1. Put the empty glass or coaster in the middle as a marker. Nothing goes in it and nobody drinks from it. Spread the whole deck face down in an unbroken ring around it.
2. Going clockwise, each player draws one card, does what it says, and leaves it face up in a discard pile. Break the ring while drawing and you take a sip.
3. Number cards: 2 = Give (name someone, they take a sip). 3 = Take (you take a sip). 4 = Floor (last person to touch the floor sips). 5 = Thumb Master (put your thumb on the table whenever you like; last to copy sips). 6 = Duel (name someone, count to three, both throw rock-paper-scissors; loser sips). 7 = Heaven (last person to raise a hand sips).
4. Face and high cards: 8 = Mate (pick a partner; they sip when you sip, until someone else draws an eight). 9 = Rhyme (say a word, go around rhyming; first to repeat or stall sips). 10 = Categories (name a category, go around; first to blank sips). Jack = New Rule (add a rule anyone can break; it stands until the game ends). Queen = Question Master (anyone who answers your questions sips until the next Queen).
5. Ace = Waterfall. Starting with the drawer, each player in turn takes one sip, one at a time around the table. Nobody races anybody and nobody keeps going.
6. King = the game clock. The first three Kings drawn each earn the drawer one free pass to use later. Whoever draws the fourth King ends the game and picks what happens next: playlist, next game, food order.
7. Sober version: play with water, soda, or coffee. The game does not change and nobody needs to announce they are not drinking.
8. One sip means one sip. Anyone may pass on any card with no explanation and no penalty.

House rule: Bitch Love rule: the Jack who writes a new rule has to obey it first. Break your own rule inside two turns and it dies with you, and you take the sip.

1. Shuffle a 52-card deck. The dealer runs the deck and does not guess. Deal rotates left every round.
2. Round one: each player guesses red or black. Dealer flips one card to them. Wrong guess, one tally. The card stays face up in front of the player either way.
3. Round two, higher or lower than the card you already have. Round three, inside or outside your two cards. Round four, name the suit. Exact ties count as wrong. One tally per miss, four cards each at the end.
4. Tallies are the currency. One tally is one sip of whatever you brought, or one pretzel if you are not drinking. Water counts. Cap it at three sips per round, no exceptions and no arguing.
5. Pyramid: deal 15 cards face down in rows of five, four, three, two, one. Flip them one at a time starting with the bottom row of five. Anyone holding that rank turns the card in and cancels tallies equal to the row's value, one at the bottom row rising to five at the single card on top.
6. Whoever finishes with the most tallies rides the bus. Tie, everyone tied rides together. Lay five fresh cards face down in a row and flip them one at a time. Number card, keep moving.
7. Face card or ace, take one sip, or one pretzel if you are not drinking, and restart the row.
8. Three restarts and the bus lets you off regardless. That is three sips maximum, and nobody needs to be on there all night.

House rule: The bus rider picks the next song and the table has to sit through all of it. Anyone who complains picks the song after that, so the table knows exactly who to blame next.

1. One deck. Three lives each, tracked with coins or chips. Aces are 11, face cards 10, everything else face value.
2. Deal three cards to each player, put the rest face down as the stock, and turn one card face up beside it.
3. On your turn take the top card of the stock or the top of the discard pile, then discard one. Your hand is always exactly three cards.
4. Your score is the total of your cards in a single suit only. Mixed suits do not add together. Three of a kind of any rank scores 30 and a half.
5. Three cards of one suit adding to 31 is the top hand. Show it immediately. Everyone else loses a life on the spot.
6. Instead of drawing you may knock. Everyone else gets one more turn, then all hands go face up. Lowest score loses a life, and the knocker loses two if they are the lowest. Tied for lowest, everyone tied loses a life.
7. Losing a life costs one sip or one token into the middle. Pick which currency at the start of the night, not hand by hand. Non-drinkers use tokens or water and the game runs identically. One sip per life lost, never more.
8. Out of lives, you are out of the deal. Last player still holding a life takes it.

House rule: Knock on anything under twenty and you announce the number out loud before the reveal. If you were right to knock, nobody says a word for the rest of the hand.

1. Deal the entire deck out. Uneven hands are fine and nobody gets to complain about it.
2. Ranks run in order starting at ace. The player left of the dealer goes first, placing one to four cards face down on a central pile and announcing them: two aces, one ace, whatever the claim is.
3. The next player plays the next rank up. Twos, then threes, on through king and back around to ace. You must play at least one card and you must name the current rank, honestly or otherwise.
4. Any player may call cheat before the next play lands. Flip only the cards just played. If the claim was a lie, the liar takes the whole pile. If the claim was true, the caller takes it.
5. Whoever picks up the pile takes one sip, or one tally if they are not drinking. Same rule for everyone, and water counts. Never more than one sip per pickup no matter how big the pile is.
6. First player to get rid of every card wins, but the win must survive. If you empty your hand on a bluff and nobody calls it, the bluff stands and you have won.
7. If you call cheat wrongly twice in a row, sit out one call. Read the room before you open your mouth.

House rule: You are only allowed one physical tell per night. Pick it early, keep using it, and let the table decide whether it means anything.