{"id":3118,"date":"2012-04-03T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:31:50","slug":"thirsty-games-the-hunger-games-drinking-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/03\/thirsty-games-the-hunger-games-drinking-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirsty Games – The Hunger Games Drinking Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note from HNG: Hey Nerds and Nerdettes, your favorite virtual drinking buddy is back! \u00a0You may remember Vivian’s fantastic <\/strong><\/em>Firefly<\/strong>\u00a0Drinking Game post (or not, depending on how drunk you got while playing it) and this time she’s created a <\/strong><\/em>Hunger Games<\/strong> Drinking Game that will make you Rue the day you didn’t drink while reading it (what? too soon?) \u00a0So without further ado, heeeeeeere\u2019s Vivian!<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hey there! Guest Nerd Girl Vivian again. Since you were all so incredibly supportive of my last admission of addiction, I thought I\u2019d share another one with you. And that is\u2026 books. Books are great. Books are underappreciated. And books are sexy. There\u2019s a vicious cycle that I\u2019ve been caught in for many, many years. It goes something like this:<\/p>\n

Step 1: Fall in love with a book.<\/p>\n

Step 2: Find out a movie is being made based on said book, and get very excited.<\/p>\n

Step 3: Be disappointed with the movie.<\/p>\n

In case of sequels, repeat.<\/p>\n

And so it was with The Hunger Games<\/em>. I was a little late to this party, and I didn\u2019t start the first book until just a few months ago. But I made up for my tardiness with unabashed, obnoxiously vocal adoration. I was that person who worked \u201cthat\u2019s like when Katniss\u2026\u201d into every conversation. If woman and young adult literature could wed, I would ask these books to be mine forever. And we would honeymoon in District 7.<\/p>\n

I was so devoted to the books that I resisted watching the movie trailers or clips, or looking at the casting choices, until I\u2019d finished the series. (I had the same strategy for the Harry Potter movies, which only lasted through about four of them before I caved.) I just didn\u2019t want anyone else\u2019s images in my head, and I also didn\u2019t want to be disappointed. But then, immediately after finishing the third book, I did watch the trailer, and\u2026 daaaaammmn. It was so beautiful. And thrilling. I don\u2019t think I exhaled through the whole thing. And my expectations for the movie shot sky high. To be fair, I was not actually disappointed by the film. I loved it. I had issues with it, but when a movie focuses on a girl whose major personality trait is her inability to outwardly express her thoughts and feelings, a lot of the book\u2019s magic will inevitably be lost, and I accept that. Overall, the movie served as a sort of Cliffs Notes companion to a book I can\u2019t get enough of. So I enjoyed every minute of it. (Well, almost every minute. I found Cinna\u2019s scenes maddeningly boring and those damn CGI mutts were doomed to suck. Also, \u201cenjoyed\u201d is a really strange word to use when describing a movie about kid killing.)<\/p>\n

So this one-trick capitol-engineered pony is back, with a new literary drinking game for all of you who love these books like I do, and for those who just want an excuse to drink alone. Cause why should drinking games be reserved for movies? Answer: they shouldn\u2019t. I suppose that this could feasibly be played with the film, but as a friend of mine so harshly put it \u201cthe alcohol intake would be just as watered down as the emotional impact of the movie.\u201d Zing. So, really, enjoy a book. And a beer. Let your young adult fiction flag fly. (Note: This game is specifically based on the first book. I don\u2019t think it would carry over to the other two very well. Or prove me wrong.)<\/p>\n

Let the First Annual Thirsty Games begin! And may the odds be ever in your favor!<\/p>\n

Drink when:<\/p>\n

Katniss fires an arrow. This seemed like the logical place to start. Drink twice if she misses her target.<\/p>\n

Drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyone uses the words \u201cGirl on Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone climbs a tree.<\/p>\n

There's a lot of time spent hanging out in trees. Maybe next time, bring a book. And a beer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Katniss has a foodgasm. Suzanne Collins spends whole pages describing those meals, and it\u2019s one of my favorite things about the book that really couldn\u2019t be adequately conveyed in the film.<\/p>\n

Katniss expresses na\u00efve statements about not understanding her feelings for Peeta or Gale. Oh, the wonderful romantic confusion of young love triangles… whilst trapped in an arena of death, broadcast to an entire nation. Sure, not an easy situation; but still, that girl is as dense as District 12 bread.<\/p>\n

She mentions her mother\u2019s depression. Cause, ya know, just drink away those my-husband-was-killed-in-a-mining-accident-and-now-my-daughters-and-I-are-going-to-starve blues.<\/p>\n

Katniss (or anyone, if you\u2019re going all out) incurs bodily injury (but doesn\u2019t die).<\/p>\n

Drink twice for emotional injury described as physical pain. Katniss is so emotionally closed off that feeling feelings gives her chest pain and makes her throat close up. That’s my kind of girl.<\/p>\n

Drink when Haymitch drinks. Drink twice when he vomits.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the big one: Drink for each tribute projected in the sky. That first night is a doozy!<\/p>\n

And, just for funsies, some\u00a0themed drinks!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Capitol<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 part Goldschlager<\/p>\n

2 parts Sprite<\/p>\n

1 dash grenadine<\/p>\n

serve in a highball or martini glass, rimmed with pink\/green\/some unnaturally artificially colored sugar<\/p>\n

Girl on Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>3\/4 shot of Amaretto (almond liqueur)<\/p>\n

Top off with Barcardi 151.<\/p>\n

Light the shot on fire. (Yes, light it on fire. Be careful, please.)<\/p>\n

Drop the shot in a half-filled pint glass of beer, and down the whole thing.<\/p>\n

The Haymitch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gin.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note from HNG: Hey Nerds and Nerdettes, your favorite virtual drinking buddy is back! \u00a0You may remember Vivian’s fantastic Firefly\u00a0Drinking Game post (or not, depending on how drunk you got while playing it) and this time she’s created a Hunger Games Drinking Game that will make you Rue the day you didn’t drink while reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[350,380,413,442,450,534,733,951,963],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cooking-recipes","tag-gale-hawthorne","tag-girl-on-fire","tag-haymitch","tag-hot-nerd-girl","tag-hunger-games-drinking-game","tag-katniss-everdeen","tag-peeta-mellark","tag-the-capitol","tag-the-hunger-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}