Bachelor party drinking games for the whole weekend

Quick picks

Game	You need	Best for
Beer Pong bracket	Table, cups, balls	The main event
Flip Cup, groom’s team vs the rest	Table, cups	Everyone at once
How Well Do You Know the Groom?	Questions written beforehand	The start of the night
Groom’s rules	Nothing	All weekend
Most Likely To	Nothing	Mixing friend groups
Poker with sips	Cards, chips	A slower night
Ride the Bus	Deck of cards	Card-game crowds
The partner’s questions	A phone	Big laughs
Wrecked (app)	One phone	Between the bigger games

1. A beer pong bracket

Pair everyone up and draw a bracket on a whiteboard or a big sheet of paper. Six cups per side keeps games short. Fill the table cups with water; a hit means the defending player sips their own drink. The groom plays with the best man, or referees if he wants to pace himself. Beer Pong rules, including re-racks and redemption.

2. Flip Cup: the groom’s team against the rest

The groom picks his team, the rest are the opposition. Losing team sips. Best of five, then swap a player. Flip Cup rules and variations.

3. How Well Do You Know the Groom?

Before the weekend, ask the groom twenty questions and keep his answers: first car, worst haircut, the moment he knew, his partner’s coffee order. At the party, everyone writes an answer to each question. Wrong answers sip; the best score hands out sips at the end. School friends against university friends is the classic split.

4. Groom’s rules

Three rules for the whole weekend:

• Anyone who says “wedding” sips.
• Nobody may call the groom by his name, only “the lucky one”.
• When the groom sips, everyone sips.

Keep it to three. In Wrecked, King’s Rules work like this, up to four at once, shown on screen so nobody can claim they forgot.

5. Most Likely To

Point on three; the most-voted player sips. It is the fastest way to get a mixed group laughing at the same person. Start with these from the Wrecked deck:

1. "I'd totally ghost someone over a bad playlist." Who's most likely to have said it?
2. Who is most likely to leave this party first tonight?
3. Most likely to accidentally send a risky text to the wrong person.
4. Who here is most likely to go viral on TikTok?
5. Who's most likely to accidentally become a meme?
6. Who's most likely to run for office?

More in most likely to questions.

6. Poker with sips

Play normal Texas Hold’em with chips. Every time you lose a pot over a set size, sip. Bust out and you are the dealer for the rest of the game. A good slower game for the night before or the morning after.

7. Ride the Bus

Four guesses each, a pyramid of matches, and a bus ride for whoever ends with the most cards. Cap the bus at three restarts. Ride the Bus rules.

8. The partner’s questions

Before the weekend, ask the groom’s partner ten questions about him and record the answers. The groom guesses what they said. Every miss, he sips; every hit, the group sips.

Keep the groom upright

Bachelor parties are where groups go too far, usually on the first night. Put food out before the first game, use water cups for pong, make every game sips instead of shots, and never pressure the groom (or anyone) to drink. Book travel home before you go out. More on our responsible drinking page.

Planning the other side? See bachelorette drinking games. A big group? See drinking games for large groups.