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This drinking game is played by randomly drawing cards from a pile, and then following the rules for each card. The game ends when the fourth king is drawn, at which point that person must drink the contents of the “Kings Cup”.

To play the Kings Cup drinking game, place a large plastic cup in the center of a table, and spread out a deck of cards face down in a circle around the cup. Moving clockwise, players take turns picking random cards from around the cup. Each card has a different action associated with it, listed here. Every time you draw an:

1. (Ace) – Make a Rule. Anytime someone breaks this rule, they take a drink.
   
2. (Two) – Screw You. Tell someone to take two drinks when you turn up a two.
   
3. (Three) – Screw Me. If you turn up a three, drink three.
   
4. (Four) – On the Floor. Last person to put their palms on the table takes a drink.
   
5. (Five) – In the Sky. Last person to put their hands in the air take a drink.
   
6. (Six) – GroupDrink. Social… everyone drinks.
   
7. (Seven) – Questions. Ask anyone a question. They have to answer back by asking someone else a question. The first person to screw up and respond with a non-question takes a drink.
   
8. (Eight) – Waterfall. Everyone starts drinks, and you can’t stop until the person to your right stops. The card drawer can stop whenever they want.
   
9. (Nine) – Rhyme Time. The card drawer start with a sentence, and in clockwise order everyone else has to rhyme with it. The first person to break the rhyme take a drink.
   
10. (Ten) – Categories. The card drawer chooses a category, like beer for example, and then names something in that category… like Coors. The first person to not be able to name something in the category must take a drink.
    
11. (Jack) – All guys at the table take a drink
    
12. (Queen) – All ladies at the table take a drink
    
13. (King) – King’s Cup. Pour as much of your drink into the Kings Cup as you want. If you pull the 4th and last king, you must drink the cup.
    

The game is officially over when the last king has been drawn, but feel free to continue playing until all the cards have been drawn. There are other variations of the game as well that have you do different actions for the different cards in the deck, but this version is the most fun.