Waterfall — nobody wants to hold up the chain

Waterfall sounds simple until you're actually in it. The dart lands, the thrower starts drinking, and the person to their right follows — then the next person, and the next, all the way round the table. Nobody's allowed to stop until the player to their left puts their glass down first.

That's the whole trap. You don't control when it ends, only when you join in. At a real table it turns into a sideways stand-off: everyone tracking the person before them out of the corner of their eye, nobody wanting to be the one still going once the room's gone quiet and watching.

The honest tactic is pacing, not bravado. Whoever necks half a pint the moment the dart hits is usually the one still drinking a full minute later, to groans and a slow clap from everyone who sipped instead. Small mouthfuls, steady rhythm, eyes on your left — that's how you get out of a long chain looking sensible.

Waterfall sits in the 1st Circle, one of only ten names on that ring. The board makes up the numbers by doubling the width of every 1st Circle wedge instead of repeating names, so a short guest list still gets plenty of stage time — this one comes round more than ten-out-of-sixty-nine would suggest.