The Give or Take Drinking Game also known as Give One
, Take One Drinking Game is fun to play and involves the use of cards. The rules are plain and simple and all the players will easily participate. With this drinking game, players are assured of lots of fun and drinking which is the whole point of participating in drinking games. It is ideally played by four or more players with a pack of cards.
To start the give or take drinking game the players will need a pack of cards and a dealer who has to be the host in the case where people are at a party. The players can sit in a circle facing each other or the dealer. But first before giving out the cards, the deck has to be shuffled and cut by the first dealer. For the rest of the game, players can take turns in being dealers. The dealers change every time the last card is flipped on the deck.
All the players are each dealt three cards that face up. The dealer will ask the player on their right "give or take". If the player says "give 1", the dealer turns the first card remaining on the deck face up. If any player has the matching card, they are required to instruct any player to drink the same value indicated on the card. If they have more than one card they can either "give" all of them to one player or split them and instruct two players to drink. The player must comply with this rule of the give or take drinking game and drink up.
The next card is turned over but now any player with a matching card will instruct any player to drink twice ("give 2") the value of the card as opposed to once as the first player did. The next card flipped by the dealer and a player if found with matching card he will ("give 3") whereby drinks worth three times the number of the matching card will be taken as per the players instructions. This trend will continue until the deck is completely flipped and next dealer comes in.
The next dealer will do the same thing that the first dealer did. Now if a player says "take" instead of "give", the same rule will apply but now instead of "give" the player will "take" the drink depending on the number indicated on the matching card. The give or take drinking game will go the same fashion as the first round until the cards on the deck have all been flipped. The next round will start with the new dealer asking the player on his right "give" or "take" followed by adhering to the guidelines and all the required rules as in all the previous rounds.
This game involves taking in a lot of alcohol so players need to take precaution especially those who are not used to drinking a lot. Alternatively instead of taking a whole drink, the players can agree on counting the sips.