Flip Cup

Hit Flip Cup and two of you are drinking against the clock, then flicking an empty cup off the table edge until it lands upright. Simple to say. Much harder after a drink or two, when your hand-eye coordination has quietly left the building.

The downing part goes fine. It's the flip that turns into theatre. Cups skitter off onto the floor, roll under chairs, occasionally end up in someone's lap. The first person to land theirs gets to enjoy it; the other keeps flicking, increasingly loudly, while the table counts along. Whoever can't land it takes the shot, and there's always a stubborn one who insists "one more go" past the point anyone's still counting fairly.

If you're picked, go for a firm, low flick rather than a big swing — most misses come from over-hitting it. And call the landing the second it happens; leaving it ambiguous just invites an argument about whether it wobbled.

It sits in the 3rd Circle, one of the two twenty-wedge rings that make up most of the board, so you'll cross paths with it fairly often over a session rather than once in a blue moon. Worth knowing the shape of it before your dart finds it.