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Ring of Fire is a drinking game played with a cup and a deck of cards. the deck is shuffled, then spread in a ring around an empty cup. Actions are assigned to each card, either for quick games (e.g., seven, heaven, the last player to put a hand up has to drink) or for certain players to drink (e.g, three, me, the player who drew the card drinks). When a king is drawn, every player adds some of their drink to the cup, and the player who draws the fourth king has to drink the resulting mixture.
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Wall Ball is a game where players take turns bouncing a ball off the ground and into a wall. When the ball bounces back, the next player must catch and return it before it hits the ground.
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Mao is a card-shedding game where players cannot be told the rules of the game.
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Greased watermelon is a pool game where players try to move a greased watermelon across the pool and into the opposing team's goal, without lifting it out of the water.
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Quantum-tic-tac-toe is a version of tic tac toe used to introduce quantum mechanics. There are numerous variants, but the uniting factor is that multiple symbols can be placed in one square, creating a "superposition", which can then be collapsed by the opposing player.
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Beer pong is a two-team drinking game. Cups are partially filled with beer (or other liquid) and arranged in a triangle at either end of a table. Players then take turns trying to throw a table-tennis ball into the opposing team's cups. If the ball lands in one of a team's cups, the current player from that team must drink the contents, and the cup is removed from the table. The first team to lose all their cups this way loses.
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Root is a simple wargame where players compete for control of a forest. The factions are represented by various cute woodland animals, and have different starting positions depending on their lore.
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24 is a card game/puzzle where players aim to be the first to make 24 from four drawn cards using field operations (division, multiplication, subtraction, addition, parentheses). Each set of four cards, drawn from a shuffled deck, constitutes a round. The game ends when the deck is exhausted, and the player who has won the most rounds wins.
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Scotland Yard is a board game where a team of players controlling different detectives cooperate to track down a player controlling a criminal as they move around a board representing the streets of London.
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Guess Who is a two-player board game where players attempt to identify their opponent's chosen character by asking questions, e.g, "Does your person wear a hat?" and flipping down the character cards that don't have that characteristic.
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Oh hell is a trick-taking game where players aim to take exactly the number of tricks specified by a bid after a deal.
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"three things that aren't jackie chan" is a game where players try to be the first to name three things that are not award-winning actor, director, martial artist, musician, and stunt performer Jackie Chan. Submitter says it "Works best when playing the game with a bunch of young kids who are in denial about how hard the game is. Make sure you show off how hard it is by blundering a number of times."
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Trivial Pursuit is a board game where players win by answering trivia and pop-culture knowledge questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question they are asked from a card. Each correct answer allows the player's turn to continue; a correct answer on one of the six "category headquarters" spaces earns a plastic wedge which is slotted into the answerer's playing piece. The object of the game is to collect all six wedges from each "category headquarters" space, and then return to the center "hub" space to answer a question in a category selected by the other players.
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Snakes and Ladders is an ancient racing board game where players can encounter and move down "snakes"/"Chutes", and move up ladders. Boards are often morality-themed, with snakes being associated with bad deeds or vices, and ladders with good deeds or virtues.
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Mau-mau is a card-shedding game played with French or German-suited cards, where the aim is to be the first player to discard all of your cards.
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The Mind is a dedicated-deck card game where players try to place a selection of numbered cards in ascending order without speaking or otherwise indicating the cards they hold.
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Exploding Kittens is a dedicated-deck card game where players try to avoid being "killed" by drawing an exploding kitten card.
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