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NCBI ROFL: How is beer pong different from beer bong?

Explore drinking games through a novel categorization scheme revealing distinct types and their impacts on college student drinking culture.

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When I was in college, there were three drinking games: beer pong, flip cup, and quarters. Apparently, there are now 100 distinct drinking games, including one called (unimaginatively) "Let's get fucked up". Although the point of all of them is, obviously, to get drunk, these scientists set out to see if there are differences between them, including how many drinks are drunk by the drunk participants while drinking.Are they all the same? An exploratory, categorical analysis of drinking game types. Drinking games have become a ubiquitous part of the college student drinking culture and are associated with drinking to intoxication and increased alcohol consequences. Contemporary research commonly considers drinking games holistically, with little to no consideration to the different drinking game types. The current study describes the creation of a novel DG categorization scheme and reports differences between DG categories. Participants were 3421 college students (58% female) who completed online ...

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