Irish Quarters – the Drinking Game
Irish Quarters is a very simple and fun game but in the Irish tradition of drinking it’s purely that a “Drinking” game. It isn’t for the light weights in the room this game has one purpose and that is to get you drunk. Make sure you have Irish blood before you attempt this game, you are going to need a high tolerance and the ability to chug a lot of beer before you can be affective at this game.
Simple enough to setup and play all you need is a Quarter, a cup, and lots and lots of beer. You can play this game with as many people as you want there is not really a winner unless you want a moral victory in the game, in fact you could play alone, but that would mean you had a drinking problem so get some friends so it doesn’t seem as bad.
How to play is very easy, simply fill the cup as much as you think you want to chug, then spin the quarter (trying to keep it going for a long time), chug the beer in the cup as fast as you can. Fill the cup back up (this is where its fun you can fill it as much as you want for the next person), but you must grab the quarter before it stops spinning, so you have to judge how much you can fill the cup by the quarter.
If successful in chugging and refilling the cup, before the quarter stops spinning then you can pass on to the next player. If you didn’t get all the tasks accomplished and the quarter stopped then you must try again until you are successful, or until you can’t walk either way you are a winner.
Other variations of the rules I have played, one you can flick the quarter to keep it spinning (very hard when you are drunk). You can also choose who to pass the game on to if there is a large group of players and you want to get one of them really drunk (normally the game goes clockwise).
So like I said there really isn’t ever a winner, just the moral victory that you have the ability to chug a lot of beer and fill a cup before a coin stops spinning, when you break it down like that it sounds stupid, but its fun!!!
This game is guaranteed to get you drunker than ten Indians, but it also sure to provide you with a couple of hours of fun. I only say a couple of hours because I have seen the best get taken down by this game, they start off cocky and end up hunched over the toilet asking why they would ever play Irish Quarters. Oh and never play this game with Pabst Blue Ribbon; just trust me on this one.
Leave it up to the Irish to make a drinking game where the only win is a moral victory, unless you count getting hammered a victory in that case anyone who plays is Grand Champion!
