Totally Free Bartending Drinking Games: Three Man

What you will need to play:
People
Beer
Pair of dice
Strange beer helmet (read Variation below)

Game basics:
A most excellent good time dice game. Check the variation below
for additional optional supplies.

Everyone sits in a circle. The first order of business is to
determine the Three Man. This is done by each player rolling a die
in turn. The first to roll a three becomes the Three Man (see below
for variation with the Beer Helmut.)

The player to the left of the Three Man goes first, and play
continues in a clockwise direction. The player then rolls both dice
and acts according to the following combinations:

       1:1 Doubles - see below
       1:2 Three man drinks (sum to 3)
       1:3 Three man drinks (three on die)
       1:4 Thumb to table or floor (playing surface)
       1:5 Index finger to side of nose.
       1:6 Player to left of roller drinks (7 left/11 right)
       2:2 Doubles - see below
       2:3 Three man drinks (three on die)
       2:4 Pass turn
       2:5 Player to left of roller drinks (7 left/11 right)
       2:6 Pass turn
       3:3 Doubles - see below; three drinks twice
       3:4 Three man drinks; player to left of roller drinks
       3:5 Three man drinks
       3:6 Three man drinks; Social
       4:4 Doubles - see below
       4:5 Social
       4:6 Pass turn
       5:5 Doubles - see below
       5:6 Player to right of roller drinks (7 left/11 right)
       6:6 Doubles - see below

However, if on the Three Man's turn, s/he rolls a three or
combination thereof, s/he is no longer the Three Man and then
can designate any other player as the new Three Man. (This also
includes if the Three Man rolls during a doubles give; see below)

Social: Everybody drinks

Doubles: The roller has the option of giving both dice to one
player or one dice to two players. Whatever the case, the dice are
rolled and the number on the dice is what that person(s) have to
drink.
(ie. roller gives the dice to Y and Z. Y rolls a 3 and Z rolls a five,
Y drinks 3, Z drinks 5. Or Y gets both both dice and rolls a 3:5, Y
then drinks 8.) However, if the given dice roll to doubles, the
original roller has to drink that amount. But the original roller also
keeps the turn.

To condense everything:

       Total of 7 - player to right of roller drinks
       Total of 11-           left
       Total of 9 - Social
       Any 3 or sum to 3 - Three man drinks
       1 and 4 - thumb on floor
       1 and 5 - finger on nose
       Doubles - give 'em away

Variation with the Beer Helmet:

To make the visual effect of the game more interesting, the
Three Man should have to were some sort of strange hat, the Beer
Helmet.

The Helmet could be almost anything that can be worn on the
head, orange hunters' hat, lampshade, undergarments, etc. But
tradition
holds that the Helmet be made from a discarded case of beer, cut
so the handle serves as eyepieces and a nose bridge. Other
ornamentation may be freely added, such as a plume from other
cardboard or feathers. It should look like something worn into
battle. Thus the name, Beer Helmet.

When the Three Man no longer is the Three Man due to skillful
rolling, part of the ceremony is the passing of the Helmet onto
the new Three Man.


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