Sink the Bismarck, Drinking Game Rules

Category: Pong & Cup Games · Players: 2+ · You’ll need: Large glass or pitcher; a floating shot glass; beer

A tension game: keep pouring into the floating glass without being the one who sinks it.

Setup: Fill a pitcher or very large glass about two-thirds with beer. Float an empty shot glass on the surface, it will bob there. Everyone has their own beer to pour from.

How to play:

1. Going around the circle, each player pours at least a few drops of their beer into the floating shot glass, you can't skip, but you choose how much.
2. The shot glass rides lower and lower with each pour.
3. Whoever's pour finally sinks it must fish it out and chug the entire big glass.

Refloat and go again. Tiny pours push the risk down the line; a bold half-pour puts the next player in agony.

Sink the Bismarck, Variations

• Three-second pour: Every pour must last a full spoken “one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three”, no drop-feeding.
• Captain's toast: Whoever sinks it must give a toast before chugging; a bad toast (table's judgment) adds a refill.
• Fleet mode: Float two shot glasses, sinking either triggers the chug, and the survivor keeps floating for round two.

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