Drinking game
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Date: 2021-12-11

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#Drinking_games
Beer pong is a drinking game in which players throw ping pong balls across a table, attempting to land each ball in a cup of beer on the other end Drinking games are games which involve the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Evidence of the existence of drinking games dates back to antiquity.
Drinking games have been banned at some institutions, particularly colleges and universities.
Symposium, with scene of Kottabos - fresco from the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, 475 BC Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games from ancient Greece,
dated to the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Players would use dregs （remnants of what was left in their cup） to hit targets across the room with their wine.
Often, there were special prizes and penalties for one's performance in the game.
Drinking games were enjoyed in ancient China, usually incorporating the use of dice or verbal exchange of riddles.
During the Tang Dynasty （618-907）, the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much; for example, from 1,
5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc.
had to drink.
There were even drinking game referee officials, including a 'registrar of the rules' who knew all the rules to the game, a 'registrar of the horn' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses,
and a 'governor' who decided one's third call of offense.
These referees were used mainly for maintaining order （as drinking games often became rowdy） and for reviewing faults that could be punished with a player drinking a penalty cup.
If a guest was considered a 'coward' for dropping out of the game, he could be branded as a 'deserter' and not invited back to further drinking bouts.
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