Sherlock Drinking Game

A certain someone asked for a Sherlock Drinking game. This is an obvious necessity and I'm surprised I haven't done one already. So here we are. It is designed to be used with the modern BBC adaptation of Sherlock, but may well work with other versions.

It goes without saying that you should drink responsibly. Set yourself a limit and once you get there, stop! Maybe continue playing with chocolates or bacon sandwiches or doing a little dance for each drinking opportunity.

And so we begin:

• Any one mentions Nicotine patches - one drink per patch
• Sherlock fires a gun - one drink per shot
• Watson Fires a gun - two drinks per shot
• Anyone mentions Watson's blog - drink
• Watson's love-life is mentioned - one drink
• Sherlock's love-life is mentioned - two drinks
• Any one hints at the 'boys' being a couple - drink
• Sherlock turns his collar up - drink
• Sherlock ruffles his hair - drink
• Watson sighs - drink
• Mrs Hudson moans about the mess - drink (two drinks if it's blood/body parts)
• Sherlock receives a text message - drink
• Anyone runs - drink

I think that should do it.

For the Victorian Christmas special (as many of those may not count) I shall add

• Styled moustache and beard in a named character (we might die if I include extras) - drink
• leaping from a moving cab - drink
• Sherlock lights a pipe - drink
• any cape twirling - drink
• sword stick - drink
• anyone punches Watson - drink (two if it's Sherlock that punches him)

The Archers Drinking Game

Rob! (Poor Helen)

It's been a while since we had a drinking game. I'm currently in a tent, blogging via a mobile phone (so excuse and weird autocorrects that I miss!) and I will miss the Archers omnibus today. So I thought I'd make a drinking game instead.

I'll probably tweak it when I get back to the laptop, so do let me know your ideas in the comments section below. Thanks.

And now the rules. This game may be played with alcohol, a cup of tea, or mouthfuls of seed cake as required.

Take a drink, or mouthful of cake whenever the following occur :

• Rob tells Helen what to do

• A cow moos

• Ruth says Daaaaaaaaviiiiid in a drawn out and whiney way

• Jill makes some tea... Or a cake... Or cooks anyone anyone anything really

• Anyone says anything that, taken out of context, is rude

• One of the Grundys mentions ferrets

• Kenton blames someone else for something that's his fault

• Lillian (or Kenton) has an alcoholic drink

• Kate flirts

• Kate mentions chakras

• Lynda Snell sniffs disapproving.

Don't choke on your cake. Let me know how it goes.

(Picture credit to the truely awesome Plarchers on twitter)

Poldark drinking game

First there was the Merlin drinking game, then there was the Musketeers (that's still on, do play along!) and now with the joy that is Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in the new BBC adaptation of Poldark...there is the Poldark drinking game.

As before the rules are simple, if you see a thing on this list happen in the show, you drink. Choose wisely, use shots at your peril, maybe mouthfuls of wine (or tea) or even play with mini marshmallows or skittles, the choice is yours. Have fun, drink responsibly (because those stains won't come out of that sofa)

A beautiful Cornish sunset/sunrise - 1 drink

Two people share a horse - 1 drink

Anyone bleeds - 1 drink

Ross Poldark is topless - 1 drink

Anyone is naked - 2 drinks

Someone leaps to their feet knocking over wine glasses etc - 1 drink

A fight where anyone rolls up their sleeves or removes a coat first - 1 drink

Ross Poldark's ruffled shirt is undone - 1 drink

Ross Poldark brushes sweaty hair from his eyes - 1 drink
Cute dog in the scene - 1 drink

Heaving bosom - 1 drink

A woman slaps a man - 1 drink

A woman tends to a mans wounds - 1 drink

Someone pays for drinks in a pub by flinging money - 1 drink

Bar brawl - 1 drink
Horse canters across the Cornish fields in wide shot to music- 1 drink
Anyone on a cliff top gazing out to sea, includes on horseback - 1 drink 
Every time Ross Poldark has an alcoholic drink - match him drink for drink

That's enough to be going on with. I don't want to die.

Edited 15/03/2015 - Having now watched episode one I have added a couple to the list - sorely tempted to add 'drink anytime the music is so intrusive it makes you scream - but there is not enough alcohol in the land.

Let me know if you play.

Musketeers drinking game

A drinking game to play while watching The Musketeers, for a teetotal version use marshmallows instead of shots

Take a drink when ...

• A Musketeer leaps through a window - 2 drinks, (one if it's anyone else that leaps)
• A musketeer is running through a market and a stall is upset - 2 drinks (one if it's anyone else)
• Someone is threatening someone with a musket but not shooting - 1 drink
• There is a Man hug - I drink
• There is a Heaving bosom - 1 drink
• A musketeer denies being hurt or down plays a wound that is obvious to everyone - 1 drink
• A Musketeer kisses a woman - 1 drink
• A musketeer fights with a sword in each hand - 2 drinks (one for each sword)
• A musketeer gets topless - 2 drinks
• Anyone is surprised in their underwear or other state of undress - one drink
• A musketeer stands brooding in the rain - 1 drink
• A woman banadages a mans wounds - 1 drink
• A woman folds linen - 1 drink
• Anyone swirls a cape - 1 drink
• A musketeer takes a drink....match them drink for drink
• A musketeer thinks about, or moons over, a lost/past love - 1 drink

Anyone still sober?