Ultimate drinking games to celebrate the end of Dry January

Molly Judgeon 3 February 2021
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Celebrate the end of Dry January with these ultimate drinking games to keep you and your mates entertained in February.

Not drinking for a month is impressive. To do it during January, the worst, coldest, most depressing month, when alcohol is most needed, is extraordinary. To have done Dry January during lockdown, you must be superhuman. 

To reward your self-control (and, quite probably, undo all the good work you’ve done over Dry Jan), we’ve found the best drinking games for a very cold and wet February. These are lockdown-friendly and are something new to try when you’re bored of the classics like Ring of Fire and Never Have I Ever. 

Drinking BattleShips

This game is great. You can make it as big as you want and what’s more, you can adapt it to Zoom and end Zoom quizzes once and for all!

  1. Divide into two teams. You can play with any number of people but we’d recommend two to four. 
  2. Each team has a grid; it’s important that you cannot see the other team’s grid (you can go big by making grids half the size of the room and hanging a bedsheet across to block your view or go small and play either side of a coffee table).
  3. The squares on the grid must be large enough to fit a drink (whether these be shots or cups - alcohol type and size is up to you). Label the squares with letters and numbers on each axis, like the picture to the left.
  4. Each team takes the same number of drinks and places them randomly on different squares of their grid. You must guess on which squares the other team have placed their drinks and, when you do, they drink them! The first team to have guessed all the squares wins. If you have larger teams, add the rule that you must drink when you guess the wrong square as well.

Netflix Bingo

Choose your fave series or film. Make a bingo card with a list of things that frequently happen in it (which is actually really funny to do in itself). You must drink every time something on the card happens. Examples could be… 

Every time:

  • Lady Whistledown narrates or there is a saucy scene in Bridgerton (spoiler: you’ll probably get veeeery drunk towards the middle/end of the series!)
  • Jay lies or there’s a mum/Carly joke in The Inbetweeners (again, this is not an easy challenge)
  • You hope you’ll grow up to be like Grace and Frankie in… Grace & Frankie
  • The audience laughs out loud in Friends and you don’t
  • You’re inexplicably attracted to Jeremy or roll your eyes at Mark in Peep Show

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Drinking Jenga

This is very fun and can be as naughty or nice as you like! Very simply, get a Jenga set and write on each brick - you can write a rule, a dare or a question. Play Jenga like you usually would but when you pull out each you brick you must do whatever it says. If you forfeit the instruction or knock over the stack, you must drink. The funniest part is that the more you drink, the harder it gets to pull out the bricks without knocking it all over.

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Paranoia

This is best if you are very trusting and comfortable with your friends and you have a pretty solid self-esteem (so it’s not for everyone!). 

  1. You need at least four people although it gets better with larger groups
  2. Everybody sits in a circle (or hangs out on Zoom). Take turns to whisper to or message the person to your left: “person most likely to…”/ “person with the biggest…”/ “person who has done the most…” and the person must answer out loud with the name of someone in the circle. 
  3. Upon hearing someone answer with your name, you can drink to hear what the question was. If you don’t drink, nobody finds out but you’ll soon discover that the game is very aptly named!

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So, there you have it. Four drinking games that you can play with your housemates to while away the long evenings and say goodbye to lockdown boredom. They’re also great for birthday parties; you could do a ‘room crawl’, playing a different drinking game in each room. 

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Molly Judgeon 3 February 2021