Cardboard-opoly

Looking to spice up your party life? Do you have a basic understanding of how the popular board game, Monopoly works? Do you have some cardboard? What about some markers and some random bottle caps lying around?

Have you even thought about playing Cardboard-opoly with your awesome drinking buddies?

Cardboard-opoly works much like The Cardboard Game Richie and I described in a previous post only this time, we are adding elements of Monopoly to it!

It is very simple!

First, you start with a large piece of cardboard and draw a large rectangle in the middle. Next, you create a bunch of squares along the perimeter of the rectangle. At each corner, please add “Go” for one, “Jail” for another, “Free Parking”, and then “Go to Jail” as is shown here.

In true Cardboard Game fashion, the empty spaces are filled in with rules thought up by the players. When they roll the dice and land on a space, they may create their own rule for that space. In my opinion, it becomes more fun once the spaces are filled with rules.

Much like Monopoly, this game does not end immediately. Rather, it has the luxury of ending whenever the players agree upon doing something else. But once the spaces are filled, the game can still be brought out for other parties on other days.

If you happen to have a deck of cards on hand, do you also recall that Monopoly has four railroad stations available for players to possess?

This is totally optional (though I like it has an idea anyways), but have a game of “Kings” play in the middle of the board. You do so by drawing (or writing) a symbol representing the game, “Kings”. On here, I drew four crowns.

Whenever a player lands on a crown, that player must flip over a card from a deck in the middle of the board. Whatever card gets flipped, that card’s rule in kings applies to the present game.

The deck of cards can also be used for additional rules such as “Flip a card and drink for however many seconds it equals” or possibly a quick round of “Up-And-Down the River”.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to creating your own set of rules!

But as always, please drink responsibly and always respect someone’s wishes if they do not want to participate in the game or do a rule. You should always be drinking with your friends and friends are respectful of one another.

52 Drink-Up

Rich: So, I’ve got a deck of cards, and a handful of beers. Okay, not beers. High Life isn’t really a beer.

Katie: Ahh, I see! What do you suppose we do with the cards and all that beer, Rich?

Rich: I was thinking I’d get drunk in my room and play Solitaire. I think that’s a great use of my time. What else could I do with a deck of cards and booze?

Katie: I wholeheartedly disagree, Rich! There’s a lot you can do with a deck of cards and some booze especially when you’re around friends!

Rich: Well then, what would you suggest?

Katie: Well for one, there’s “Up and Down the River”.

Rich: I don’t like boats. Why’s it always got to be boats?

Katie: It’s got nothing to do with boats and everything to do with drinking.

Rich: Everything, you say? How does it go?

Katie: It’s a guessing game. First, I’ll start passing out everyone out a card and ask everyone if theirs be red or black. Then I’ll pass out cards again, asking everyone if they think their next card will be higher or lower. The next round is whether or not the next card’s number/face will be in-between or outside the two you already have. After that, I’ll ask you to guess the suit. If you guess any of these wrong, you take a sip but if you guess right, you choose another player to drink instead.

Rich: So, probability forces me and others to drink? Does this go on until we run out of cards or something? Cause I don’t want to be guessing cards until I get sick of it.

Katie: No it ends pretty quickly. After you get your four cards, I’ll put eight cards facedown into two rows with four in each column. One row will be give a drink and the other will be take a drink. This part is known as “The River”. When I flip a card over that you have, you do whatever the row it is in. And it goes up by two seconds each time. Let’s play! You’ll get it as we go!

Rich: Alright, I’ll take a crack at it. Red!

Katie: You got it wrong so drink!

Rich: Alright, so next one,…. higher!

Katie: Wrong. It’s a five so it’s lower. In-between or outside?

Rich: Hmmmmm, in-between five and eight seems unlikely. Outside!

Katie: Hahahaha! It’s a five again so you have to drink! Now which suit do think is next?

Rich: I don’t know, anything is possible! Clubs!

Katie: Nope! Queen of Diamonds. Drink! Ok, now let me set up the River… All set! This row you take and that row you gift. Oh dear! It’s a five! You’ve got to drink for two seconds now.

Rich: *glug*

Katie: Ok the next row is gift, and there’s a nine. Do you have a nine? No? Well nothing happens then since neither of us do. Ok next card is a 10. You can gift that and since it’s in the next column, any gift or take will be for fours seconds. You don’t have a 10, but I do! Drink for four seconds, Rich.

Rich: This game seems to be purely designed to make me chug beer quickly. This is getting kinda groady.

Katie: Hahaha, exactly! Do you want to keep playing or do you want to do something else?

Rich: I’ll finish this game. With enough people it could prove to be a fun time. It’s a good game to start an evening with, but I wouldn’t want to play back to back rounds. There’s no real gameplay other than guessing. One round is pretty fun. It’s a good game if you want an excuse to drink quickly. I vote we try a board-game next.

Katie: Now that’s a great idea! We can pick board games and add drinking rules to them. Maybe other types of games too?

Rich: Or even invent new games out of the aether!