Maybe you’ve shown up late to the party and you’re more sober than everyone else. Maybe you just got back from a long day of work and you need to clear your head. Maybe your ex-girlfriend Patricia has found a new man and they’re posting pics on Instagram together (and you never could shake off the fact that they hit their 1-year anniversary even though you two only broke up 10 months ago).

Whatever reason you may have, there are completely legitimate situations in which you will need a drinking game for just you. We’ve compiled a list of our favourite drinking games for those occasions.

Red or Black

Materials Needed:

A standard deck of playing cards

Litres of beer

Instructions:

Shuffle the deck of cards and then place the deck face down in front of you. The goal is to guess the colour of the card at the top of the deck. Guess the colour and flip the top card. If you are incorrect, take a drink. If you are correct, assign a drink to yourself.

If you don’t have a deck of cards, this game can be played by yelling out either “Red!” or “Black!” and downing your drink at an aggressive pace.

Dead Solo Cup

Materials Needed:

1 Red Solo Cup

1 Ping Pong Ball

Beer

Instructions:

Fill a red solo cup with beer about half-way. Place the red solo cup about two arms-lengths away from you on a flat surface. Attempt to throw the ping pong ball into the cup. Once you get the ball in the cup, you must chug the beer in the cup and refill. Continue to repeat until either you are satisfied with your level of drunkenness or uncomfortable with your level of drunkenness.

After several tries of missing the cup (because its hard to see the target with tears in your eyes), you are allowed to move the cup closer towards you.

The Jäg-R-Bomb

Materials Needed:

A cellphone

A shot glass

Jaegermeister

Instructions:

Go into your ‘Contacts’ section of your phone. Proceed to text every contact asking them to “hang out tonight”. For every person who doesn’t respond to you within the hour, or leaves your message as “read”, take a shot of Jaegermeister. Double shots if you’ve had prior relations with them in the bedroom.

If you’re the type of person to read this article, this may take a few bottles.

Selfie-Slosh

Materials Needed:

A cellphone

The “Instagram” app

Beer

Instructions:

Go onto your phone and open up Instagram. Navigate to the explore page and click into the first post starting at the top-right. Scroll down after drinks have been taken for each pic. Take drinks based on the following scoring:

1 for clothed selfies of a girl/guy

1 for cat/dog pictures or memes

2 for half-naked selfies of a girl/guy

2 for pictures of food

3 for self-depreciating memes

5 for drinking-based memes

Once you are adequately sloshed, proceed to direct-message your ex, professing your love for him/her. Sharon why did you cheat on me?

The Echo Chamber

Materials Needed:

An overwhelming sense of despair

The highest ABV beer you can find

Instructions:

Take a drink whenever you say “drink”. After you finish each drink, you must say the word “drink”.

Having trouble deciding which beers to chug back? Check out our list of the Top 10 Beers for Degenerates as Proven by Science.