Beer Cricket
Here is a great and lively game that is ideally played outside during a good summer day. Gathering up some friends and buying some crates of beer is sure to make this game a wonderful bit of fun.
You will need the following equipment for this game: Four empty bottles, a Frisbee and a soft playing surface like the lawn… oh, and of course, plenty of beer for drinking.
Place two pairs of bottles about thirty feet away from each other and equidistant between the bottles, you place a cup of beer.
The rules are simple, but require quite a few players. There should be two teams of doubles standing behind each set of bottles with team mates together on the same side. Once everyone is arranged, the two sides attempt to hit the opposing side’s bottles with the Frisbee, with team mates taking turns in shooting. When a player hits one of the bottles, their team scores one point while converting on a mêlée (see following) is worth an extra two points . The game ends when it reaches 15 points.
To start with, team mates need to decide before beginning who is designated the ‘Berserker’ for the mêlée. The role of Berserker is taken in turns by the team mates and when the player who will be known as the ‘Bruce’ gets a hit with the Frisbee, the Berserker needs to run to the other side.
The goal of this player is to hit a bottle of his own team but he but shoot from behind the plane of his opponent’s bottles. ‘Rambone’, The Bruce’s team mate, can direct the Frisbee while it’s in the air to help it knock the bottle over and meanwhile, while the first bottle is struck, the Berserker of the opposing team charges towards the cup of beer in the middle.
He must then down the cup before he can face the side the Bruce was throwing from and once he has finished drinking, he can go where he pleases. The game stops if the Berserker touches the Frisbee or the three point play is concluded by the Bruce. While in the mêlée, the Rambone and the Berserker generally take part in play centred on getting a good position to get a clear shot at the bottles, or defend them.
Some other rules include the following:
- Hitting both bottles does not score any additional points.
- If the Frisbee flies between the bottles and doesn’t knock them over, this is called a ‘tweener’. Collecting 3 of these wins that team a point, but there is no mêlée and no limits on how many ‘tweeners’ you can get.
- The Rambone can take back the Frisbee and give it back to the Bruce but the Bruce must be the player who throws it back towards the bottles. The Bruce can go anywhere he needs to, to get the Frisbee back, but must throw from the correct area, behind the plane.
