Ultimate Beer Pong

Long Island Style Beer Pong

1. Cups are arranged, 10 on a side, in pyramid formation, as shown.
2. Three beers per side, evenly distributed.
3. Each beer pong team of two starts off with one ball. Beer Pong players throw the ball across the beer pong table, trying to get the ball in a cup. When a ball lands in a cup, one player from that side must chug that cup, and it is removed from the play area (pushing it to the side is OK). When both players on a team sink a cup, they get the balls back.
4. Drinking is alternated. One player drinks the first beer cup, the other drinks the second, the first player drinks the third, and so on. Throwing can either be alternated or done two at a time. Some people think that throwing two at a time improves accuracy, but studies are inconclusive. It's up to you and your partner.
5. As soon as the ball touches anything, including a cup, it's fair game to be grabbed. If it bounces in, great, but you'd better hope your opponents have no reflexes. Bouncing it in counts for two cups.
6. Cups are restacked into pyramids when 6 cups and 3 cups remain on a side.
7. When 4 cups remain on a side, restack them in a diamond formation.
8. When 2 cups remain, they are placed one in front of the other.
9. When one cup remains, it is placed in the corner of the table.
10. When the last cup on a side is hit, the losing team has the opportunity to match, getting one or two balls to shoot depending on whether or not the winning team used both shots. If the losing team manages to clear all of the winning team's cups while matching, both teams resume the game with three cups and one beer per side.
11. Any cups left on the side of the winning team must be consumed by the losing team.
12. If a beer pong player, for any reason whatsoever, drops a ball into a cup on his own side, he must drink it. Additionally, his teammate has the right to smack him on the head for being such a dumbass. There can be no exceptions to this rule.
13. If the ball is still spinning in the cup, only girls can blow it out. If the ball gets wet, though, then it is declared in the cup.
14. Winning five games of beer pong in a row qualifies you as a dynasty.

Virginia Rules for Beer Pong

Quite different than the West Coast beer pong rules

• 6 Red or Blue "Party Cups". Fill the beer up to the first rim on the cup (about 1/3 full). This equals 2 full beers per team. We arrange them in a pyramid (a paddle off the back of the table), 3 beer cups in the back, 2 beer cups in the middle row, 1 beer cup in the front, all tightly pushed together. The cups are on either end of beer pong table, or on 2 separate tables about 15 feet apart if you don't have a ping pong table.
• Water Cup. There is a cup of warm water to dip the beer pong ball in, in the event that the ball picks up something unpleasant off of the floor.
• Singles or Doubles (same rules, if you're playing doubles, partners rotate shots and drinks)
• Lobs only
• Bounces off of anything count. As soon as the beer pong ball hits something, you can smack it away so it won't bounce in.
• Drinks occur right after the shot is made. You can't shoot back until your drink is drunk.
• Rebuttals - After the last cup is made, the team behind gets 2 shots (one per partner) to try and rebut.
• Money ball.- This one is definitely different. We play with 2 beer pong balls. One is white, one is yellow. One partner shoots the white beer pong ball, the other shoots the yellow beer pong ball. If you make the yellow beer pong ball, you get it right back and retain your turn. You keep getting it back as long as you make it. Teams decide which player wants to throw their money ball. You can rotate back and forth between throwing the white beer pong ball or the money beer pong ball. Whoever is on a roll typically should throw the money beer pong ball.
• Blowing.- If the ball is spinning around the cup and not yet touching the beer, female players can attempt to blow it out of the cup before it touches beer. Male beer pong players can not blow the beer pong ball out of the cup in the event it is spinning.
• Streaking.- If one team didn't make a shot the entire game, first they finish the other teams' beers. Then they proceed to take off their clothes and streak 1 time around the house/apartment.

Bounce Pong

2 beer pong players on each side...10 cups about half way filled up with beer on each side. Object is to bounce the beer pong ball into one of the cups but you must be behind your set of cups, each player rotates, you must stand behind your beer cups and you must release the ball behind the beer pong table, if the ball lands in a beer cup then 1 of the other players from the team must drink the beer (the 2 rotate). Once 1 beer pong teams cup are all gone then that team loses, so the point is to make the beer pong ball into your opposing players cups and knock all the cups out, once a beer pong ball is bounced in a cup the cup is removed, each team has 1 chance to rearrange the cups they are trying to bounce into.

Your friends in Central PA

First put 6 beer cups in a triangle formation. The rules are as follows:

Object: Throw a beer pong ball into opponent's cup

• 1.Throw beer pong ball into any cup, opposing team player must drink that cup.
• 2.Bounce the beer pong ball into cup, the opposing team player must drink two beer cups, but the opposing team may swat it away if fast enough.
• 3.Bounce off the ceiling into a cup of beer the opposing team players must drink four cups of beer.
• 4.If a team member throws and makes the last cup of opposing team. The opposing team has a redemption shot, where he throws until he misses the shot.
• 5.Opposing team may throw the beer pong ball hard enough to knock a cup over if so that is additional cup of beer.
• 6.If you're good enough like me and my beer pong partners, you can become a member of the decade club. Win ten games in consecutive order!!!!
• 7.Must be wash cups, in case beer pong ball hits the floor. If you don't wash your beer pong balls, it is one cup penalty.
• 8.If you miss an opponents cup you must have a penalty cup at your side, you must chug this beer. Everytime you miss!!! (This makes for an interesting game)

Philly Style Beer Pong (Not Recommended unless your six)

What you need:

• 2 beer pong balls
• 2 teams of 2 players
• beer pong table
• a lot of beer
• 14 cups

Rules

• 1. Line cups of beer up 6 on each side (other 2 are to wash beer pong balls off) - line up starting with 3 then 2 then 1 kind of like bowling pins
• 2. You can either bounce it in or throw it in the cup
• 3. Ball goes in cup opposite team has to drink the beer cup
• 4. Both members of the team shoot , if both players on the same team make it in they get the balls back and get a chance to do it again. Whoever has cups left wins the game and the winner stays.
• 5. Side notes - after 2 bounces you may block the shot and you are allowed to try to blow the beer pong ball out of the cup with your mouth. If a cup is knocked off the beer pong table the opposing team has to drink it.

Triangle Beer Pong without Paddles

We use 15 beer cups on each side, aligned in rows...5 beer cups in the back, 4 beer cups right in front, 3 beer cups in front of that, then 2, then one... All beer cups must be touching, so it forms a triangle. Each cup is filled about halfway with beer. There is a team of two beer pong players on each side of the beer pong table and no paddles are used. Instead, one team starts the game by each person tossing a beer pong ball and trying to get it into one of the cups. If you get the ball into one of the opposing teams cups, one member of the opposing team drinks the beer in that cup, team members alternate who drinks the beer every time the other team gets a ball in their cup. Once the beer is drunk from that cup, the cup is placed aside and out of the triangle. Once the team has taken their two shots at the cups, the other team shoots back, and it goes on like that. The point of the game is to eliminate all of the other teams cups. The shot must be direct, and cannot bounce off the beer pong table and then go into the cup. Also, if both members of a team make their shots consecutively, the 2 balls are returned to that team and they get another chance. We used to play by your rules, but found this game to be much more competitive and fun. And tt doesn't take a blackjack game genius to figure it out.

UVM ZBT RULES for Beer Pong

NEED

• 26 cups of beer (2 triangles of 6 cups on each side, 2 wash cups)
• 2 beer pong balls
• A F'N lot of beer
• beer pong table
  

Rules of engagement (shots are thrown by hand, can be either bounce or air)

• 1. First throw is tossed by challenging/losing team ( team B)
  • A. if beer pong ball goes in, other team (team A) has chance to match
  • B. if team A matches, both teams drink cup fast as possible and attempt to make shot before other team. NOW its open table
• 2. If team A makes cup, team B must give beer pong ball back as fast as possible, while drinking the made cup as fast as possible. Team A has option of throwing beer pong ball before team B is finished drinking or. wait for team B to finish drinking
• 3. While team B is drinking: 2 scenarios
  • -team A makes shot- get both balls back
  • -team A misses shot- get one ball back
• 4. Throughout duration of game, missed shots are open balls: meaning-PLAYERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO WRESTLE/FIGHT FOR BALL until ball is in possession of either team
• 5. Once either team's cups are reduced to a total amount of 6 cups, cups are then put together in one pyramid
• 6. Knocked over cups are count as made cups, but team does not get ball back
• 7. Last shot, once the final cup is made,. there is a redemption shot,: losing team is aloud to shoot ball until they miss, only one player can take this shot. If each team has only one cup left, game goes into match mode, meaning once a beer pong ball is made, the other team has to match it,. this goes on until shot is missed
• 8. Losing team drinks winning teams beer
• 9. PLAY BALL

Melissa's rules Beer Pong

What you need:

• 14 cups
• 1 beer pong ball
• a beer pong table
  
• a lot of beer

Rules

• You have teams of 2 and 6 cups on each side and an extra one filled with water in case the beer pong ball gets dirty.
• One team goes first and if they make it in the other teams cup the other team must drink it.
• To win you must get rid of all the other teams cups and whatever cups are left on the winners side the losers must drink
• Only fill the cups a little less than half full and use the big plastic cups

Cockeysville Rules for Beer Pong

Rules

• You begin with ten cups and two Natural Lights on each side of the beer pong table.
• Have three beer pong balls, two whites and a multi-colored money ball.
• Shoot at opposite teams cups and try to hit.
• If you hit a cup they must drink what is in the cup before they shoot. If you get two balls in the same cup the other team must remove that cup and any three other cups of your choice. If you get three balls in the same cup game over and the other team must chug all remaining drinks on the table.
• If you hit three balls but in different cups you are allowed the balls back.
• The team that has lost regulation gets three balls to hit the remaining cups opposite their side of the table. For each ball that went in during rebuttals they get that ball back to try again. If team hits all remaining cups then the game goes to an overtime of six cup one beer.
• Winning team stays on the beer pong table and begins the game with two of the three balls.
• Rapid fire is allowed.

Sammy @ Hofstra Style Beer Pong

What you need:

• 14 cups
• 2 Beer Pong balls
• 1 Beer Pong Table
  
• A Shitload of Brew

How we do it:

6 cups per side, set up in a triangle-filled evenly with 3 beers. 2 wash cups. Winning team starts with the balls. If both shots are made-the ball come back to them. If a shot goes in a cup but is rolling around the inside of the cup you can try to blow it out, and as long as it doesn't touch the beer, it doesn't count as a hit. Once a team hits the final shot, the opposing team has the option of shooting ONLY as many beer pong balls as it took to win the game (If the winning shot was hit by player 1 on team A, they only get 1 shot, and if it was hit by player 2 they get 2 shots).

Beirut-East Coast Style Beer Pong

Bar Supplies

• 20 - 16 oz. red or blue cups.
• 3 beer pong balls.
• A beer pong table
  
• beer of course
  
• 2 cups of water for dipping the beer pong ball into just in case it hits the floor. Oh yeah make the cups of water cold, never attempt to put warm balls into a COLD BEER!

Rules

• 1. Pick a partner because it's 2 on 2.
• 2. Set 10 cups up on each side, in a pyramid formation 4,3,2,1, the set of 4 being in the back of course.
• 3. Fill your cups up using any beer of your choice, each side uses 2 beers to fill up their 10 cups.
• 4. The team that wins starts off with 2 balls, the incoming team has 1 ball and they are required to shoot first.
• 5. No bouncing and No leaning, just shoot the ball in the cup. If you shoot and the ball bounces off the cup its fair game, you CAN grab it! If it bounces off the cup and hits anything and goes back in IT COUNTS.
• 6. In the event that the ball swirls around the cup after a shot, ONLY girls are allowed to BLOW.
• 7. If you knock over a cup its gone, and you must drink whatever beer is left in the cup, if any at all.
• 8. If the opposite team makes a shot you must drink the cup before you can shoot back.
• 9. GANGBANGS! if you shoot and you make 2 balls in the same cup before the opposite team takes the cup away, they have to take away 3 additional cups of their choice plus the one you hit.
• 10. If you make all 3 balls in 3 different cups you get all the balls back, however if the other team throws a ball back and makes contact with any cup within the formation before you make the third ball you DO NOT get them back.
• 11. When the last cup is hit, the losing team is entitled to 3 rebuttals no matter what. While shooting those rebuttals if they make the shot they automatically get the ball back.
• 12. No distractions, waving the hands over the cups is for homo's. Girls taking off articles of clothing is perfectly legal.
• 13. No substitute shooters. You start the game, you finish the game.

Phi-Who Penn State Style Beer Pong

What you need:

• 28 cups (26 for playing, 2 wash cups)
• 2 beer pong balls
• A lot of beer
• 1 beer pong table
  
• 2 teams of 2 players each
• You may need a sipper beer if your opponents aren't sinking any

Rules:

• 1. NO bounce. Straight throwing-it is all about the arch.
• 2. First shot-players decide who gets the first shot. One player from Team A shoots once. Team B gets the next two shots. The game proceeds with Teams A and B switching off every 2 shots.
• 3. If both players on a team make a shot in one team turn, the balls are returned. This can go on indefinitely.
• 4. If a cup is spilled, or knocked over by the ball, IT COUNTS. However, if it is the center cup, or last cup, it does not count and the cup must be re-filled all the way to the top. The team doesn't get the ball back either.
• 5. The two wing pyramids can be brought together if:
  • A. There are only 6 cups or less on the table
  • B. The center cup is made.
• 6. When a player makes the center cup, the cup is set aside until the opposing cup is made. When the second center cup is made, the players who made the shots, have a cheers and try to beat the opponent in finishing the beer.
• 7. Last shot:
  • A. Team A sinks one shot. Team B has redemption shots to try and make all their remaining cups on the table. Each player shoots until they miss.
  • B. Team A sinks both shots into the center cup. Team B has no redemption.
• 8. The losers must drink all the remaining beer on the beer pong table before the next game.
• 9. Throughout the game each player is allowed one guest shot by an outside spectator. These do not have to be used.

Extreme Beer Pong

What you need:

• 26 Cups - 2 Sets of 6 on each side of the ping pong table, and two for washing.
• 3 beer pong balls
• 4 players

Rules

• 1. Each player is responsible for the 6 beers in front of him/her.
• 2. Re-racks occur after each and every made shot.
  • 5 cups remaining - 2 cups in front of three
  • 4 - diamond shape with middle two cups touching
  • 3 - standard triangle
  • 2- one in front of the other
  • 1 - when only one cup out of 12 remains, it goes in the middle of the side of the table.
• 3. One team starts with two balls, the other team starts with one.
• 4. Once a team has all three balls, this is what occurs:
  • 1. Team A with all three balls shoots the first ball, if he/she makes one of the cups, the other team must drink it.
  • 2. If while the opposing team member is still drinking the cup, and a player from the shooting team sinks another ball, one ball is given back.
  • 3. If while both opposing players are drinking their cups, and ball number three is shot and sunk, then all three balls are given back. If one player is finished, and the other player is still drinking, and the cup is sunk, then two balls are returned. The way to determine if cups are finished, is whether or not the cup is finished and put on the table. If the cup is not on the table, then the shot is considered good.
• 5. The most important rule in Extreme Beer Pong - If a player shoots, and the ball bounces off of the table, or any object, or for any reason does not go in the cup, IT IS FULL CONTACT TO GET THE BALL*. So all the pro players, that catch it one bounce after a miss, are rewarded for their drunken hand eye coordination. Those amateurs out there, get penalized. (NOTE: MUST CARRY LARGE SURPLUS OF BEER PONG BALLS FOR GAMES). Once a player has control of the beer pong ball, the contact must end, unless of course you really don't like the person. Then do as you wish.

* Note - Players must stay at the end of the table and cannot line up beside it to get a running start. This is considered cheating and offenders should be beaten.

Losing team drinks extra beer, and REFILLS PITCHER FOR NEXT GAME. Winning team gets two beer pong balls in beginning of next game.

Dakota Style

What you need:

• 56 cups (yes, that's 56)
• ping pong table or equivalent

Rules:

A seven-tiered pyramid is made on each side(28 cups per side) with one 12 ounce beer in each cup.

Each side consists of a team of four people. They take turns shooting at the other team's cups. When shot is made team drinks beer according to own rules.(Split between all members, or pairs of two, for example)

Shots may be thrown or bounced in.

Losing team must drink remaining beers of winning team. Losing team is the team with no cups remaining.

If a team shoots out of order, takes too long between shots or interferes with the other team's shot, a one cup penalty is assessed, with the choice of cup up to the opposing team.

If a team knocks over one of its own beers, that beer and another penalty beer are assessed with the penalty beer chosen by the opposing team.

If a team drops the ball in one of their own cups, that cup must be drank and the turn is forfeited.

Each beer pong team is allowed two time-outs for bathroom breaks per game

Each game takes 1-1.5 hours. Dedication is required. Drinking on the side is allowed, but can inhibit one's abilities.