The Iron Chef Drinking Game

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This is a great really simple drinking game, and all you need for it is cable and a bunch of beer. The rules are easy enough that a bunch of drunk folk will have no trouble remembering them, and you can play with as many people as can fit in front of your TV (which, if you play it in a dorm room like me, is about 6).

If you've never watched Iron Chef, these rules will make very little sense, so before playing, watch it once. It's a weird ass show. Chairman Kaga (who looks like a japanese Hugh Hefner) chooses a theme ingredient, and the challenger chef choses an Iron chef to cook against. After an hour, a panel of second-rate japanese celebrities judges the meals, and declares a winner. It's good fun.

What you need:

  • Cable, with the Food Network

  • A TV

  • A whole lot of beer

  • Snacks, because the show makes you mad hungry


The rules:
  • Take one swig of beer every time anyone (on TV or otherwise) says the name of the theme ingredient

  • Take one swig of beer any time the TV says "Fukui-San"

  • Take an extra swing if the "Fukui-San" is followed by "Yes, Ota?"

  • Finish your beer if the theme ingredient is shown or mentioned in a commercial (this can be trouble if the ingredient is something common, like lobster, but usually it isn't)


This game will get you loaded really fast, because the name of the theme ingredient is said all the goddamn time, so pay attention and tell people to shut the hell up so you can hear the TV. Probably the most brutal part of this game is the announcement of the dishes. "This dish is an x pasta with x sauce and x garnish, with x salad and x dressing, followed by x drink." It's like that, but even longer. You will be consuming many beers within the hour that the show is on. And if anyone tells you that they've played this game with shots, they are lying, because they would be dead. Unless they're a zombie, in which case you should carefully heed their warnings about playing this game with shots. And watch your brains, because zombies love to eat delicious, tender brains. Now that would make for one hell of a theme ingredient.