The four-hour ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' drinking game . Before thou sayeth goodbye to thine liver; make sure the drink is not poisoned, like at the end of the play.
* Chug a beer for a soliloquy.
* Drink whenever a [[CountryMatters vagina joke]] is made.
* Drink whenever a famous actor is clearly shoehorned into the movie.
* Drink whenever a flashback or scene clearly not in the original text happens.
* Do a shot every time Creator/BrianBlessed appears onscreen. Take a sip of beer every time Creator/KennethBranagh is clearly trying to out-ham him.
* Drink whenever Gérard Depardieu says "My lord".
* Drink whenever someone enters/exits through a secret door.
* Do a shot for every major character who dies in the final scene.
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For the play in general:\\\
Take ''only a sip'' whenever
* Someone tells a lie.
** Two sips if it's Hamlet being lied to.
*** Toast if Hamlet easily sees through the lie.
Take a drink whenever
* A new [[RedShirt expendable character]] appears.
* Horatio says "my lord."
* Ophelia says "my lord."
* Claudius uses the RoyalWe.
* Polonius is about to stop talking . . . [[OldWindbag and then doesn't]].
* Hamlet [[ShoutOut compares someone to a mythological figure]].
Take a chug whenever
* [[{{Infodump}} Someone reads from a paper]].
* A messenger is sent.
* Claudius says something [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial embarrassingly suspicious]].
* Ophelia's chastity is mentioned.
* Hamlet solioquizes.
* Someone dies.
* [[OminousForeshadowing Fortinbras is mentioned]] (finish the bottle and cry when he appears).