Best Bingo Drinking Games

Introducing a bit of alcohol drinking in your bingo game can act as an excellent catalyst and inject some life into your playing sessions.

Bingo drinking games are also an excellent way to spend quality time with your loved ones as you explore the outer reaches of your personalities. They can help you bond and create memories you will cherish forever. In addition, they are an excellent way to loosen up and blow off some steam.

This article will look at some of the best bingo games to play while drinking and show you how to play them. So if you're ready to get your groove on, keep reading to learn more.

Bar Bingo

We are sure that when you hear a bar drinking game, you're thinking, "here goes another excuse to start drinking." But far from that, this game is even suitable for people who don't drink. And yes, part of the game takes place in bars and pubs, and you can drink if you want to.

To play bar bingo, you will only require a bingo card, your phone's camera, observation skills, and probably the most challenging item on this list, social skills. Take your bingo cards and fill them out with different items you'd find in a bar. The more you can find a balance between challenging and easy items to see, the more fun the game will be. You can match all your cards or have them be slightly different.

Allocate an hour or two for people to find the items in bars and pubs, take a picture and mark them off the list. The first person to mark five items in a row and within the allotted time calls bingo and wins. So you will have to bar hop and convince people to let you into their establishments to find items on your card to take a picture. While in the bars, you can also take a few shots or have a cold beer.

Music Bingo

If you've never tried bingo before, we'd recommend trying music bingo first. It's intuitive to play and takes advantage of something you instinctively know and love: music. Furthermore, music bingo is an excellent corporate game that's least likely to offend anyone. But that's not to say that the game is dull.

To play music bingo, you will need a bingo card with a list of your favourite songs. You can pick the songs to match your events theme, a particular genre of music, or freestyle it. It really doesn't matter as long as it's music everyone playing will recognise. You will also need a DJ and plenty of drinks.

The DJ will then start to shuffle between the songs for 10 to 15 seconds, and if you recognise the song and it's on your card, mark it out. You have to take a shot if the DJ shuffles through three songs and you don't mark any on your card. Call bingo if you're the first person to mark a row of five songs before everyone else.

Sports Bingo

Sports are one of most people's favourite pass times and are fantastic on their own. But if you'd like to up the ante, let's say, while watching a football game. Play sports bingo.

The rules of the game are pretty simple. Make a bingo card with different possible occurrences during a football match. For instance, a foul, yellow card, red card, corner kick, or even a goal, but I wouldn't include a goal as one of the options if Manchester is playing. The other thing you will need is an assortment of drinks.

Once the game starts, watch out for the occurrences you have on your card, and mark them out when they happen. Remember also to take a shot to celebrate. And like all bingo games, call bingo if you're the first to mark a row of five on your card.

Lottery Bingo Drinking Game

All bingo fans will love this one. The drinking game functions much like the ordinary game; only that one is more fun than the other. You will need a spinning cage, coloured balls, coloured shot glasses, bingo cards, and hard liquor. Each team will pick a colour and match their shot glasses to it.

Then players take turns spinning the cage until a ball falls out. When the ball matches the team's colour of the person spinning the cage, they must take a shot. If it's a different colour, that team picks who gets to take a shot. Refill the glasses until the cage is empty.

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Lottery Drinking Game

Now, let's shift gears with a drinking game that's not for the faint of heart. The lottery drinking game is a pretty easy card game that aims to get hammered as fast as possible. You will only need a deck of cards, glasses, and alcohol.

Shuffle the cards and deal all of them out face down. The dealer then calls suit, and you all turn your top cards over. You will continue flipping the cards until someone matches the suit and take the number of shots on the card. If you know you're not good at holding your liquor, we recommend exercising caution with this one.

Once you've flipped all your cards, refill your glasses, reshuffle cards and repeat.

Conclusion

Even though bingo can be fun and exhilarating like most other drinking games, there is no denying it can sometimes get boring. But with a bit of creativity and the right influence, you can make it fun and memorable. And alcohol is just the thing to add spontaneity to your playing experience.

However, as we've seen, not all drinking games require you to get wasted, and you can still have fun responsibly. So, what bingo drinking do you like? Let us know in the comment section below.