Abstract
Drinking games have been around for a long time, but they were not the competitive drinking games that gave rise to the contemporary bingeing, hazing, peer pressure, and competitive drinking culture. The chapter discusses drinking games as a type of social drinking that relies on the drinker’s resilience. It begins with an overview of the past, including various analog varieties, and then goes on to discuss contemporary digital counterparts such as multimedia games, binge applications, online quizzes, YouTube series on binge games, and other forms found in the alcohol industry and spreading as social epidemics.
Later he’ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the Esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stuttering from the geological layers of our animal ancestors.
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For example, iPuke, Heads Up!, Drink and Tell, Seven, Game of Shots, Drinking Game by EvilBit, Picolo drinking game, Never Have I Ever, Truth or Shots, Truth or Dare, Truth or Drink, Kings, Drink-O-Tron, Drink or Doom, Circle of Death, King of Booze, The King’s Cup, Bomba Drink, Drinking Wheel.
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Ramšak, M. (2022). Drinking Games. In: Social Impact of Wine Marketing. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89224-1_10
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