I must check out this new diversion at a local bar. Perhaps we can add it to the VS Fest weekend activities

Drunken Jenga
If you're like most Americans, you probably spent part of your childhood playing Jenga, the simple game that requires you to remove wooden pieces from a tower of stacked blocks and place them on the top without knocking the whole thing over.

It was hard then. Add beer and it gets much more difficult -- and a lot more fun.

The Rock and Roll Hotel has turned Jenga into a drinking game with three rules: If you move a piece to the top, you make another player drink. If you use two hands to remove a piece, you drink. If you knock the tower over, you have to finish your beer, preferably by chugging.

Drunken Jenga is the brainchild of bartender and managing partner Fritz Wood, who dubbed himself "Jengis Khan." He was looking for a way to drum up business on slow nights and figured that Jenga, paired with $2 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, would be just the thing.

I stopped by with friends a few weeks ago to find most of the eight Jenga games occupied, though the bar's second level was less than half-full. We quickly learned that concentration is key: During one game, I tried to delicately remove a piece when I was startled by a loud clatter on the other side of the room, followed by laughter and shouting. Wood swiveled toward the noise. "I heard that!" he shouted. "You better drink."

DJ Ben Breier, who goes by Mr. Disco, provides a steady stream of indie rock and Britpop hits to keep the crowd entertained, though he's occasionally drowned out by the crash of wooden blocks.

That is a sweet idea. I am always looking for more jenga games.

We usually play F the dealer or Shoulders I have never played shoulders with the #10 rule. That is weird.

Oh yeah. Like I need *more* reasons or ways to get lit up. I can't do jenga sober... much less three sheets to the wind.

You think it's hard with real blocks, try playing it on the wii.

Next time you have a party, get a whole mess of beer in cans, a couple rolls of duct tape and some dice.

Everyone starts out with a beer, which is to be emptied. You are now a level 1 wizard! Now, you can challenge any other wizard to a duel.

The Challenger presents Defender with a full beer and some dice. Since you are both level 1, each wizard uses one die. There is a rolloff, the wizard with the higheset roll wins and may drink his victory beer. Once empty, the winner duct tapes the empty can on top of his first one and then becomes a level 2 wizard.

In the event of a tie, each wizard rolls again. If a tie happens 3 times in a row, the magic juice is depleted and both wizards must replenish. Both wizards chug the beer, wizard who finishes first is considered winner of the duel.

The amount of dice you roll in a duel is equal to your wizard level and a wizard can only challenge other wizards equal or greater than his own level.

Now that's a good way to get FUBAR with. I'll have to remember that one.

I'm..a level shix wizherd..um..eff you think you...ama take thish beer can..um...tape...oh shit ama wizherd..