Drinking games & pub games, properly explained
Rules for the classics, the pub staples, and DartUp's own four game modes. No PDF scrolling, no half-remembered house rules.
18+. Every game here works fine on soft drinks too.
On a dartboard
DartUp's own four modes, plus what to do with any board on the wall.
Dart Up Mode
The mode DartUp's built around. Throw a dart, do what the section says, pass it on. House rule: first to five completed forfeits wins — or skip the score and just play rounds.
Read the rules →Team Up Mode
Same board, different target. In Team Up mode, whatever your dart lands on, the other team does it — and you get to pick who.
Read the rules →Beer Darts Mode
Not the outdoor game with a can on a stake — DartUp's Beer Darts runs entirely off the board. One throw gives you a number, then the game plays itself.
Read the rules →301 Darts, With a Drinking Rule
Straight darts scoring, played properly, with one house drinking rule: miss the board completely, take a drink. Add your own on top if your table wants more.
Read the rules →How to Turn Any Dartboard Into a Drinking Game
Any dartboard can run a drinking game. The board doesn't need to be special — you're building the rules on top of it, not inside it.
Read the rules →Darts Drinking Games: 5 Ways to Play
Darts already has the throw. These five game types turn that throw into a drinking game, from dead simple to properly structured.
Read the rules →Darts Games: 5 Classic Variants
Darts didn't start as a drinking game — it's a proper pub sport with its own set of variants, most of which need nothing but a board, darts, and someone willing to keep score. Here are five worth knowing, from a five-minute pub game to a proper structured match.
Read the rules →One board runs all four modes.
69 forfeits printed on it, darts in the box, from £24.99.
The classics
The ones everyone half-remembers. Full rules, no arguments.
Kings Cup Rules
One deck of cards, one empty cup, and a set of rules that turn every card into an order. Kings Cup is the drinking game most people already half-know.
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Waterfall Rules
No cards, no board, no setup. Waterfall is just a chain reaction round a table — once it starts, nobody controls their own pace.
Read the rules →Beer Pong
A table, some cups, and a ping pong ball. Beer pong rewards a steady arm and punishes a wobbly table.
Read the rules →21 Drinking Game Rules
No cards, no board, just a circle and a count. 21 is the drinking game that turns basic arithmetic into a proper standoff — here's the full rule set, the strategy behind it, and the variants worth trying.
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15 Drinking Game Forfeits You Can Actually Print
Not every drinking game needs a purpose-built board. These 15 forfeits work dropped into Kings Cup, Waterfall, dartboard games — anything with a "do a forfeit" slot.
Read the rules →Classic Pub Games (Darts Included)
British pubs have run on the same handful of games for decades. Darts is the one most locals still have hanging on the wall.
Read the rules →10 Best Pub Games in the UK, Ranked
British pubs have quietly run on the same shortlist of games for a century. Some are thriving, some are down to a handful of survivors. Here's an honest ranking of ten, darts included.
Read the rules →Two-Player Drinking Games
Most drinking games assume a full table. These are built for two — a date night, a flatmate catch-up, or just the pair of you and a bottle of wine.
Read the rules →160 Most Likely To Questions
Most Likely To needs no cards, no board, no setup — just a question and a room full of people willing to point fingers. It's also one of DartUp's 69 printed forfeits, so if you've already got a board, you know the drill. Here's the full question bank, sorted so you can match it to whoever's actually in the room.
Read the rules →Occasions & gifts
Freshers, stags, tailgates, office Christmas — and what to buy the darts fan.
Freshers Week Party Games
September means a kitchen full of people who don't know each other yet. These are the games that get a flat talking fastest.
Read the rules →Freshers Week Drinking Games
Freshers week means a flat full of people who met an hour ago. These are the drinking games that actually work when nobody's got an in-joke yet — and what to do about the housemate who isn't drinking.
Read the rules →Stag Do Games
Nobody wants to be the best man frantically Googling games at 11pm the night before. This is a shortlist that works in an Airbnb, a hotel room, or a beer garden, and needs no craft supplies.
Read the rules →Garden Party Games
A garden party mixes ages and audiences in a way a Saturday night doesn't. These work with a Pimm's or a squash in hand, no explaining required.
Read the rules →Office Christmas Party Games
The office Christmas party has one job: be fun with your boss two feet away, and leave nobody explaining themselves over email in January. These clear that bar.
Read the rules →College Party Games
Dorm rooms and off-campus houses run the same short list of games every weekend of the semester. Not because nobody's creative — because a game everyone already half-knows is the whole point on a random Tuesday before a quiz you didn't study for. Here are nine that actually get played, from icebreakers for a floor that just moved in together to the stuff that shows up at every house party from homecoming to finals week.
Read the rules →Tailgate Drinking Games
Tailgate lots run on portability. Whatever you bring has to survive a truck bed, set up in the time it takes to crack the first beer, and pack down again before kickoff. These eight are the games that actually earn a spot in the cooler-and-folding-chairs lineup, not the ones that look good in a highlight reel and then never come out of the trunk.
Read the rules →Beer Olympics Rules
A Beer Olympics is a house party wearing a tracksuit — teams, an opening ceremony, and a scoreboard turn a normal night of games into an actual event people train for, badly, in the week before. Here's how to structure one properly: team setup, scoring, six classic events, and the ceremony bits that make it feel like more than just beer pong with extra steps.
Read the rules →World Cup 2026 Drinking Games
The World Cup only comes around every four years, and 2026's the first with 48 teams, hosted across the US, Mexico, and Canada, with the final landing on July 19 at MetLife Stadium. Whether you're watching from a UK living room at a stupid kickoff hour or a US sports bar at a normal one, these rules turn any match into a drinking game — no need to wait for a specific fixture.
Read the rules →Gifts for Darts Fans
Darts fans are easy to buy for and easy to buy badly for — a generic dartboard off a supermarket shelf says you didn't think about it. These are the gifts that actually land.
Read the rules →All 69 forfeits, ring by ring
Every wedge on the DartUp board, what it asks, and how people survive it.
Printable rules & the free Party Pack
The rules booklet as a PDF, plus a printable forfeit sheet and a five-game cheat sheet.