When playing, take a drink when any of the following happens:
- You have to translate...
- a Captain Obvious statement.
- a stupid question, e.g. "is an egg a vegetable?".
- a sentence about animals doing human things.
- a sentence with an Animate Inanimate Object.
- a Shout-Out. Another drink if it references a meme.
- a sentence that makes no sense.
- a sentence with Accidental Innuendo. Take another drink if the discussion for the sentence is locked.
- a sentence spoken by a character that doesn't fit it, e.g. a middle-aged man saying that he's your granddaughter.
- a morbid sentence. Take another drink if it's illustrated with a happy character saying it.
- an insult. Another drink if it looks like you're being insulted by some smiling character.
- a really long sentence.
- a sentence involving someone in a fridge.
- You meet any of the following characters: the astronaut, the talking bear, the talking dolphin.
- You get a ridiculously easy multiple choice one-word translation exercise, e.g. "how do you say planet" with the choices being "il y a", "planète" and "ciel".
- You get a translation exercise wrong because you messed up the grammar of your native language.
- You accidentally write your answer in the wrong language.
- You accidentally speak the wrong language during a speaking exercise. Another drink if you pass the exercise anyway.
- You say some nonsense or just make random noises during a speaking exercise and pass it anyway.
- If you lose your streak and the app offers a streak restore, sadly take as many drinks as how many dollars the streak freeze costs. If you aren't offered a streak restore, just down the whole glass.
- A chatbot asks you if you want to do X, you say you don't, and the bot forces you to do X anyway.
- You give a rude answer to a chatbot and get rewarded with "Good answer! +1 XP" (take 1 drink) or "Great answer! +2 XP" (take 2 drinks) anyway.
- Down the whole glass if you take a "Test Out" and fail.
- Sadly down the glass when you run out of lives.
When reading the comment sections of exercises or other Duolingo-related media, drink when...
- Someone asks whether Duolingo will make you fluent in a language (spoiler: it won't).
- Someone makes a post just to tell you that they finished a tree or that they have a long streak.
- Someone mentions losing their long streak.
- Someone argues about whether a certain answer should be accepted.
- Someone says "Duolingo should get a [language] course" or something to that effect.
- Another drink every time someone asks for Japanese, Chinese or Arabic.
- Another drink if it's an off-topic message in a completely unrelated thread.
- Another drink if it's a dead language.
- Another drink if it's a conlang from some work of fiction.
- Another drink if the comment says something along the lines of "Duolingo has [language X], so why aren't we getting [language Y]?!".
- Someone asks "when will [feature or language] be available for the iOS/Android/web version?" or "when will [feature] be available for [language]?".
- Someone complains about the strange sentences.
- Make it two if you're doing the Irish course and the comment mentions Pól.
- A course gets postponed.
- Someone asks which language they should learn.
- Someone complains about Health and/or Gems.
- Someone complains about the amount of work added in the crown update. Another drink if they complain about losing their golden tree.
- Someone complains about a feature being removed in an update.
- If you're on their Instagram and you really feel like destroying your liver:
- Someone begs Duolingo to return their family.
- Another drink for the comments that mock this meme and/or call it dead.
