Games and Drinking when combined together can be a great fun especially at parties. There are certainly many such games that involve drinking to make it more fun. One such popular game is Presidents and Assholes Drinking Game.
President and Assholes drinking game is a climbing game where the players have to shed as many cards as they can. The game is also well known by other names such as – Scumbags, Scum, Root Beer, Warlords, Asshole, Landlord, Butthead, Capitalism, Hűbéres, Trou du Cul, Einer ist immer der Arsch.
· Presidents drinking game Objective – To play all of your cards as soon as possible. The last player with cards in their hands is the ‘scum,’ ‘asshole,’ etc.
· Number of Players – 4 to 7 players
· Number of Cards – 52 deck of Standard playing cards
· Order of Cards – From high to low – 2 (Highest) A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
· Deal – The player who is the president (or the scum in some versions) both shuffles and deals out the cards. All the cards are dealt out as equally as possible. Some players may have more cards than others.
· Game Type – Drinking, Competition
· Game Audience – Adults
Contents
President Drinking game Rules
Given below are the terminologies as per the rank –
· President = 2 Points The player who has won the earlier round.
· Vice-president = 1 Point. This is the player who came second in the last game round.
· Upper neutral = Zero points. This is used for the game with 6 plus players. The player who came 3rd.
· Neutral = Zero points. This is also the player who came third in place. But this is applicable only when there are 5 players in the game. And when the game is played with 7 players, then this title is used as upper and lower neutral.
· Lower neutral = Zero points. The player who comes at fourth place, this title is only used with 6+ players.
· Vice-scum = Negative 1 point. Player who came in next-to-last place. (For example, in a six-person game, vice-scum is whoever came in fifth.)
· Scum (asshole or bitch) = Negative 2 points. The Player who came last in the earlier round. This is only used in games with 6 or fewer people.
· Super scum (butt scum) = Negative 2 points. This is the last place too. But it can only be used in games with 7 or more players.
How to Play
The game starts with the player to the left of the dealer. The game is started by playing a single card or a set or equally valued cards. After the first player plays, the rest of the players can either pass or play by beating the earlier hand before them.
In President and Assholes drinking game, a player can beat a single card using another card of higher rank. For beating sets of cards, a player has to use only equal number sets of higher rank. A player can pass any time they are not compulsorily required to beat a hand only because they can.
If a player passes at their turn, they can still play at their next turn. The game goes on in the same way until a play is made where all players pass. The cards that were played are kept aside and the player playing last will begin the next round.
How does President Drinking game end?
The game is continued until one player has played all of their cards. The player who runs out of cards is the winner and becomes the President in the next round of the game.
But the game cannot be ended when there is a new President. The game has to be continued until one player is left with cards in hand. That player is the ‘scum’ for the next round.
Players can move around. President is at the head and the Vice President is to the left. Or players can also play in the order to rank from the original seats. The scum will give their highest card to the President and the President can give them any card back that he does not want.
The players of higher status are open to abuse the players of lower status, to spice things up. Players can set a target score at first so as to reach that target at the end of the game.
Variations
Below are some of the most popular versions of President and Assholes Drinking game. If you are bored of playing the above conventional game, you can try the other ones too!
1. Jokers – This variation involves playing Joker. They can be played as high card that will beat all the other cards.
2. Highest and Lowest card, 2 – In this game version, a little modification is made. Two can be played as a card that beats all other cards as well as a card that can be beaten by any other card.
3. Threes are Transparent – This variation of President and Assholes Drinking game makes three a card that can beat all single cards and a set of threes can beat a set of equal number of cards of any rank. The threes played will take the rank of card they beat. So, if a pair of threes is used to beat a pair of Queens, then the next player has to beat a pair of Queens so as to play.
4. Fours of a Kind Variants – In this variant, if a player plays a four of a kind cards, then the rules of the game are changed. In this case, rather than playing cards of higher rank, the players have to play cards of lower rank. And if again some player plays 4 of a kind, then the rules go back to normal. If a player plays another four of a kind or if one player plays four of the same cards or if each player plays a single of the same card sequentially, then a revolution starts. Both the direction of the play and the ranks of the cards are reversed. In such a reversed ranking, Aces are highest as well as the lowest. An ace can beat any other card. However, other cards too can beat an ace. The ranking for this is high to low – A 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K A.
5. Cards of Equal Rank – The cards having the same rank can beat other cards. So, if there is a pair of 5s then they can beat another 5s pair or a higher-ranking cards pair. At times, in variations, when a player plays an equal card, the next player is skipped. In case there are only 2 pairs, then the player playing the equal rank cards gets to play once again.
6. Larger sets or cards can beat smaller sets of cards irrespective of the rank of the cards of smaller set.
7. Larger sets of cards can beat smaller sets of cards with low rank. So, if an 8 can be beaten by a pair of 10s.
That was it all about President and Assholes Drinking game. I hop you have all understood the game and can easily play it with your friends! For any doubts, feel free to ask us in the comment section below. We will come back to your rescue.