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The Wii Bowling Drinking Game
Shawn Lebert, Lead Video Editor
March 24, 2010
Editor's Note: GoozerNation does not advocate heavy drinking, underage drinking, or irresponsible drinking of alcoholic beverages. If you are underage, then drink your milk. If you're a college student, then don't induce alcohol poisoning or you'll spend the rest of the evening in the ER, or worse, you could die. If you're an adult, then shame on you for still playing drinking games. Just take a shot of your whiskey and go to bed, for goodness sakes.
A lot of people are beginning to find themselves using the Nintendo Wii for other important purposes; like, using it as a paperweight or making sure it collects months of dust. "Blasted, Shawn, how dare you speak such filth. I still play the Wii Sports to this day, I shake my fist at you!" If you always had people to play it with, then sure, it IS great. The fun can only go so far until someone in the group says after a few bowling frames, "I'm bored." Tired of those pesky party poopers? Waiting for Nintendo to reinvent sports (...again)? Well, look no further.
One thing's for certain: the topic of a drinking game never gets old and devising drinking rules for your entertainment extends the longevity by 200% or more! Does Monopoly no longer have that spark? Maybe you should bust out a six-pack of cold ones and drink every time your piece lands on a red landmark. Or better yet, chug a full one if you get sent to jail. That's intense right there.
The Wii Bowling drinking game is what it's all about. Don't go into this thinking you'd get away with just four beers lying around. This is truly a party effort; therefore, at a minimum you need a twelve-pack for two people. Depending on the group of players, add six for each individual.
Just like in bowling, each player goes twice in a single frame. Your drinking depends on what standing pins remain. On the player's first go at a frame, the player drinks for every remaining pin. For the player's second go in the same frame, the person better knock them all down to get a spare or the drinking will increase! For every pin still remaining on their second go, you multiply that by 2. If you miss two pins, you drink 4, miss 5, and oh my god, drink 10 times.
What is considered a single drink? Is it a baby sip? Is it half a beer? For every sip, count until two in your head.
"What if I get a strike?" This means all the other players in the game drink for 5 seconds. The player that lands the strike doesn't drink. Getting a spare saves you from drinking. The other players do not drink on behalf of your success in getting a spare; only on strikes do others drink.
"What if I gutter-ball it on my first go?" May God have mercy on your soul, because the drinking game will not. You drink for 10 seconds. If you miss all the pins again on the second go, that's double so you take twenty 2-second drinks. People will laugh.
If you experience a pin split, this is the tough one. Better make sure you at least hit one pin because if you field goal it and miss both pins, you're drinking for 5 seconds, plus 4 regular 3-second sips. This isn't football!
The tenth frame is actually a three parter. Depending on how you do on your first part, determines your drinks. Example: If you miss a few on the first go that means you have to get a spare on the second attempt or you TRIPLE the drinks. You must triple them because if you do not get a spare, you miss out on the third part completely.
If you are still alive after the tenth frame, figure out who won. The losers drink one full beer, while the winner just passes out on the couch.
