Across the Bridge, Drinking Game Rules

Category: Card Games · Players: 2+ · You’ll need: 52-card deck; drinks

A solo card gauntlet: cross a line of cards without hitting a face card.

Setup: Shuffle and deal a "bridge" of 10 face-down cards in a line. The rest of the deck stays in hand for refills.

How to play:

1. The active player flips the bridge cards one at a time, left to right.
2. Number cards (2–10) are safe, keep going.
3. A Jack, Queen, King, or Ace stops you: drink J=1, Q=2, K=3, A=4 sips. Then the dealer places that many new face-down cards on top of the flipped ones, and you continue from where you stopped.
4. You cross the bridge when the last card in the line is flipped and safe. Then the next player rebuilds the bridge and takes their turn.

Across the Bridge, Variations

• Long bridge: 15 or 20 cards for a genuinely scary crossing.
• Partner crossing: Cross in pairs, either player's face card sends both back, but you split the sips.
• Toll bridge: Number cards matching your previous flip (two 6s in a row) cost 1 sip as a “toll” but don't reset you.

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