It might be best to do this while watching a {{walkthrough}}, since playing ''Halo 4'' drunk likely won't assist your performance.

* Take a shot every time John-117 has to [[UnplannedManualDetonation do something manually that was expected]] to be done automated.
* Take a shot every time John-117 falls unconscious.
* Take a shot every time Cortana's rampancy causes her to distort a word.
** Take two if it's the entire sentence.
** Take a drink whenever she messes up John's visor.
* Take a drink every time [[GeneralFailure Captain Del Rio]] makes a dumb decision [[WhatTheHellHero that others question]].
** Down your drink (not recommended with anything too strong) when [[spoiler:John, Cortana and ''his entire crew'' flip him off and refuse to follow his orders]].
* Take a shot whenever [[TheQuietOne John]] [[SuddenlySpeaking speaks during gameplay outside of a cutscene]].
* Take a drink every time [[spoiler:the Didact]] sends John an arrogant telepathic taunt.
* Take a drink every time [[spoiler:the Didact's Cryptum]] scans things with its [[BuffySpeak orange wave-thing]].
** Except during the final Mantis battle on the outside of the ''Infinity'', or you'll be dead.
* Take a drink every time someone says "the Mantle".
** Take two if they call it "the Mantle of Responsibility".
* Take a drink every time the Mantis's shield is kept from recharging because of another annoying enemy.
* Take a drink if you've prepared for a Hunter encounter by carrying a heavy weapon, but it's only enough to deal with one Hunter.
* Take a drink every time your Broadsword crashes.
** Take two if it respawns you in a hard-to-escape spot.
* Take a drink every time you must try to defeat [[GoddamnedBats Watchers]] with a spray-and-pray weapon.
** Take another drink for every Watcher you actually defeat.
* Take a drink every time you stock up on rockets only to have to fight against [[GoddamnedBats Crawlers]].
** Take two if you take some time to decide on whether you want to waste these precious rockets.
** Take three if you chose to melee them instead.
** Drink ''the whole damn bottle'' if you choose to melee them on Legendary.
* Take a drink every time a Promethean Knight kills you.
** Take two if it was by teleporting without you noticing.
* Take a drink every time someone calls the scientists "eggheads". You'll get just one sip on Campaign, and be dead on Spartan Ops.
* Take every drink for every time on Spartan Ops when your online teammates shoot the vehicle that picks you up.
** Two if they use a vehicle weapon or you shoot the vehicle.
* Take a drink every time Spartan Palmer is sarcastic or being a DeadpanSnarker.
** Take a shot whenever Palmer refers to scientists as "eggheads".
* Take a drink for the amount of times you die from a Fuel Rod Cannon. You will DIE on Spartan Ops.
* Take a drink every time your teammates in Spartan Ops destroy Wraiths they could just steal instead and dominate everything.
* Take a drink for the amount of times you die from disintegration; 1 shot for every Binary rifle/Scattershot death, 2 for every Incinerator Cannon death, and 3 for every Pulse Grenade death.
* Down your drink whenever the Composer is activated. This isn't part of the game, [[NightmareFuel/{{Halo}} it's a suggestion to help with the horror]].
* Take a drink every time you manage to perform an assassination.
** Take two if you manage to kill a Watcher via assassination.
** Down your drink if you are killed during the animation for an assassination.