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**pinknic38** · 12-04-2008, 07:31 PM

hahaha so my friends and I were always big players of Edward 40 Hands, and now I've discovered a genius (aka terrible) game that may trump it...

Tour de Franzia!!!! You get 2 teams and 2 boxes of Franzia and have a race to see which team finishes first. You can only drink from the nozzle!

I'm trying to organize this for my friends and I and if I can't get it organized soon, my birthday is coming up in February and because it will be the first REAL brithday I've been able to celebrate since I was 20 (thanks Uncle Sam!) I want to get REAL crazy.

I want to do it in spandex and bicycle helmets too!!!! hahahahahah

**micdans** · 12-04-2008, 07:46 PM

I was actually talking about this today with a friend. I couldn't handle it.

How big of teams?

**pinknic38** · 12-04-2008, 07:49 PM

I was thinking 4-5 per team. 1 box of Franzia is 5 gallons right? I've had a gallon of wine before. Ended up pretty ugly but that's the point!

God with Franzia, I think I'd get the hangover before we'd even start LOL!!!! Wake up feeling like you have an ax in your forehead!!!!!

**micdans** · 12-04-2008, 08:11 PM

It's liters. A gallon would be inane!!!

**mbo108** · 12-05-2008, 04:32 AM

Wow. We used to have Box Races in college. You'd get a team of 6 (3 guys + 3 girls). Each box would contain a 12 pack of beer, a box of wine, a fifth of liquor, a pack of cigarettes, and a 25 piece puzzle. The first team to complete each item one. It was ridiculous amounts of fun.

**offhegoes03** · 12-05-2008, 05:41 AM

hahah that Franzia game makes me sick just thinking of it!

Me and my friends in college would play a game called beer olympics. You didn't necessarily drink a ton of beer during the olympics, it was more of a precursor to heavier drinking later on in the night.

Usually you'd have a team of 3 or 4. You started off with a chug relay. Fill a cup with beer. First person in line chugs. When they finish, the next person starts chugging, etc. It's all timed and whichever team gets the fastest time gets a certain number of points, 2nd gets less points, etc. 2nd event was usually a quarters relay where you had to bounce the quarter into a shot glass and it followed a similar progression as the beer chug, but you had to go up and down the line so everyone shot twice. That event didn't involve much drinking. 3rd event was a tournament bracket of beer pong. Sometimes we'd add in a 4th event like paddling out to a dock in a canoe. Jumping up on the dock, chugging a beer, and then paddling back. The final event always involved some sort of combination of the earlier events. It was great fun and got the night off to a fun start.

**lauren313** · 12-05-2008, 08:06 AM

Dear lord, I would absolutely throw up. Then throw up again.

**raoulduke** · 12-05-2008, 03:12 PM

We used to play Goon of fortune (A wine cask is known as a Goon Bag around these parts) where you pin up wine bags on the corners of a clothesline and spin it round, whoever it stops at has to drink.

**LostFarmboy** · 12-05-2008, 04:25 PM

^ Haha, good old Goon of Fortune!! I haven't thought about that one for a while.

Beer Golf was another popular one back in the uni days. You had to drink for every shot over par you were for a hole, or simply for every shot. We never got through too many holes though because we were all terrible at golf.

**offhegoes03** · 12-05-2008, 07:22 PM

^ I've heard of bar golf before, where you assign drinks to a "par" at each bar. so let's say the first bar you have to drink a beer to be on par.. the next bar you have to drink a shot to be on par. I've never actually done it, but apparently you can substitute drinks and go under par if you drink more than you have to.

**lauren313** · 12-06-2008, 07:59 AM

With pub golf, it is absolutely necessary to dress up in an argyle print jumper, braces (suspenders to you crazy Americans?) and a flat cap. Oh yes.

**mbo108** · 12-06-2008, 10:07 AM

Also, I believe by "jumper" you mean "sweater" - learn English Lauren.

**pinknic38** · 12-06-2008, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by mbo108

Wow. We used to have Box Races in college. You'd get a team of 6 (3 guys + 3 girls). Each box would contain a 12 pack of beer, a box of wine, a fifth of liquor, a pack of cigarettes, and a 25 piece puzzle.

LOL this sounds fucking AMAZING!!!!!!!! hahahahha. I think the pack of cigarettes and the 25 piece puzzle is the best part haha.

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Originally Posted by raoulduke

We used to play Goon of fortune (A wine cask is known as a Goon Bag around these parts) where you pin up wine bags on the corners of a clothesline and spin it round, whoever it stops at has to drink.

the mental image of this is too funny. Goon of Fortune.... HAHAHAHA

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Originally Posted by lauren313

With pub golf, it is absolutely necessary to dress up in an argyle print jumper, braces (suspenders to you crazy Americans?) and a flat cap. Oh yes.

Braces are things that make your teeth straight, not hold your pants up!! hahaha. Now I kind of wanna play pub golf too. I may have to organize a golf outing this spring.

As for the Tour de Franzia, I've sparked so much interest that we're having one a week from today!!!! Instead of Livestrong it's "Liverstrong" LOL We're making invites and everything, it's going to be real fancy.

**Dig** · 12-06-2008, 02:33 PM

Those are awesome party ideas. thanks

**mbo108** · 12-07-2008, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by pinknic38

it's going to be real fancy.

Yeah, chugging boxed wine from the nozzle sounds pretty fancy...

**ScarlotteDorian** · 12-07-2008, 11:00 AM

this...sounds...insane.

i feel a hang over just reading this post. ::shutter::

have a blast though, sounds like wicked fun!

**noke_travel** · 12-07-2008, 03:43 PM

wow...i haven't played anything like since high school.

have fun, be safe and for the love of god, take some pictures!