Pass Out: The Adult Drinking Game

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Drew Lazor on how the game came to be, and what it says about our society's very different stances on drinking then and now.

Rolling a pair of dice, players work their way across a series of spaces, each of which features a different instruction. Copyrighted in 1962 and sold around the world since then, Bresee’s appropriately named game is a relic of a bygone era of social lubrication—a more emancipated time when everyone drank, everyone smoked and no one was there to nanny-state the results.Those verbal challenges— “Amos Ames the amiable astronaut aided in an aerial enterprise at the age of eighty-eight”—are doled out to players via “Pink Elephant” cards, a cheeky reference to the hallucinatory beasts synonymous with drunkenness (see, for reference, a bottle of Delirium Tremens beer). Theophilus the thistle sifter while sifting a sifter full of thistles thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. It was the early 1960s, and Bresee, who made his living coordinating prizes for shows like Let’s Make a Deal, was in a Hollywood lounge frequented by television types. igue twister printed thereon If the player makes a mistake in the reading of the card, he must rake a drink from his glass; and each subsequent time the player errs in reading the card he must take an additional drink, If the player, after 5 attempts, cannot read the card correctly, he nevertheless retains the “PINK ELEPHANT card, and the game continues.

The “ pass out board game pink elephant cards” is a fun and easy to learn card game that can be played by two players.Depending on where you land, you could end up sipping your own cocktail, forcing competitors to sip theirs, smoking a cigarette (“LIGHT UP”), smooching another player (“Take one drink and kiss your partner, or take three drinks and kiss all partners”) or reciting a treacherous tongue twister out loud.

A classic drinking game that has been around since the Seventies, PASS OUT is sure to get you SOZZLED! From the Xs-for-eyes stick figure that serves as the game’s mascot to the mischievous, mildly lascivious instructions, Pass-Out is not exactly subtle about its intentions. It bought this house [in Hollywood], it bought a house in Hancock Park, two Rolls-Royces, dozens of trips to Europe and all my opera dresses,” says a chuckling Bobbie, who dusts off her personal copy every time she hosts a Bunny reunion at her home.A few years back, Frank, who is 86, suffered a serious stroke, which has affected his speech, movement and recollection.