How to play Beer Pong

In order to play Beer Pong, you begin by finding a playing surface. A regulation ping-pong table is the ideal playing surface, but any long table will do in a pinch. Find players. Beer pong can be played one-on-one or with teams of two. Fill the 16-oz plastic cups with beer. You should fill the cups about halfway. If you fill them close to the brim, the ball is liable to bounce out too often, but if you want players to maintain a bit more dignity and self-control, you can fill the cups less than half-full. Fill two 16-oz cups with water. These will be the wash cups, in which you can rinse off balls that land on the ground. While sanitation isn't exactly the cornerstone of beer pong, nobody wants to drink a tainted cup of beer. Set up the cups at each end of the table. Arrange the 16-oz plastic cups in the shape of a triangle, such as bowling pins are set up. There should be two triangles, one centered at each end of the table. Typically each triangle consists of 6 or 10 cups, but more or fewer may be used. The row with the greatest number of cups (typically 3 or 4) should be almost at the edge of the table, and the triangle should point directly at the triangle at the opposite side. The cups should be clustered together so that the rims touch. Determine who goes first. To see who gets first throw a member of each team lobs a ball at the other team's cups at the same time. This repeats until someone makes a ball into a cup. The first person to make a cup gets both balls back and their team gets to throw first, but the cup into which the ball was thrown remains on the table. Throw or hit the balls into cups. The person or team going first attempts to throw a ball or hit with the ping pong paddle across the length of the table and into the cups of the opposing person or team. In some variations, the ball must be lobbed (not bounced), into the cup, but in others you can bounce the ball off the table and into the cup. The latter version is often accompanied by a stipulation that the opposing team may catch a ball that is bounced. Typically one or two balls can be thrown each turn. After the turn is completed, the other team throws at the first team's cup, and the process repeats. If playing teams, one person on the team will take one whole turn (that is, he or she will throw both balls), and the next will throw after the opponent's turn. Remove cups. When a ball lands in a cup, that cup is removed from the table, and the team to whom the cup belongs must drink the contents of the cup. The remaining cups stay in their places, although in most variations of the game the cups are rearranged to form a smaller diamond, triangle, or line when a team has 4, 3, or 2 cups remaining. Keep throwing or hitting until one team has no more cups remaining. The object of the game is make a ball in each of your opponent's cups. Entry Credits to www.wikihow.com Photo By: Vicious Bits