starts with everyone sitting politely around a table...and somehow ends with made-up rules, dramatic betrayals and someone accidentally becoming the Question Master for half the night.
Players: 4+
Chaos level: ★★★★★
Perfect for: Parties, birthdays and nights that definitely weren't supposed to get this competitive.
How To Play Kings Cup
Set Up:
Place a large cup in the centre of the table.
(Optional: Everyone pours a small amount of their drink into the cup before the game begins.)
Shuffle the deck and spread the cards face down around the cup.
Players take turns drawing one card and completing the action that matches it.
Card Meanings:
- Ace - Waterfall 🌊
The player who draws the card starts drinking. Everyone else begins drinking in order around the circle and can't stop until the person before them stops. - 2 - You 👉
Choose someone else to drink. - 3 - Me 🙋
You drink. - 4 - Floor 👇
Last person to touch the floor drinks. - 5 - Guys 👨
All guys drink. - 6 - Chicks 👩
All girls drink. - 7 - Heaven 🙌
Last person to raise their hand drinks. - 8 - Mate 🤝
Choose a drinking buddy. Whenever one of you drinks, the other drinks too. - 9 - Rhyme 🎤
Choose a word. Going around the circle, everyone says a word that rhymes. First person to mess up drinks. - 10 - Categories 📚
Choose a category. Going around the circle, everyone names something that fits. First person to run out of answers drinks. - Jack - Never Have I Ever 🍻
Play a quick round of Never Have I Ever. The first player out drinks. - Queen - Question Master ❓
You become the Question Master. If anyone answers one of your questions, they drink. You keep the role until another Queen is drawn. - King - Kings Cup 👑
Pour some of your drink into the centre cup.
The first three Kings add to the cup.
The player who draws the fourth King drinks the entire cup.
Alternative Rules:
Want to mix it up?
- Jack - Make a new rule that everyone must follow for the rest of the game.
- Queen - Ask someone a question. They must answer with another question. First person to mess up drinks.
- King - When the fourth King is drawn, everyone pours into the centre cup until the player who drew the King touches the cup. They then drink whatever's inside.
Why We Love It
No two games of Kings Cup are ever the same.
One group invents a rule that everyone has to speak in accents.
Another spends twenty minutes accidentally answering the Question Master's questions.
By the end of the night, nobody remembers who made the rules...
Only that someone definitely regretted drawing the fourth King.
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