Three Man Drinking Game and Rules
Three Man is a drinking dice game that is usually played in college. It is more of a sociable game that requires virtually no skill. It is best to play Three Man with a group of 4-8 people sitting around a table that already have a few drinks in them. The game is played with 2 dice. There really is no winner or loser in this game and it ends when everyone agrees.
How To Play
The first thing that needs to be done is to determine a ‘Three Man’. This can be done by having everyone roll a dice until someone rolls a three, having someone volunteer, or having everyone vote someone to be the ‘Three Man’.
The ‘Three Man’ is the person who will be doing the majority of the drinking and different people become the ‘Three Man’ throughout the game. Basically, anytime someone other than the current ‘Three Man’ rolls a 3 or the combined total of the dice add up to 3 (2 and a 1), the Three Man Drinks. Anytime the current Three Man rolls a 3 or the dice add up to 3, the Three Man can then designate anyone else at the table as the new Three Man.
Play goes clockwise around the table. Each player rolls 2 dice for their turn and follows the simple rules below. They keep rolling until one of the dice combinations below are not met.
List of dice combinations and actions:
Any 3 or sum of 3 – Three Man Drinks
Sum of 7 – person ahead of the current roller drinks
Sum of 11 – person behind the current roller drinks
Sum of 9 – sociable, everyone cheers and then drinks
1 and a 4 – Everyone puts their thumb on the table. The last person to do so drinks.
1 and a 5 – Make or cancel a rule. When this happens, the person who rolled the 1 and 5 can invent a rule: ‘Tap your head before every drink’, ‘Grab your boob before every drink’, ‘Flick an imaginary little man off your cup before you drink’. If anyone ever breaks these rules, they must drink again. Alternatively, instead of creating a rule, the roller can remove an existing rule: ‘You don’t have to tap your head before you drink anymore’.
Doubles – Whenever doubles are rolled (1 and 1, 2 and 2, etc…), a single dice can be passed to 2 different people or both dice can be passed to the same person. The people who receive the dice roll them and drink the number they roll. If 2 dice are passed to one person, they drink double the sum they roll unless they roll doubles. If they roll doubles, the person who passed them the dice have to drink double of their roll!
If none of the above combinations happen on a roll, the dice are passed to the next person and they begin their turn.
