Everyone charges their glasses. Someone is nominated to lead.

The leader shouts out a famous name. The person to his right follows with a First Name starting with the first letter of the previous famous person's Surname.

So, going round the table :

"Michael Jackson" could be followed by
"John Lennon" then
"Lionel Richie" then
"Sir Ralph Halpern" etc.

If the first name and last name start with the same letter the flow of play is reversed, so:

"Margaret Thatcher" could be followed by
"Tom Thumb" which would then pass the next go back to the person who said Margaret Thatcher.

Two final rules, you must take a long drink whilst you are thinking - don't stop until you have a new name. People who take a long time to get an answer will come up spluttering, and inevitably will get worse and worse as the drink takes effect. By the way, no names can be repeated.

Additional complications to add in are:

- Any name with "the" in the middle e.g. "Rupert the Bear" incurs a forfeit for the previous player.
- Any name which is a single word like "Prince", "Madonna" also incurs a forfeit for the previous player.


*** Warning: this game is intended for a mature audience that is of legal age to consume alcohol. Please drink responsibly and help others safely enjoy alcohol.

Your comments

Posted Fri Jan 9 2009 at 15:30 by vicky moores

Comment: this game is brill!!! had a party new years day and everyone wer playin it for hours!!!

Posted Wed Nov 14 2007 at 12:53

Comment: My friend and I played this for 7 months in Afghanistan! Every time we walked past each other we would have to give the answer. We would be on a run and pass each other shouting out names with everyone thinking we wete totally nuts when it was actually keeping us sane!

Posted Wed Mar 1 2006 at 09:44 by sarah

Comment: excellent game first to have fun n second to get drunk

Posted Tue Feb 14 2006 at 20:07

Comment: We used to play this game at work when I worked nights. Imagine a dozen people each in their own cubicle, while doing layout of ads for the newspaper, and yelling out names... Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Clooney, Chuck Norris, etc...

Posted Thu Feb 9 2006 at 16:32

Comment: tooo confusing

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