Standard drinking games are badly designed; if someone does badly, they get drunk, then do worse on the next game, which prompts more drinking. The only people who play drinking games want to drink, but when you lose, you drink, so the incentives don't track anyone's goals. A better drinking game would have a drink as …

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My favourite word-game is Ghost. You go round in a circle, each person stating a letter, which builds to a word. If someone completes a word of four or more letters, they lose. If someone receives a set of letters which cannot complete a word, they can challenge the person before them. If the person before states a …

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