Edward 40-Hands
4Did anyone ever play "Edward 40-Hands"? It's this drinking 'game' where you duct tape a 40 of beer to each hand so that you can't do anything but drink them. This seemed to escape my own misspent youth, but wondering if you got to experience this epic adventure?
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Can't say that I have. In my youth, quarters ruled at parties, with and additional - rink. rank, runk - you could never say, drink, drank, drunk or point with your fingers - only your elbow. All infractions included drinking penalties.
The other was the Bob Newhart show drinking game. Which included drinking every time that someone on the show says, "Bob". You would not believe how many time they say it. God forbid if it was back to back BN shows.
No, but I went to a party once in college where the football players were doing this. I just laughed and drank the free keg beer. I guess you can't go wee wee until you've finished both 40s or something. Fun!...?
That was the same party where my girlfriend (now wife) got all up in some other girl's face because she was talking to me. I knew the girl from high school, but my girl was very territorial. This was around the same time she made me some underwear that said stuff like. "Property of _" and "Do not touch" and "Big daddy". Good times. good times.
@medz I think if you finish one of them you get that hand back? Maybe that's just the version for lightweights…
I did go to a friend's party where they did that- at the time, I wasn't a huge fan of beer, so I substituted 2x Smirnoff ice 23oz bottles.
I have fond memories of many of the drinking games I played.
The engineers drank a lot, along with the sorority girls.
That gives me a great idea for something the Meh staff could do on a stream or video: play flip cup or beer pong.
@dashcloud I forgot about Beer pong. I loved that!
I do not remember the end of the night... I did win though. But in a game like Edward Forty Hands, nobody really wins.
Do not recommend it. Save your liver a year or two.
Oh gawd, I think I know the dude on the left.
It's on my bucket list. It's only a 100 oz. bucket, so it actually takes up most of the list.
@thismyusername Hey, I remember this one ti...
Uh, wait, no I don't.
I remember Edward 40 hands from years ago on How I Met Your Mother. Never tried it though.
Here is the clip!
Let's just say I had a great time in college and it may or may not have included a victory lap due to said great time.
I was a collegiate rugby player (humble brag or something like that). If you've ever known a rugby player or been associated with a team then you know that the experience includes mass consumption of booze on the regular. Often enough that we had to find creative ways to push the envelope past what the normal drinking games were.
We did Edward 40 hands a few times and quickly realized that something needed to be done in order to curtail the immediate urge to pee that sets in as soon as you tape them to your hands simply because you know you can't go. This lead to the invention of the diaper party.
Yes you read that correctly. We convinced people that wearing diapers while playing Edward 40 hands was in their best interest. The results were glorious. Thankfully we learned our lessons early on and wouldn't allow any photography. As such, no photographic evidence is available
*Note: I have never worn a diaper post toddler years.
@MEHcus I don't believe that *Note for a second.
@MEHcus That made me chuckle. We did a night when we all got Depends and all sat around in our own evacuation. I'm not super-proud of it, but it did heighten my laziness level considerably. So that's something.
Oh yes, yee old Edward 40-Hands. This, beer pong, and flip cup ruled my college years. We enjoyed soccer so we transformed beer pong into this a game with buckets or LARGE trash cans in order to be able to use our feet and a soccer ball.
@connorbush This seems like an awesome idea.
I've never had a chance to play but I totally would as long as the 40s aren't Steel Reserve because that stuff is pure liquid garbage.
My favorite drinking game is probably King's Cup, the best is when people come up with really great rules and it's always fun figuring out the initial rules because everyone has their interpretation and house rules.
We usually weren't mean enough to make people actually drink from the cup, but occasionally it happened.
@JonT Another game with fine rules is 3-Man.
@dashcloud I probably would've played drinking games in college if they involved dice.
@JonT Yes. Kings cup. Yes.
Ok, @brfhl mentioned dice drinking games so I had to share. In the 80's I was a bartender in Milwaukee, WI. There is a game called Ship, Captain, Crew. Every bar had the dice cup and everyone played it. Not only the patrons against each other, but against the bar tender one on one. If you were the bartender - it did not matter if you won or lost (won, patron pays, lost, bar pays) you were suppose to drink. And this went on all night long. I suppose my liver still curses me for those days. And God Bless bartenders - while it looks fun and was some times, you put up with a bunch of belligerent drunks day after day. Here is the game:
http://yarddice.com/dice-games/6-5-4-ship-captain-crew
Never did Edward 40 hands. I always liked Flip cup. For some reason I did okay at that, but I'm total garbage trash at beer pong.
@hollboll Flip cup is really fun, but it's probably the messiest drinking game.
We did some "True American" it was such a dangerous-fun time. http://trueamericanrules.com/