User:Sarah55555/You Got Served (drinking game)

You Got Served is a highly intensive, fast-paced drinking game that can be played simultaneously by an unlimited number of people while keeping everyone involved in the game at all times. The game was invented at Northeastern University in Boston and made popular in Billerica, Massachusetts.

Object of the Game

To bounce your ping pong ball into your cup before the player to your right bounces their ping pong ball into their cup. This is synonymous with "serving" other players as many times as possible.

Set Up

Fill approximately 20 solo cups half-full of beer and place them in the center of the table. These are not part of actual game play but are necessary for when someone gets served. Have as many people as you want (the more the merrier!) stand around a circular table. Give an empty solo cup and a ping pong ball to two players, one on either side of the table, as shown in Figure 1 by Player A and Player B.

Winning the Game

The only way to lose this game is to not be able to drink anymore and quit by your own decision. Therefore, the winner is typically the person who gets "served" the least.

Game Play

Someone says "Go" and the two players with ball and cup begin trying to bounce their own ball into their own cup. If a player bounces the ball into his cup on his first attempt, he may pass the cup to any other player at the table. If a player fails to bounce the ball into his cup on the first attempt, he continues until he either gets the ball in (or until he gets served). When a player bounces the ball into his cup on any attempt other than his first attempt of that particular turn, he must pass the cup to the player directly to his right.

Getting Served

If two adjacent players each possess a ball and cup, the player on the left can "serve" the player on the right by bouncing his own ball into his own cup before the player on the right can complete the same task. If the player on the left gets the ball in first, he must backhand the cup of the player on his right and yell "You got served." The served player must drink a beer from the cups in the middle before play can continue. Balls and cups are reset to a starting position to any two players who are on opposite sides on the table.

Example of Getting Served

In Figure 2, if Player D and Player B possess the cups and are each trying to bounce their ball in, and Player D gets his in first, he can serve Player B. If Player B gets his ball in first (on his second or greater attempt), Player B passes his cup to Player C, and play continues on until someone gets served.

Example of Strategery

If the game has just begun (as in Figure 1) and Player A bounces his ball into his cup on his first attempt, he has the option to pass the cup to any player at the table. Therefore, if Player B is still trying to get his ball in at this time, Player A has the decision of who to attempt to screw over. Passing the cup to Player C almost guarantees a servage of Player C, since Player B has had so much time to try to get his ball in. However, if Player A knows that player B is a terrible player, Player A will pass the cup to Player D, knowing that Player D will serve Player B while Player B futilely tries to get one bounce in.