| Beer Pong is America's most popular drinking game. | | | | Catching - If you throw the ball and it lands behind |
| The materials are easy enough to gather - ping pong | | | | the table the opposing team can catch it. A |
| balls, cups, a table, friends and beer. The set up is | | | | successful catch forces the person who threw the |
| also very easy - just set up 6 or 10 cups on both | | | | ball to take away and drink a cup. Catches must be |
| sides of the table in a triangle formation and fill them | | | | "clean" which means absolutely no fumbles and the |
| 1/4 full each with beer. Even playing is a snap! Just | | | | catch must be one handed. |
| throw the balls across the table and try to hit your | | | | Game Cup - If you throw the ball into a cup that |
| opponent's cup. Each cup that is hit must be | | | | was already made that still has beer in it, the game is |
| removed from the table and drank, the player or | | | | over. This usually happens when a player removes a |
| team to knock out all of their opponent's cups is the | | | | hit cup and then holds the cup instead of immediately |
| winner! | | | | drinking it or if both players on a team just happen |
| Beer Pong is so popular that different houses use a | | | | to hit the same cup at the same time. This can be a |
| variety of different rules. It is a good idea to try to | | | | very devastating way to lose your beer pong game - |
| find out what some of the house rules are before | | | | if you're going to hold your cups hold them with your |
| you play because if you don't know to look out for a | | | | hand blocking the top. |
| "bounce"... well you're going to get bounced on! | | | | Island - If a cup is separated from the rest of the |
| Bouncing - This is when you bounce the ball off your | | | | cups a shooting player may call "island". This means if |
| beer pong table to hit the opponents cup. If you hit | | | | they hit the island cup it counts as two cups but if |
| a cup with a bounce then the opposing team must | | | | they hit any other cup it doesn't count. |
| drink two beers - but the opposing team is allowed | | | | There are many other rules out there but these are |
| to slap the ball away if they see you bouncing. This is | | | | the most popular ones I have seen. |
| a good way to keep players on their toes. | | | | |
