Euros/Quarters

Euros/Convoluted Quarters

This game has the well known drinking game 'Quarters' at its roots. However, it also has a whole bunch of added rules to make the game more fun and involved. It's called Euros because we invented it while studying abroad in Ireland.

Start with a regular game of quarters. If you don't know how to play, put a relatively small cup, shot glass, or other receptacle in the center of a table. Everyone sits around the table and tries to bounce a quarter/euro coin in by going around the table one at a time. If you make it in the cup, you get to tell someone to drink.

Rules that we have added:

If it hits the rim of the cup, you drink.

If one person gets it in and then the person directly next to them subsequently gets it in, the second person gets to dole out two drinks. And if a third continues the streak, three drinks can be doles out and so on until it is broken.

If one player gets a personal three in a row (they get it in, turn goes around the table, they get it again, turn goes around the table, they get it again) that player gets to make a rule. This is on honor system and general consensus. It's usually fairly apparent as most people miss and thus brag when they get one.

If the coin bounces twice before going in, two drinks are doled out instead of one.

If the coin hits the cup and begins spinning of its own volition, the first person to yell out 'Quarters!' gets to dole out two drinks. Stipulation: it has to get a good enough spin going to count. This is subjective but can generally be agreed upon by the group.

If a person goes out of turn, they drink and are skipped for their next real turn. The coin they got is removed from the cup.

Leave the coins in the cup as they are gotten - The player who gets the last coin in the cup gets to make a rule.

Rules we have liked in the past:

Any time a coin hits anything at all on the table (except the table itself), the person has to take one drink for every object it hits. So if a coin bounces strangely and hits two beer cans and a deck of cards, that player has to drink three times.

Assuming you're listening to music - Any time the song changes, all players must take a drink in the short silence in between songs. If they do not and are called out on it, they must drink 5 times.

Any time someone opens the fridge everyone but the rule maker drinks.

Every time a coin falls off the table, the shooter drinks.

Get creative and have fun!