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How to Play Civil War the Drinking Game

Civil War is a drinking game that incorporates elements from Beer Pong into an exciting, fast-paced competition. Utilizing a regular-size Beer Pong table, Civil War can be played with four to six players, and presents a welcome alternative to Beer Pong whenever you want to keep more guests entertained or play quicker, more frenzied games.

Things You'll Need

Beer
16-24 plastic cups
Ping-pong balls, 1 per player
Beer pong table

Instructions

- 1
  Construct six-cup triangles per player on either side of the beer-pong table. If your team has two players, then you each set up a six-cup triangle, and so forth depending on the number of players. For example, if there are four total players, there should be four triangles, two on each side of the table. For the purposes of this game, each of the player's six cups represents their "lives."
- 2
  Shoot your ping-pong balls at any of your opponent's triangles. There are no turns in Civil War, so whenever you have a ping-pong ball in your possession, you can shoot it.
- 3
  Remove cups in which a ping-pong ball has landed. In this way, Civil War operates the same as Beer Pong: remove the cup and drink its contents before you shoot again.
- 4
  Win by eliminating all of your opponents' cups. Whenever a player runs out of cups, he is eliminated from the game. Whenever all the cups from an opposing team run out, the game is over.

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