Boom Cup, Drinking Game Rules

Category: Pong & Cup Games · Players: 4+ · You’ll need: Lots of cups; 2 ping pong balls; beer

The same beloved bounce-and-chase family as Rage Cage and Slap Cup, with a shout instead of a slap. (If your group already plays one of those, the differences are cosmetic, pick one rule set and stick to it.)

Setup: A cluster of quarter-filled beer cups around one full center cup on the table. Two players opposite each other each get an empty cup and a ping pong ball.

How to play:

1. Bounce your ball into your own cup. First-try make = pass to anyone; otherwise pass to your left.
2. When you sink it, yell "Boom!" and pass the cup on.
3. If the other cup catches you mid-shooting, the catcher slams their cup down inside yours ("boom"), and you chug a cup from the center cluster before rejoining.
4. Last catch after the cluster is empty drinks the center cup and ends the game.

Boom Cup, Variations

• Tower boom: Stacked cups build one central tower that the loser of each catch must drink under, the tower is passed like a trophy of shame.
• Call your target: First-try makes must announce the target's name before the pass, or the pass defaults left.
• Last cup lightning: When one beer cup remains in the cluster, both balls go live to any player simultaneously, sudden-death chaos.

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