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It is not immediately obvious whether the person with the highest intoxication level at the end of the game is actually the winner or the loser.
Perhaps the simplest drinking games are the ones in which players compete to out-drink each other. Players take turns taking shots, and the last person standing is the winner. Some games have rules involving the "cascade", which encourages players to drink constantly from their cup so long as one chosen player doesn't stop drinking. Such games can also favor speed over quantity, in which case players might, for example, race to "chug" a beer the fastest.
Numerous drinking games are based on popular movies, television shows, and even books. The rules for these usually instruct the players to drink when some event occurs, such as a character speaking a catch phrase in comedies, or the use or mention of a particular technology in science fiction. Typically the size of the drink is inversely proportional to the frequency of the event — an event that happens rarely can call for finishing one's current can/bottle. These games might have simple, easily remembered rules, or they might have detailed rules, often available on the Internet.
A generalization of the above can apply to other circumstances in which the participants are observing a situation in which certain predictable events occur, such as a movie, a football game, or other people at a party or in a bar. For example, each player may be assigned the name or number of a football player, and must drink when that name or number is mentioned by the commentators or shown on the screen. Events such as the State of the Union address, the Oscars, and the Eurovision Song ContestRunning since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest (in French: Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting U (for example) have become targets of such drinking games, often as a means of relieving the monotony of a long event.
Some drinking games, such as QuartersQuarters is a popular drinking game which involves players bouncing a quarter off of a table in an attempt to have the quarter land, without another bounce, in a drinking glass (or cup) on that table. The game is popular at parties, especially in colleges, involve performing certain skills, which become more difficult as the level of intoxicationdrunkenness Intoxication is an impaired mental and physical state caused by drinking alcoholic beverages or taking narcotic drugs. Sometimes, people in this impaired state act irresponsibly because of reduced inhibitions. The term intoxication is typicall increases. Other drinking games rely on memory; each player must repeat a series of events, and then add to it. If a player repeats the series incorrectly, he or she must take a drink. These games start out simple, but become much more challenging as the series grows and the players get drunker and their coordination and memory deteriorate.