Pass Out: The Adult Drinking Game

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He doesn’t remember how many rounds in he was when it hit him, but as soon as it did, he knew he had to get it down. If the player, after 5 attempts, cannot read the card correctly, he nevertheless retains the “PINK ELEPHANT” card and the game continues. Aside from a phenomenon like Cards Against Humanity , there just isn’t much edge to today’s mainstream board game industry.

PASS-OUT is the hilarious game where players travel around the board taking drinks, as and when instructed, while trying to collect 10 pink elephants. He’s well on his way to recovery, but many of his accomplishments are suddenly “brand-new to him,” says Bobbie. Copyrighted in 1962 and sold around the world since then, Bresee’s appropriately named game is a relic of a bygone era of social lubrication—a more emancipated time when everyone drank, everyone smoked and no one was there to nanny-state the results.The most logical place to start, then, for both Pass-Out’s creator and anyone new to the game, is the mission statement emblazoned across every box: “Winners love the game, but losers have all the fun. Everyone who catches their card can take another turn, however if someone passes out they get to be king and have an extra turn! If one player has moved all of their pieces and the other still has some on the board, then Where do you start in backgammon? But, as Bobbie Bresee, Frank’s wife of 42 years, puts it, “All you have to do is go around the board once and you’re drunk. Using a Magic Marker, Bresee began sketching out on the white tablecloth in front of him the beginnings of a board game based entirely around drinking, factoring in feedback from buzzed patrons who wandered over to see what he was doing.

Correlating heavy alcohol consumption with harmless recreation, especially in the context of a candy-colored kit atop your kitchen table, is not an association everyone is comfortable making. When I woke up, I found it all written down,” says Bresee, who needed a second to catalog the creative output of the previous evening. The object is to move your pieces around the board so that you can form a line of five or more pieces in an L-shape at either end of the board.The world’s best-selling adult drinking game where players travel around the board taking drinks, as and when instructed, while trying to collect 10 pink elephants! Depending on where you land, you could end up sipping your own cocktail, forcing competitors to sip theirs, smoking a cigarette (“LIGHT UP”), smooching another player (“Take one drink and kiss your partner, or take three drinks and kiss all partners”) or reciting a treacherous tongue twister out loud. During the game players may not smoke unless they land on a “Light-Up” square, or unless another player draws an “All Light-Up” card. If a player lands on the “Go To Bar” square he must move diagonally across the board, directly to the “Bar.

As the player collects his “PINK ELEPHANT” card, he must read aloud the tongue twister printed thereon. Her preferred drink to play with, in the early days, was a Greyhound: vodka and grapefruit juice over ice.The game may also be played on a time basis The pla1er with the most “PINK ELEPHANT” cards at the end of a specified amount of time is the winner. Bresee, who’s best known for his work as a radio host and historian, started off small, selling Pass-Out directly to retailers in his native Southern California. America has loosened up on many issues in the past 50+ years, but we’ve walked back some others, due in large part to experience. Rolling a pair of dice, players work their way across a series of spaces, each of which features a different instruction.