyone has to drink). In addition, some • Passion Pop spontaneous King’s game incorporated ‘IHNE’ as one of • Punch during King’s Cup (King’s) the rule cards. Generally, the King’s card is drinking often designed to be the King’s cup whereby session. one has to pour some of his or her beverage into the cup. The player who picks the last ‘King’ card has to consume all the contents from the cup DT is a modification of the game ‘Twister’®, which is played on colored mat and spinner as a die (Hasbro, 2011). In DT, the player holds a drink in one hand, and whenever the Southern Comfort • Once a month Drinking Twister (DT) spinner points to that hand, he or she has to (Spirits) Yes or less take a sip from his or her drink. While both sexes tended to play King’s and DT, ‘IHNE’ was generally a female-orientated game within this sample.

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