Stop the bus, an excellant card drinking game.
Goes a little like this:
STEP 1: Get a deck of cards, shuffle and lay out like diagram below.
O
OO
OOO
OOOO
OOOOO
STEP 2: Issue the remaining cards to the players. 4 cards per person usually, could issue more for less people.
STEP 3: Pick someone to be the bus driver. This person turns over the cards throughout the game, whilst still playing himself. When the bus driver turns over the first card he says " Going, Going, Gone " during this time each player needs to say stop the bus if they have a matching card, and place it on top.
STEP 4: If anyone places a card down, they need to nominate someone to drink. Each line is 5 seconds so goes a little like this.
5 O
10 OO
15 OOO
20 OOOO
25 OOOOO
The person who nominates has to count. If any one person has 2 of the same card they have to place them down and just double the seconds.
Play right to the end.
STEP 5: The person who has the most cards left at the end is on the bus. The dealer needs to re shuffle the deck and make a new pyarmid for the bus rider.
STEP 6: Once the pyramid is layed out the rider needs to pick one card from each line, working the way down turning the card over each time its picked. The aim is to get through without turning over any card from 10 upwards. If they do they have to drink for the ammount of seconds for the line there on. At this point the turned over cards need to be replaced with fresh ones from the deck.
Keep going till the rider gets all the way through !
Brilliant game, and will get you drunk very quickly.
Me and my mates throw some stupid rules in too, penalty rules such as. Buffalo, you must drink with the oposite hand. Nicknames, you assign a nick name to everyone for the night and mustnt say there real name. and Ace of spades, if this card gets turned over u gotta get up and play the air guitar, last one to do this downs what they got left in there cup, can.