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Palynig thsi game whileyer etiding ain't reckommemmed, ruhmockended, recmoemndde...ish a bad idea! *hic*

Note: Choose any ten items on the list. If you're foolish enough to play with all of them, it will ruin your liver. And that would be bad. how bad?


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  • First of all, stay on this page and take a drink for every drinking game related to the Troper Tales namespace, which doesn't exist anymore.
  • Take a sip every time you see The Dreaded Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment mentioned.
  • Take a shot for every Averted Trope you find.
  • Down half a Guinness whenever the wiki spoils something you were already viewing/playing/reading/learning on your own and didn't want to know before it was the due time.
    • Finish the Guinness and spoiler mark the offending entry if it gets treated like an It Was His Sled.
    • On the other hand, take a self-deprecatory swig of something unpleasant if it was spoilered, but you read it anyway because you assumed you already knew what the spoiler was going to be.
    • Alternatively, drink until you forget what the spoiler was.
  • Take a six-pack when you see a brand new example on the top of the page.
    • So that's 2 six-packs so far.
      • Let's turn this into a Running Gag and keep count below.
      • Right here.
      • Do note that the reason that this hasn't been updated for several weeks is that troper # 2 died from the sheer volumes of their beer intake on that fateful night.
  • Take a hearty swig every time you can guess the trope that an example links to.
    • This rule on its own could be enough to kill a Genre Savvy troper. Proceed with caution if you decide to use this rule.
    • Do the same for pot holes.
  • Take a sip every time a troper puts "enough said" rather than an actual context... Or if you come across the phrase "Three guesses, the first two don't count".
    • Two sips if you don't get it.
      • Three if you do.
      • Four if you do and it's wrong.
      • Five if somebody else elaborates while subtly snarking at the original edit's lack of context.
      • Back to three if they don't subtly snark.
  • Take a sip for every trope page with a header quote from:
  • Pour your drink into another glass and take a sip if the page contains a link to itself.
  • Take a sip for every example that misuses the words "subverted", "inverted", "averted", or "justified".
    • Take a sip for every example that starts with "parodied" and reads exactly like a straight use of the trope.
    • Use a sippy straw if the word "partially" comes before one of those words.
  • Take a sip every time a trope is subverted/averted/deconstructed "brutally" or "painfully".
    • Or "wonderfully", "brilliantly,", or "gloriously", and another sip if the example is actually completely ordinary.
    • Take an extra sip for "subverted/averted/deconstructed hard." If "hard" isn't in italics, bold, and/or CAPS LOCK, you don't even need to bother.
      • Chug if the trope is actually being played completely straight.
  • (Take a swig when you see an explanation written in parentheses by an inexperienced troper.)
    • Take two if you used to do it.
      • Take three if reading this taught you that putting explanations in parentheses is improper.
      • Down a glass if the entire page is written like this.
  • Take a sip when something is said to be "Lampshaded" because a trope was simply mentioned in the work, but not because it was actually pointed out in an attempt to hide it.
    • Take another if you take issue with calling Lampshade Hanging "an attempt to hide" a trope.
  • Take a sip for every Pot Holed Take That!.
  • Make someone else take a sip if they look at this from behind your back.
    • Two sips if that person is your employer. Then quick link to Oh, Crap!.
  • Take a sip whenever someone compares something to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • Similar to the above, take a sip whenever someone says something "wouldn't be out of place in Silent Hill".
  • Take a sip for every article that references Applied Phlebotinum, Lampshade Hanging, The Oldest Ones in the Book, or some other essential piece of wiki lore without linking to the relevant article.
  • Take a sip while tilting your head sideways every time somebody doesn't italicize a series title. Then correct it.
    • Alternatively, every time somebody italicizes a musician/band name or a song title, even though this is reserved for album titles.
  • Take a big gulp whenever the Red Shirt Army is mentioned in a trope example scenario.
    • And another if the Big Bad is mentioned.
  • Take a sip every time you see a trope red-texted by a misspelling; then correct it.
    • And then take another sip, because, being stone-drunk from playing the game, it'll be even more horribly misspelled.
    • Chug when accidental (and unnecessarily-spaced) red text is created by a non-trope word — like McDonald.
  • And speaking of The Game... take a sip every time you lose. Then take another if a particular mention of The Game also mentions the liberating xkcd strip.
  • Shout "Kanpai!" and take a sip every time somebody uses the Japanese name for an anime or manga instead of the English name.
  • If you're American, take a sip every time you see British spelling; if you follow British spelling, take half a sip every time you see American spelling. Take two every time you read a trope that has both 'colour' and 'color' in it. If it has both 'cheque' and 'check', hold a glass high and sing "Rule, Britannia!" or "America the Beautiful" (whichever one you don't live in).
    • Getting your friends and/or family to join in is optional.
    • If you don't live in either, sing both, one after the other, in whatever order you choose.
      • If you're Australian, sing 'Advance Australia Fair', and then switch midway into 'Waltzing Matilda' when you suddenly remember you don't know half the words of the national anthem.
    • Alternatively, sing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" if British, and "God Save the Queen" if American.
      • Pointless trivia: The title of the American version is "America." (Also, take a drink whenever someone corrects a comment in a new bullet instead of just correcting the original comment.)
    • If you're Canadian, take a drink for both American and British spelling. You use both, you drink to both. And then sing either national anthem.
      • Or your own, in both official languages.
      • Drink another time if you are able to sing it in Inuktitut.
      • And once more if you know "The Maple Leaf Forever."
    • Then take a sip for every time someone mixes up you're and your. Not for any good reason, just because it's the only way to deal with it.
    • Or, alternatively, feel free to belt out "YOU'RE A..." [large sip] "...GRAND OLD..." [gulp] "...RAG, YOU'RE A..." [slurp] "...HIGH-FLYING..." [swig] "RAAAAAAAAAAG~" if it happens more than twice for British spelling. Whether you're British or not.
    • Take a sip every time somebody edits just to change American spelling/punctuation to British or vice versa.
    • If you're American, take a drink for every usage of "Rubbish" or "Dreadful"; or if you're British, take a drink for every usage of "Awful" or "Crappy"
    • If you're American, take a drink for every phrase going "[X place] in [X English town], [X English county]" that doesn't state it's in the United Kingdom. Screw it, the ambulance can't save you.
  • Take a sip every time an example is given without a link.
  • Take a sip every time This Troper shows up to give a very subjective opinion and/or relate an anecdote from their own life (and you're not in Troper Tales).
    • Down the glass if you see Troper Tales mentioned anywhere that isn't this page.
    • Take another sip if the troper in question gives their name or links to their contributor page.
    • Drink the whole glass if another This Troper replies to agree/disagree with the opinion or to say that something similar happened to them, too.
      • Or if the original troper is just saying that the trope has happened to him, and doesn't even have an anecdote.
      • This Troper had to take a drink there. Just sayin'
    • Take another sip if "This Troper" is actually a pothole link to someone's contributor page.
    • Take two sips if This Troper relates how shocked, SHOCKED, they are that an example from their favorite series hasn't already been added.
      • Take three sips if This Troper was right to expect said example to be mentioned sooner.
      • Finish the bottle if said example has been mentioned already.
      • Two bottles if you were the one to add the example and forgot about it.
      • Three if has been mentioned before and the reason it's not there anymore was because it wasn't a real example.
      • Four if you haven't yet died of alcohol poisoning.
      • For the personal safety of those who actually want to try this drinking game, change "bottle" in the above four steps to "glass". And for that matter, omit the last one entirely.
      • If you don't care about the personal safety of those trying this drinking game, suggest they trade up. If they want to try it with beer, suggest Jack Daniels as an alternative. If they want to try it with Jack Daniels, suggest absinthe. If they want to try it with absinthe, call the men in the white coats.
    • However you're playing, double your intake if there's a Pot Hole to Casablanca when the troper is talking about how shocked they are.
  • Take a drink every time a page lists Crowning Music of Awesome on a given page with some variation of the phrase "the whole soundtrack."
  • Take a sip every time a troper replies to and contradicts a previous troper in a trope example. Then correct it.
    • Actually, you're supposed to bang two glasses together and sip once from each.
  • Take a drink for every example that consists of "Two Words: <something>".
    • Also take a drink for each example that consists of "<something>. Full Stop."
    • Also take a drink for each example that consists of "<something>. That is all."
    • Also take a drink for each example that consists of "<something>. Nuff Said."
    • Also take a drink for each example that consists of "<something>. There, I said it."
    • Also drink for "X has this in spades". Two drinks if there's nothing else there.
    • Also drink for "X is the king of this trope". Three if it's "the undisputed king of this trope".
    • Also drink for "X is made of this trope".
    • Also drink for "X breathes this trope".
    • Also drink if it's "X Just X".
    • Take two drinks if the X is a potholed quote or character name rather than a title.
    • Drain your glass if you can't actually puzzle out what exactly is being referred to without mouse-overing the link.
    • Take a drink for an example that consists of "<something>, anyone?", anyone?
      • And pour yourself another if you still can't figure out what the two "obvious" words mean when you have viewed the pothole. Same if there is no pothole.
      • Take a sip if it links to Two Words: Added Emphasis or X Just X.
      • Drink the bottle if you figured it out and feel superior for it.
    • Drink the bottle if it's really three words.
    • Take a sip if the example says "Full stop" or "Nuff said" ...but then still continues on after that with an explanation anyway. (Doesn't count if it's a sub-point that starts with something like "For the benefit of those not familiar, we'll explain it anyway..." Though, in truth, this probably also deserves a sip.)
    • Drain your entire glass if This Troper writes "Said X (was totally Y!)".
  • Take a drink if you started getting confused by the game right about here.
  • Take a drink if an example that has 'Where to start?' or 'Where to begin?' followed by a long list of examples under it.
    • Take two if it does this with a shortlist.
  • Take a gulp if anything is described as "the poster child for this trope."
  • Take a sip if you have to uncover a spoiler in order to understand why a certain example is on the trope page.
    • Take three sips if it's an anime series.
      • If you feel like going to the hospital, this page will certainly help.
    • Drain the whole glass if it's something you actually have seen.
    • Take a sip if you had to uncover this to read it. note 
    • Chug if the spoilered thing is something that people who've never even seen the work in question knows. The site's various running gags (such as hiding the fact that Jesus dies in spoiler tags) are optional.
    • Like fucking solitaire?
    • The cake is a lie.
  • Chug if the fact that a series is mentioned on a certain page is a spoiler by itself.
    • Chug again if the spoilery information implied by the series' mere presence is spelled out in a spoiler, as if you couldn't figure it out from "<series> has an example of <trope>".
    • Chug again if the example is entirely spoiler-tagged.
  • If any spoiler reveals something you really didn't want spoiled, give a Big "NO!", then immediately drink yourself into unconsciousness. When you wake up with a hangover the following morning, you might no longer remember the offending spoiler!
    • Bonus round if the spoiler is tagged but you were editing the page and saw it anyway.
  • Take a sip for every trope that's identified as an anime-specific trope (either in the article itself, or because the article is solely indexed under Japanese Something Tropes or Anime Tropes) even though its list of Western examples is as long or longer than the list of anime examples.
    • Take two sips if Supernatural is one of the examples listed and then send the link to anyone who wants to know why it's getting turned into an anime.
  • Chug a glass of water if one of the page's category bars has no "next" or "previous" links.
  • Take a sip for every trope page with an image from:
  • Take a sip for every image with a time display in the upper left corner (e.g., if it came out of a fansub derived from a Japanese TV broadcast).
  • Take a glass everytime a page image has no link.
    • Take a BIG drink everytime a picture leads to a broken link.
  • Take a swig whenever the image is completely meaningless to you.
  • Take a chug whenever an image has a DivX watermark in the corner.
  • Take a sip for every image without a link to the page of the series it came from. Then fix it, if possible.
  • Take a sip from someone else's glass for every image not hosted on TV Tropes.
    • Drink the whole glass if it now shows a "no hotlinking" image.
      • Drink yourself into unconsciousness if the "no hotlinking" image is a Shock Site.
  • Take a sip when you see an image you've seen on another page.
  • Take a sip when an image's caption says the character in it is "this trope's patron saint".
    • Take a sip when an image "shows us how it's done".
  • Take a chug if a page contains more than one image.
  • Take a sip for every time "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer is invoked, and an extra one if the description of the "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer-worthy element is potholed to that page.
    • Take a long drink every time, because "I Am Not Making This Up" is no longer a wiki-link, sentences like the above now seem to be missing a very key phrase.
    • A shorter one if it just leads to a [[Broken pothole]] (visible brackets).
  • Take two sips every time something is called a Narm even though it doesn't actually make the scene funny.
  • Drink the whole glass one sip at a time if somebody potholes everysingle lettEr of a word.
  • Drink the whole glass if a trope from Discworld is mentioned and it isn't an example of a subversion.
  • Take a sip if an Irregular Webcomic! example mentions that the strip's commentary includes a link to this trope page.
    • Or Darths & Droids.
    • Take three sips if the example specifically mentions that the commentary does not link to TV Tropes.
  • Take a sip if an Order of the Stick or xkcd example refers to a strip less than three hours old.
    • Take another sip if you were about to add it yourself.
    • Take two more sips if the text refers to "a recent" or "the latest" strip but the strip is now more than three months old.
      • Finish the glass if you can't figure out which strip is referred to without an Archive Trawl
      • Finish another glass if you can't figure out which strip is referred to even with an Archive Trawl
      • Finish yet another glass if you did an Archive Trawl and then forgot why you were doing it in the first place (once you remember).
    • Triple the intake if an example not from either refers to something that happened less than one day ago.
      • Quintuple the intake if the strip is based on a current event.
  • Take a sip if a Warhammer 40,000 example is described as taking the trope to "extremes", "ridiculous levels" or up to eleven.
  • Take a drink if a Negima! Magister Negi Magi example mentions that it is actually a Shounen series that is made to look like an Unwanted Harem.
    • Take a drink of the first drink to pop into your head whenever someone links to chapter 165, page 8.
  • Take a sip for every instance of the phrase "notable aversion" or "notable exception."
    • Drain the whole bottle if you think the aversion actually is notable.
  • Take a sip from a friend's glass when you see the phrase "you are not alone". If you have no friends present (or no friends at all), immediately abandon the page you're on and continue the drinking game from Ineffectual Loner, Loners Are Freaks, or, if you are young and female, Shrinking Violet.
  • Take a sip if you see an unflattering reference to some work that goes out of the way to address the author/creator by name.
  • Take a sip if an example is mentioned as being "the absolute epitome of this trope"
    • Take another sip if there is no explanation or support for this claim.
  • Take a sip if someone says "Some people, This Troper included," letting you know they have a certain opinion, but totally aren't the only one they know that thinks that.
  • Take a sip every time the Trope Codifier is identified as the Trope Maker.
  • Take a sip every time the same trope is linked to twice in the same sentence, or in consecutive sentences.
  • Take zero sips for every aversion listed on a non-omnipresent trope.
  • Take a shot every time you see somebody Pot Hole a show using a character's name without actually giving the name of the show in text (making it impossible to search for the show on that page).
    • Take three shots and then juggle the glasses if somebody italicizes the show's name and then Pot Holes a character instead of, y'know, using the name of the show to link to the show's page.
  • Take a sip if an example lists by number the installments of a series that does not use Numbered Sequels, such as Fire Emblem.
  • Take a sip every time a foreign term is misused.
    • Take two sips if the misused term is from your native language.
    • Take two sips if a character in the show lampshades its misuse.
  • Take a loooooooong drink for every time someone is told to recite the MST3K Mantra, or whenever the mantra is referenced. Doesn't count on the actual page.
    • Take another drink if someone complains about it again nonetheless.
    • Take another drink if you feel that the question is an important one worth answering, and that the MST3K Mantra feels like a way of avoiding serious discussion.
      • Put that drink back if the MST3K Mantra is just there to move said lengthy discussion to the Headscratchers section.
      • Alternatively, slam the drink on your head if you think that justifies complaining about not doing the research on series that don't claim to be accurate.
  • Take a sip and then slam your head on the nearest hard, flat surface every time a Pot Hole gets broken up into multiple identical instances of the same link by an italicized word in the middle of it
  • Take a sip while leaning to the right for every example (especially on Crowning Moments) where the second half is written in italics to emphasize how amazing this example is.
  • Take a sip for every unexplained in-joke potholed to Memetic Mutation.
  • Take a chug every time a troper's comment is Pot Holed to Incredibly Lame Pun. Take a chug from a Klein bottle whenever a paradox is created by way of Pot Holing to Stealth Pun.
  • Take a sip if someone complains about not doing the research... on a series that is completely meant to be non-serious. It is guaranteed you will not survive within the hour.
  • Take a sip whenever someone confuses Character Derailment with Flanderization.
  • Take a drink whenever you see "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die."
    • Dunk your head in hot and cold water until you're sober if it's not all blue.
  • Take a swig of a completely different drink if the Trope Namer isn't an example of the trope.
  • Down a swig of hot chocolate if a Crowning Moment Of HeartWarming Troper Tale talks about someone in the third person ends with "Oh and by the way? That guy/girl was me!" or any variant.
  • Take a shot every time you go to a page where spoilers are a foregone conclusion, such as virtually all death tropes, yet someone still puts up spoiler tags. Take another if a majority of the page is like this and looks like a declassified government document.
  • Take a drink whenever someone *coughcoughs*.
  • Raise your glass to your mouth and then put it down in disappointment every time somebody links to a Youtube video which has since been removed from the site.
    • Drink it anyway if it is there, though, and if you look through the comments, take another drink if you see one from someone else mentioning that they got there from TV Tropes.
      • Or capitalizes the trope they got linked from and ends it with a bunch of exclamation marks.
      • Or the comment asks for a thumbs up from everyone reading it who also got there from TV Tropes (in other words, the comment is worded as "thumbs up if TV Tropes sent you here").
      • And to top it off, a sip for every thumb up. Call the ambulance before you start, though.
  • Take a drink every time someone potholes a mention of Catholicism to Christianity Is Catholic, even when it's not an example of the trope.
  • Take a sip when someone Pot Holes a word that doesn't relate to their example or the article, but, like, to what they were saying/how they said something.
    • Take two sips if the Pot Hole is to a different series which has nothing to do with the matter at hand, but they just felt like Entry Pimping, mmkay?
  • Take a drink every time xkcd 609 is mentioned/linked to. Including now.
    • A glass if it is an 'XKCD' cartoon. A bottle if it is 'Xkcd'.
      • A drink if it's "xkcd", maybe.
    • Take a picture of yourself taking a swig and send it in a thank-you card to Randall Munroe if #609 was the reason you discovered TV Tropes in the first place.
Take a bottle every time someone breaks the article formatting.
  • Take a drink every time the trope separators alternates between colon [:], parentheses [ () ] or a strike [-].
  • Take two sips every time you read the same example twice because somebody was clearly so convinced they had a perfect example that they didn't bother to read the page before "adding" it. Bonus sip if the example is mentioned in contradictory terms — as a straight example and then as a subversion, for example. Then, y'know, delete the duplicate.
  • Take a sip every time there's a link to the old version of 8-Bit Theater's archive. Don't bother fixing it, it'd take too long.
    • Take another for each link to the old Garfield archive.
  • Take a sip every time a Pot Hole leads to If You Know What I Mean instead of Double Entendre when talking about a Double Entendre.
  • Take a sip every time Neon Genesis Evangelion is mentioned in the same sentence as a pot hole leading to Mind Screw.
    • Take two if they actually use that word.
  • Take an entire barrel and commit suicide - by shooting yourself in the temple while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule - whenever you see someone invoking Troper's Law.
  • Take a swig whenever the article quote is just another example, but somebody put it at the top because they felt it was somehow "better".
  • Consume a bottle of tequila everytime you see that someone have used the word fuck as an edit reason in the Page History, and shed tears when you realize that it was directed against your own edits.
  • Take a sip every time an example is cited as the Trope Namer of some other trope.
    • Take two sips if it's a former Trope Namer due to renaming.
  • Inhale highly toxic alcoholic fumes whenever someone has mistaken TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game for Complaining About Edits You Don't Like.
    • Eat a pretzel or something if you read a Drinking Game entry about something you've never seen on the wiki.
  • Take two drinks every time you see a statement potholing to Understatement. Take another if it isn't one; most of them aren't.
  • If you give up on understanding the explanation of a trope at the top of the page and just scroll down to the first example you recognize, drink for as long as you scroll.
  • Take a shot every time Fanon is used as an example or to justify a trope.
  • Take a shot when you see an example on a series page that has been blatantly copy/pasted from its trope page, or vice-versa.
  • Take a shot every time a homosexuality trope is described as "played straight", with a note in brackets saying "though not that kind of straight" (or equivalent).
  • Take a drink every time someone on a Troper Tales page says "Are you me?", "Are you my twin?", "I don't remember writing this, yet I must have", or a variant thereof.
  • Take a drink whenever you come across "Bonus points" and "double points".
  • Finish the current bottle then open another if an example has very little or nothing to do with the trope and is only there as an excuse to sneer at the fans of the example's subject matter.
    • Take another long pull if the example IS valid, but the editor still can't resist getting in a dig at the fan base.
  • Take a sip whenever you see a non-empty page open with Describe Topic Here.
    • Finish the bottle if the next sentence is something like, "Hmm, where to start?"
      • Take a drink whenever you a see the message "Click the edit button to start this topic".
      • But wait, isn't a page non-empty by definition if it contains the words "Describe Topic Here"? Even if those are the only three words on the page, that still means the page isn't empty.
  • Take a drink when an entry ends with "But still..."
    • Take two drinks if it says "But come on."
  • Take a sip whenever you find a Pot Hole to Rule of Cool or Rule of Funny just because a sentence contains the word "cool" or "funny".
  • Take a sip if you see a curse word censored with "*** ". Take three sips if you're still sober enough to realize that the use of three asterisks doesn't make any sense.
  • Take a drink whenever an entry is checked out as you try to edit it.
    • Two drinks if it's checked out by you.note 
  • Throw your drink at the screen everytime someone describes themselves as a Nightmare Fetishist.
  • Take a drink every time someone writes "And how!" in an example. Take two drinks if they bother to elaborate.
    • Take a small shot if that's bolded.
      • Don't forget to demand what "AND HOW!" means.
  • Take a drink if someone makes a long elaborating for an obivously used trope.
  • Take a shot everytime a portion of a word is spoilered.
    • Take another if it involves two words.
  • Take a drink everytime mezzacotta's extremely long length is mentioned.
  • Take a shot note 
    • Down a whole bottle if the note is actually informative.
      • But not if you can't see any reason why it shouldn't have just been part of the normal text.
    • Facepalm and down a crate if this entry made you understand what the hell those weird icons mean.
  • Take a drink everytime 4chan is mentioned.
    • Take a chug if it's a meme.
  • Take a drink everytime an article links to either a Sugar Wiki or Darth Wiki trope.
    • Take a shot everytime an article links to both.
    • But don't if the article mentioned is a YMMV item, such as Moment of Awesome.
  • Take a shot of vodka for every link that misspells Chekhov's Gun as "Chekov's Gun" (note the missing 'h').note 
  • Take a shot every time you see examples of Small Name, Big Ego removed.
    • Take another shot if the subject in question is still alive and active on the Internet.
    • Take a shot if the example is religion-related.
  • Take two very short swigs every time a one-word trope or work title is broken up into Wi Ki Words rather than using curly braces to make it a link.
  • Finish your current bottle everytime an example of Natter is removed in the page history.
    • Puke up that beer you just drank if it was Fast Eddie doing it.
    • Drink half the bottle if someone removes a reply, but not a reply replying to that reply. Drink half and hit yourself over the head with the rest if someone appears to have removed only the side of an argument they disagree with.
  • Cross your heart and Take a drink every time you see that someone has struck through someone else's edit rather than deleting it.
  • Have a drink every time you read something on a Nightmare Fuel page that you didn't find scary at all.
    • Down yourself an entire cup if the person who wrote said Nightmare Fuel entry used italics or bolded letters in an attempt to get their point across.
  • Pour one on the ground in disgust every time incest is mentioned in a "Troper Tales" page (say it's for the dead homies if someone catches you wasting beer.)
  • Take a sip for every time "Admit it" or "Let's face it" appears in an example.
  • Take a sip every time the phrase "[X]. Dear Lord/God/ (or any type of cursing), [X]" is used for emphasis.
  • Take a sip whenever someone mentions, "[X] loves this trope".
  • Take a sip every time a page on The Other Wiki is linked to in lieu of a TV Tropes page on the same subject.
  • Slam one everytime someone says they're asexual in a Troper Tales page.
    • And another when someone says they're autistic or have Asperger's.
  • Take a drink if an example is a sentence that doesn't end with a full stop, exclamation mark or question mark
    • Two if it trails off with an ellipsis for no discernible reason...
  • Take a drink if somebody quotes dialogue from a prose work but writes it in script form, like this:
    Harry: [uncertainly] Is he — a bit mad?
    Percy: [airily] Mad? He's a genius! Best wizard in the world! But he is a bit mad, yes.
    • Two sips if they quote the narration but still take a stab at putting the "speaker's" name in front.
  • Take a sip whenever an example refers to a quote at the top of that trope's page, even though that quote has long since been changed to something completely unrelated to the example.
    • Take another sip if this is the case and the example is only something along the lines of "<something>: See page quote".
    • Take a sip if this is the case with the header image, rather than the quote.
    • Drain the bottle if you see examples of this for both the image and the quote.
      • Drain another bottle if it's the same example.
    • Take a sip if somebody replaces the existing page quote with something that's nearly identical but has the crucial X factor of being from a show they like.
  • Take a drink for each example with a potholed reference to an unrelated show appended to it as Natter.
  • Take a drink for every pothole to "Discontinuity" outside the bulleted point for the trope on a work page.
    • Two drinks if it's a reply worded along the lines of "that episode never happened" or "that episode doesn't exist".
    • Three drinks if the Natter is worded as above but isn't potholed.
  • Any time someone refers to a female Magnificent Bastard as a Magnificent Bitch, curse a linguistically-uptight blue streak.
  • Just keep a bottle on hand for any times you find yourself staring at a page's edit history trying to figure out what was changed between an old edit and a new edit, leaning closer and closer to the screen until the two blur together and you forget why you went there in the first place. If you don't find it, drown your sorrows. If it's that someone added or removed the space between the asterisk and the beginning of the example, go for a brisk walk.
  • Take a sip every time you get personally threatened by a Berserk Button example. Take two if the example is followed by the phrase Lord help you.
  • Arguably, taking a sip every time an entry is "arguably" an example of a trope can work, too.
    • Down the whole glass if any particular "arguable" entry results in an actual argument over whether it is an example or not. Then, if possible, find a third party to "moderate" the argument and declare a winner.
      • If the moderator decides to edit out the entry because it is not an example, whoever was arguing it was an example must down two glasses.
      • If the moderator decides to edit out "arguably" from the entry because it is most definitely an example, whoever was arguing it wasn't an example must down two glasses.
      • If the moderator cannot decide a winner, all participants in the argument must down one glass.
  • Take one sip if the page has been blanked without Cutlisting or otherwise vandalized. Three if it's allegedly "by the orders of Fast Eddie".
  • Take a sip when the page which gets locked describes a work with a questionable quality and/or the creator(s) of the said work being known for having an oversized ego.
  • Take a sip if an example of Values Dissonance is followed by a Justifying Edit protesting that that's just the way things were when the work was created.
  • Take a gulp if a trope page that includes Fan Fic examples has more than 50% of those examples coming from works and creators listed on the Troll Fic page.
  • Take a look at the Page History. Drink an entire bottle if one person has been constantly re-editing the page over and over every time they think of a new example.
  • Take a drink for every second paragraph of a trope description that starts "This, my friends, is..."
  • Take a drink every time a reference to your favorite actor/actress/director/band/musician/show/movie/video game/comic book/whatever is tagged the words "Your Mileage May Vary". Take TWO drinks if they list it as a trope on the person/work's page.
    • Take two drinks if it says "It sucks, but, you know, YMMV" or something to that effect.
  • Take a drink of Sake for every trope page where Anime/Manga accounts for at least a third of the examples, and it's not an Anime specific trope. Also take a drink for every like page where the page image is from an Anime.
  • Take a drink whenever you go to a quotes page and find that the quote you intended to add was already there.
    • Take another one if you remember that you added it yourself.
    • Take two drinks if the only quote on the quotes page is the same as the header one on the main page.
  • Take 3 sips every time somebody ends his description of something in the crowners with his reaction (for example: "*shudder*", "Brr..." or "Oh dear God" (or any variant) for Nightmare Fuel, *sob* or *sniff* for Tear Jerker, "Awwwww..." for Heartwarming Moments...).
    • And a shot when a troper prefaces their example on either of those pages with anything to the effect of "This troper doesn't normally scare easily, but..."
  • Take 4 sips if somebody WRITES SOMETHING WITH CAPITALS AND AN EXCLAMATION MARK!
  • Take 5 sips if they try to call out somebody for something. Troper, we know you've got a lot of other pages to contribute to, but could you bother to remove the unnecessary phrases where you freaking call out the person?
  • Take a drink if somebody says "Oh, and (insert something here)"
  • Take a drink every time the phrase "Let's not forget" appears when naming an example.
    • If your instinctive reaction is, "Actually, let's forget", finish the glass, assuming you haven't already done so.
  • Take a drink every time you see some of the most common Word Cruft, such as someone saying "due to the fact that" when they could've simplified it to "because".
  • Take a drink every time a post with a misspelled word in it is replied to with "X? What's an X?" ie. "Alocapypse? What's an Alocapypse?"
  • Take a drink every time someone says "How is ______ not mentioned yet?"
  • Take a chug everytime ███████████████████. ?
    • Two chugs if it's to cover up a spoiler.
    • Chug from two bottles at the same time if it's an example for the SCP Foundation.
    • On that note, two chugs if underscores (_______) cover up a spoiler. Three chugs if it's not the Big Bad that is apparently being referred to.
    • Another chug if you tried to highlight it like a regular spoiler tag.
  • Take a drink everytime Urotsukidouji is mentioned, and it has a Pot Hole to this article.
  • Make yourself a glass of vodka for every mention of the "In Soviet Russia" meme.
    • Knock that glass onto the table if it's a random Pot Hole.
  • Take a drink for every trope on a work page or character page listed in boldface. Take another drink if the trope is also in italics or ALL CAPS. Just hang your head in dismay if it's all three.
  • Take a drink every time "does not go well" or a variant is stated. Take two if that phrase is hotlinked to "Understatement".
  • Take a drink whenever you see [[supersecretspoiler]] still on a page after it's been disabled.
  • Take a shot everytime you see an example repeated.
    • Two if you don't have to scroll very far to see the first time it was mentioned.
      • 3 if you don't have to scroll at all.
  • Take a shot for every male example on an Always Female trope, and vice versa.
  • Take a shot everytime you see an example repeated.
  • Take a sip every time an actor is referred to as a character he played in some famous but otherwise irrelevant show.
  • Take a sip every time an actor's name is potholed to a show.
    • Take two drinks any time an entry even remotely about someone's physical appearance is deleted by someone who's either a massive prude, or just afraid of Google coming down and fucking spanking us.
  • Take a drink if Ho Yay is listed as a trope associated with a specific work when there is no Ho Yay present beyond two male characters interacting in a friendly or positive manner.
    • Take two drinks if there is no description of the Ho Yay occurrence(s), or if the "example" is something like "Ho Yay: oh good Lord yes!" or "oh man, is there ever!"
  • Two drinks every time a sentence ends with the non-word "natch".
  • Take a drink if you see "Character (no, not THAT Character)" or anything similar ("not to be confused with", etc).
  • Take a drink every time you see the phrase "It's that kind of show" or "It's that kind of game".
  • Take a sip every time Don't Explain the Joke is pot holed.
    • Make it a drink is the explanation is only there to make the Pot Hole.
  • Take a sip when somebody suggests a Third Option. Two sips if the option is simply, "Why not both?" If it can't possibly be both, why not take just one sip AND two sips?
  • Take a sip every time you see "rare male/female/Western/whatever example," when a look at the rest of the page would reveal that those aren't rare at all.
  • Take a shot whenever a typo is cleverly pointed out with one boldface letter.
    • "And it gave them hope!" ~sip
  • If you make an edit that references the trope by name, and then do a word find (ctrl+F) to see edit you made, but type in the trope name... you're probably coasting pretty well for now. (If you do take a drink anyway, it's probably time to do more reading and less typing).
  • Take a sip every time any Audience Reaction trope talks about One More Day or Brand New Day or One Moment in Time or any characters or any changes to established characters from those story arcs.
  • Take a mystery shot whenever you see an anime/TV show/webcomic/etc. that you've never heard of but see everywhere on the site.
  • Take a shot everytime someone Pot Holes something to Beyond the Impossible when Exaggerated Trope is the actual trope being employed.
  • Take a drink whenever you read "You are now reading this in [person]'s voice. Then take another if you actually are.
    • Good News, Everyone! Take another shot whenever the next sentence or tooltip invokes Prof. Farnsworth to blow your inner vocal mind.
  • Drink half a can of beer while doing the "Misato getting hammered" pose everytime a trope example says it was deconstructed by Neon Genesis Evangelion. Drink a whole beer instead if the word "brutally" or equivalent is present.
  • Take a swig everytime you stumble into a LockedPage.
    • Exchange bottles with another player if the wiki's official page doesn't say why it's locked.
  • In a similar example, take a shot everytime you go to a page from the Permanent Red Link Club. Upgrade that shot to a chug if you didn't go there on purpose.
  • ...and on that note, take a chug, then look towards another player with uncertain eyes everytime you see an example of Naughty Tentacles. Then, if you have the impulse to, delete the offending example.
  • Take a drink every time you see a top-level bullet point that clearly was written to follow up the one directly above it, but because the page has been edited since then, the two no longer have any connection and the bullet point reads like a complete non sequitur.
  • Take a shot everytime you see an example of Insistent Terminology being corrected in a Page History, such as Hwacha being replaced with Hwacha!!
    • Face Palm (and try to hide your shame) if said edit stemmed from an example you wrote, but only if you didn't know of the terminology when the example was written.
  • Take a sip if the page quote has a Title Drop of the name of the trope that's Pot Holed to Trope Namer.
    • Drain the bottle if the quote isn't actually the Trope Namer.
  • Take a shot and crush the glass in your hand if the example says that it's not just deconstructed, but annihilated, stomped flat, shot into space, or something similar.
  • Take a drink if MythBusters is mentioned in the trope description.
  • Take a drink for any phrase you see worded in an opposite way just for the sake of potholing Sarcasm Mode.
  • Take two drinks when you see something being described as Actor Allusion when it's just two coincidentally similar roles an actor played, without a reference to the other in either work. Take two more drinks if it starts with "This isn't the first time..."
  • Take a sip if a page links to "Too Dumb to Live". Of course, if you fall for that, then you will be on the floor within a minute.
  • Take a big chug whenever a character is described as being a trope incarnate, for example: The Joker is Monster Clown incarnate!
  • Take a sip whenever a mention of something that X Also Did is emphasized with "(yes, that X!)". Take a second sip if X happens to have a distinctive name that couldn't possibly be confused for someone else, and/or is someone well-known for their versatility.
  • In case you learnt any of the above Verbal Tic from TV Tropes because you mistook it for a Running Gag, empty a barrel, set it on fire and dance around it in the pale moonlight.
  • Down one if you see someone try to one up an example and start their sentence with "Hell" to try and acknowledge that the ridiculous isn't out of the question. Hell, take a drink NOW.
  • Serve one up if the Random Page button takes you to the TV Tropes Home Page.
  • Take a sip whenever a cast member is said to have been "Darrin'd."
  • Drink for every Pot Hole on the Cliché Storm page that says 'This is not a bad thing' or 'That said, it's still actually a good book' and links to Tropes Are Not Bad.
  • Take a sip whenever you come across a Justifying Edit that's, at very best, debatable, then remove it.
    • Take two if it's trying to poorly masquerade itself an additional example.
  • Take a drink whenever you come a crossed Tower of God listed under the Anime and Manga folder of a trope page, then move it to the proper folder.
  • Take a drink if the browser reloads as it thinks there's a problem with the page. If editing, just make it a sip; you'll need all the focus you can get.
  • Take a drink if the example list includes a Cracked.com article.
  • When browsing Tropes That Will Never Happen, take a shot for every mention of Xanatos or Zoidberg.
  • Take a drink if the index list of a trope page you're on includes No Real Life Examples, Please!. Take another if you've seen the page before it got the NRLEP treatment.
  • Take a sip every time you get a private message.
    • Chase it down and take a deep breath if it's a message not related to moderation or edit issues.
  • If you wrote an example and it got edited (e.g. for grammar, Example Indentation, or spoiler-tagging), take a drink.
    • If it got outright removed, take two instead.
    • Take an extra drink if it came with a rude edit reason. Take two if it's right.
  • Take a sip every time you see a classic video game example written in the past tense.
  • Take a sip every time you're on a work page and the time period that the work was released in is on the example list.
  • Take a sip every time you're on a trope page and you see an example where the work is described with irrelevant descriptors such as "obscure" or "old", or the platform the work is available on. Take a second sip if it has a work page on this wiki. A third if it's linked.
  • Take a drink every time you see a spoiler tag used for a punchline rather than an actual plot spoiler.
  • Take a drink every time you see non-commercial art as a page image and it actually has a citation.
  • Take a drink every time you're browsing a page for a Final Fantasy game and you see a phrase in the format of "the (noun)-(adverb ending in -ly) popular Final Fantasy series".
  • Take a drink every time you're browsing a page for a Sonic the Hedgehog game and you see a phrase in the format of Mad scientist Dr. Eggman has a new plan to Take Over The World: X.
  • Take a drink every time you see So Cool, It's Awesome on a YMMV page. Take two if it's a Zero-Context Example.
  • Take a sip if you look at the Western Animation section of any trope page that has one and the last example listed is one from Kaeloo
  • On Better Than It Sounds, drink for every entry parodying the 'Bad Dudes' opening (eg. 'The princess has been kidnapped by demons. Are you a bad enough samurai to save the princess?', which is Onimusha: Warlords)
  • If you accidentally submit an edit with a word replacement browser extension on, take a shot for every word replaced and immediately revert your edits. If you didn't notice and got edit-banned as a result, finish your drink and cry in the corner until you sob all the alcohol out.
  • Take a drink every time you're excited to see a new edit in your watchlist, then get let down because it's just someone correcting namespaces in page links.
  • If a Tear Jerker or Heartwarming Moment example has something along the lines of "if you didn't cry or get warm and fuzzy feelings over this moment then you have no soul", finish your drink.
  • Take a drink every time you actually see an adult fear example that for once isn't about children.
  • Take a drink every time The World is Flat is used as a Trope Depiction.
  • On Non-Existent Fiction Recommendations, take a drink every time you see an entry ending with what it's supposedly a Wham Line.Such as...
  • Take a drink every time you get an annoying advertisement.
  • On I Read That As, drink if an entry is followed by a comment in brackets along the lines of 'What even is that?' or 'I think I'm too drunk'. Take an extra drink if a comment of this kind is potholed to Running Gag.
  • On You Know You Read Too Much TV Tropes When..., drink for each entry that says 'You're still reading this page'.
  • Drink if you have to stop halfway through an edit to check the specific wording/spelling of a trope name in order to avoid red links.
  • Drink if you encounter a trope you launched on a page where you weren't expecting.
  • Drink if you don't understand a picture and you have to read Image Pickin' archives to understand why it was chosen.
  • Drink if a Laconic page replaces 'Visit unabridged version HERE' with some phrase that incorporates the trope somehow. Optional extra drink if this involves formatting gimmicks.
    • Take an extra drink if this phrase is longer than the laconic description.
  • Take a sip every time there's an example from The Simpsons followed by over a dozen responses.
  • On any Music section or subpage, drink every time a lyric gets the song stuck on your head. Two if you start singing. Three if you know all the lyrics!
  • On Western Animation, drink every time the voice actors for any of the shows/movies mentioned are called "wasted talent".
  • For every anime character name on the Spanish Role Association page for Western Animation, take a drink (WARNING: YOUR LIVER WILL PACK BAGS AND HEAD TO CHINA FAST IF YOU DO THIS ONE WITH ALCOHOL).
    • Two sips if it's Role Association for the Latin Spanish V.A. of an anime character (AGAIN, YOU WILL BE HOSPITALIZED IF YOU TRY THIS ONE WITH ALCOHOL).
  • Take a drink for every mention of Buffy the Vampire Slayer you can find. In fact, take a drink right now.
  • Take a sip for every trope page with a Video Example from:
  • Take a drink for every single mention of a famous New Atheist.
  • Take a drink whenever the phrase "Then again this may be for his/her protection" is said on Reclusive Artist.
  • Take a drink whenever Apocalypse How is used as a trope.
  • After clicking on a green link, take one sip for every "may refer to the following" link.
  • Take a drink for whenever The Stinger on one of the GoAnimate pages has Boris grounding Caillou.
  • Take a drink for every mention of (or page image from or trope named for something from or an example of a trope used in) Discworld. Screw it, the ambulance can't save you.
  • Take a sip every time you get the page counter that asks you to subscribe or turn off adblock, if you use adblock.
  • Take a sip each time the ads make your browser crash on mobile.
  • Warning Take a drink for every page image from an obscure webcomic nobody has heard of, or every page image from The Non-Adventures of Wonderella.
    • Take 2 shots if the page for the obscure webcomic linked in the image doesn't exist.
  • Take a drink for every usage of the phrase "Nintendo is totally going in the wrong direction and ruining portable gaming for everyone" on Video Games (General).
  • Take a drink every time a Strawberry Shortcake example has every use of the word "very" swapped out for "berry". Don't even bother calling an ambulance, as you will die.
  • Take a drink every time one of the admins doesn't use the "%%" thing when removing a zero context example and instead just straight up remove it from the page.
  • Take a drink for every usage of "our heroes" to describe the main cast of a TV show, movie or book. DO NOT USE ALCOHOL FOR THIS CHALLENGE.
  • Take a drink for every usage of the words "brutal", "brutally", "mercilessly", and "viciously" or the term "pull-no-punches" to describe a Take That!. Down your bottle if the first four mentioned words aren't in italics.
  • In any So Bad, It's Horrible page, take a sip if a paragraph ends with a link of a review of the subject that is phrased as "watch X rip it apart here". We sincerely recommend you do not use alcohol for this challenge.
  • Take a drink if something is parodied/mocked "brutally", "mercilessly", "cruelly" or "viciously". Screw it, the ambulance can't save you.
  • Take a sip every time you're the first person who edits a page that hasn't been touched in months, but soon after you no longer have the latest revision.
  • Take a sip each time a Complete Monster entry potholes Mad Scientist to the character's name.
  • Take a drink every time a (often negative) review of a game/album/film/etc. is quoted. (Please do not attempt this with any alcoholic beverage)
  • Take a drink if a page rule is in bold and links to an Administrivia page.
  • Take a drink if you spot a Unintentional Period Piece on a trope page.
  • Take a drink for every edit you find, clearly from the mid-to-late-2000s/early 2010s, that tries to force atheist views on the reader.
  • Take a drink every time you spot the phrase "You could say that [insert some form of an Incredibly Lame Pun here]". Take two drinks if you see it's clear whoever edited it in in the first place was trying too hard to be funny.
  • Take a drink every time you're reminded ¡Mucha Lucha! takes place at the FOREMOST, WORLD RENOWNED, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LUCHA!!!!
  • Take a drink for every mention of Fast Eddie in a Administrivia page.
    • 2 shots if it's a full-on quote from him.
  • Take a drink for every mention of Todd in the Shadows' opinion on a song in the music section of a tropes page, or any page quote from him on a music-related page. Screw it, the ambulance can't save you.
  • Take a sip every time the first example on the Western Animation folder or subpage is from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Take two if the examples aren't in alphabetical order.
  • Take a drink every time something is described as "a literal example" of a trope that is intended to be taken literally anyway.
  • Take a sip every time you see commented out (i.e. preceded by two percent symbols) moderation-related text at the top of the page.
    • Take an extra sip if the comment is about Zero Context Examples.
    • Take an extra sip if it's a reminder that Broken Base, Base-Breaking Character, and/or Contested Sequel examples on a YMMV page are not allowed until 6 months from the work's release date.
    • Take an extra sip for every extra pair of comment markers after the first two pairs.
    • Finish your drink if the comments are written in an angry tone, such as gratuitous uses of ALL CAPS, "do NOT", and "ever". If these remarks were made by a non-moderator, hit them with the glass.
  • Take a drink each time you find a link that points to a disambiguation instead of a page.
  • Take a drink every time a Turning Red example is about an extremely minor detail that can be seen in the background for three seconds, or is from the early drafts of the movie.
  • Take a drink for every instance of Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma on Dead End: Paranormal Park and its' subpages.
  • Take a drink every time a Totally Spies! example is actually just the Troper's barely-disguised fetish.
  • Take a drink every time a Total Drama example has a character's name potholed to a trope. For example: Gwen's name potholed to Perky Goth.
  • Take a drink every time a Thomas & Friends example or subpage complains about the "Sharon Miller era," and/or refers to seasons 8-12 as "the new series," even though these seasons certainly aren't new anymore.
  • Take a drink every time a Steven Universe example puts Peridot's name in spoiler markup, even though it's been over seven years since she made a Heel–Face Turn and everyone knows about her.
  • Take a drink every time a The Owl House example treats Luz and Amity's relationship as a spoiler.
  • Take a drink every time a page has complaining about Hanna-Barbera's usage of Limited Animation and Self-Plagiarism.
  • Take a drink for every Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei example, take two drinks if it's the page image and/or quote, and take three drinks if you've never heard of/watched the series.
  • Take a sip every time a troper is grasping at straws for a Harsher in Hindsight or Overshadowed by Controversy entry. Take another sip if the entry was argued about in the related clean up threads.
  • Go to any page for a AlternateHistory.com work and take a drink for every use of the word "butterfly" or a variation of it.
  • Take a drink every time you see an entry or edit reason that is a barely-disguised soapbox for the troper to voice their political views.
  • Take a drink every time you see a really old entry that is loaded with natter and plays out like a mid-to-late-2000s forum conservation.
  • Take a drink for a entry on a Western Animation page that namedrops and/or repeats the criticisms made by a YouTube animation critic. Take two whole swigs if the critic mentioned is The Mysterious Mr. Enter.

    Trope Launch Pad 
  • Take a sip for every suggested trope that turns out to already exist.
    • Take two sips if its name is the same as the suggested title.
    • Make it three sips if the suggested trope already exists but hasn't been launched yet.
  • Take a sip for every reply that repeats an example from a previous reply.
  • Take a sip for every suggested The Same, but More trope.
  • Take a sip for every suggested trope that is a transparent soapbox for the author to complain about stuff.
  • Take a sip for every suggestion consisting of a title and a claim that it is Self-Explanatory.
    • Take two sips if you can actually figure out what the hell it means.
  • Take a sip for every initial post which lists at least one Real Life example in violation of the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.
  • Down a 40 and smack someone upside the head if the OP bumps their own page more than 3 times without adding new examples.
  • Take a sip every time an Image Picking thread for replacing the picture of a recently launched trope is started.
  • Take a sip if a draft that is 2 or more years old (and hasn't seen any activity in that time) is suddenly bumped for no reason or for irrelevant reasons. Double if the draft is at least a decade old.
    • Take another sip if the bump is from a troper suggesting genuine examples, but they didn't notice the date of last activity or the inactivity of the original sponsor that had long abandoned the draft.
  • Take a sip whenever someone comments just to point out a typo or mistake in formatting so small it barely needs mentioning, despite TLP rules stating that they could just as easily fix it themselves with no problem.

    Wild Mass Guessing 
  • Take a sip every time someone links a series to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
    • Take two sips if they theorize that the other series occurs within Instrumentality.
  • Take a sip every time someone identifies a character as a Time Lord.
    • Two sips if the reasoning is "Character X is a Time Lord because every series needs a Time Lord."
      • Three sips if there is absolutely no reason for them to think someone is a Time Lord, e.g. the series doesn't involve Time Travel.
    • And another if they then continue 'and X is their TARDIS'.
    • Finish the bottle if the person exists in real life. Example: Stephen Colbert is a Time Lord.
    • Start on another one if they cite or Pot Hole Trope Law 14 or this very page as their reasons for the guess.
  • Take a sip every time a series is linked to Haruhi Suzumiya.
    • Two sips if the link isn't "Character X is Haruhi".
    • Double that if you've never seen the show and have no damned idea who Haruhi is.
    • Raid a brewery every time one actually makes sense.
      • Give the brewery time to rebuild before trying again.
  • Drink the entire bottle if those three series are mentioned in a single theory.
  • Take a sip every time someone links a series to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
  • Take a sip every time there is a link to El Goonish Shive.
  • Take a sip every time a character is said to be either Jesus or in Purgatory.
    • You may, optionally, recursively drink back and forth using the Wild Mass Guess that Jesus is Haruhi and vice versa.
  • Take a sip every time someone links two or more characters played by the same actor.
  • Take a sip if a theory out-and-out contradicts the rules and/or established facts of the story's universe (ie: "replicants are brainwashed humans" in the Blade Runner entry.)
    • Take a shot if, despite it defying the established laws, it makes better sense and/or works better than the canon version.
  • Take a shot every time it turns out that someone never wanted to be an X anyway... they wanted to be... A LUMBERJACK!
    • Take two shots if they never wanted to be a lumberjack anyway. They wanted to be... AN X!
  • Finish your drink every time you see a plausible and convincing theory connecting two series.
    • Take a shot if doesn't (e.g. "Character X grows up to be Character Y") without sufficient evidence.
  • Take a sip for every occurrence of the sentence, "Think about it."
  • While sober, find a batshit insane theory that you'd have to be drunk to believe. When drunk, find that theory and see if it does make sense. If not, keep drinking until it does (or you pass out, whichever comes first).
  • Take a shot whenever a theory is "X is dead."
  • Take a shot whenever a WMG is just a casting gag the troper would like to see.
  • Take a sip for every time a reply is simply "Jossed".
  • Take a shot if you came across a WMG that makes so much sense that you incorporate it in your personal canon.
  • Take a shot whenever a WMG turns out to be true (not counting "Bruce Wayne is Batman"-style WMGs).
  • Go on the WMG page for Pibby and take a drink for every entry that involves Break the Cutie.
  • Take a drink every time someone identifies The Man Behind the Man as Black Hat.

    Headscratchers 
  • Take a drink for every question that can be answered: "It's a movie / kid's show / comicbook / whatever, you should really just relax."
    • Take two drinks for every question that actually is answered in this manner.
      • When someone complains about that answer, drain the glass to block out their bitching.
  • On the The Twilight Saga pages, down a shot every time somebody mentions something Squicky
    • Take a sip of ice wine whenever someone attempts to use science for or against something in the series.
      • Take a bigger sip for whenever some attempts to fight science with science.
    • Two shots every time it's to do with either vampire anatomy or the relationship between Bella's kid and Jacob.
    • Pour out a glass of wine and drink it every time a complaint or rebuttal exceeds 500 words.
      • Take a shot whenever there is an argument over whether Edward is a Fetishized Abuser or not.
      • Do two shots whenever somebody says "Wish-Fulfillment", "Smeyer", "Talentless", "No-talent", "Hack", "Mary Sue", "Attractive", "Sociopath", "Bitch", "Volturi," or "Sex". You'll die a quarter of the way through the first page.
  • Take a sip for every question that can be explained by the Rule of Funny for a Gag Series or Video Review Show with a comedic bent. An entire glassful if it's Zero Punctuation.
  • Take a sip every time something like this happens on a page for a fantasy series. note 
    Troper 1: How does X work/breathe/get enough nutrients to survive?
    Troper 2: Dude, it's magic.
    • Take another sip every time "magic" is potholed to A Wizard Did It.
      • If it's potholed to anything else, you're screwed.
  • Take a sip every time you see someone using the Headscratchers page to complain about a work/insult its authors/ or its fanbase.
    • Take two if the person in question uses profanity.
    • Take three if the question is complaining about a character.
  • Take sip whenever someone asks why a character 'made a stupid/bad' decision, and the decision was made under emotional pain/physical pain/ stress/ drunk/ drugged/ based on a defining character flaw.

    Discussion 
  • Take a sip every time somebody justifies doing whatever they were going to do anyway with "we are not Wikipedia".
    • Take a chug everytime Wikipedia is referred to as "The Other Wiki".
      • Take a munch of your favorite heavily-salted snack treat if it's not.
  • Take a drink whenever someone responds to "Tropes Are Not Bad" with "Tropes Are Not Good", and vice versa.
  • Take a sip whenever someone complains that a trope is "Complaining About ________ You Don't Like".
    • Take two sips if that person forgot why Complain About Shows You Don't Like was deleted in the first place.
  • Take a chug every time you see "Textbook JAFAAC" as a Discussion Title in the Image Pickin' section.
  • Take a sip every time a specific scene is suggested in Image Picking without any actual image because "it's a good example of this trope". Take the shot if there are several images of the suggested scene as the first results of a google image search.
  • Drown the bottle if someone uses the "just a picture with a caption" complaint or something similar with an image suggested in Image Picking.

    YKTS (You Know that Show) 
Drink (any amount of a preferably non-alcoholic beverage, even though the alcohol is kinda the point) if on the You Know That Show board:
  • The request is for a work that is very well-known and/or could easily be Googled.
  • The original poster remembers the title almost exactly.
  • The initial request is so vague that it could be any work of the category they asked for.
  • The request is for a song with no lyrics included.
  • The OP answers their own request. (Bonus drink if they say "Nevermind" and/or "I found it" in the post where they answer it)
  • Someone double-posts accidentally.
  • Someone gets annoyed because the OP bumps a post too much, or if the OP actually does bump way too much.
  • Someone bumps a post with no replies for more than a year (Bonus drink if it's not the OP)
    • Satisfication bonus if a post with no replies for more than a year suddenly gets solved.
  • One of the reply posters doesn't read what category the original submission was, or the submission is in the wrong category.
  • Someone replies with a work that is specifically stated in the original submission to not be the right answer, or that has already been ruled out by a later comment by the OP.
  • In a similar vein to the previous one, if someone makes a guess that is very far afield from what the work turned out to be.
  • Someone remembers the work the OP was looking for, but not the name. Bonus if you're the one that remembers it.
  • The answer is still a mystery despite 10+ replies from tropers besides the OP. (What show is Troper X looking for? The world may never know.)
  • You knew the answer, but someone already answered.
  • The request gets an answer, but the OP never answers back.
  • The answer is one of these shows/movies:

    Ask The Tropers 
  • Take a drink whenever someone asks how to cite a TV Tropes page.
  • Take somebody else's drink when someone answers a query with "Trope Finder".

    Special Editions 

Your Liver Is Currently Dialing Dr. Kevorkian's Number Edition:

  • Take a sip every time you see the word 'trope'.
    • Another sip if it's a similar word ('troper', 'tropes', etc).
  • Take a drink every time you see the word "egregious" (currently appears on 1545 articles).
    • Two drinks if "egregious" is potholed into TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game.
    • Or if it's about Egregious Heterodyne.
      • Take three if an egregious pothole is how you initially found this page.
      • Take four drinks if the example is particularly egregious.
    • Take two if the editor has in fact simply double-braced the word egregious.
    • Note: For those with stomachs of steel or a death wish, try the Guide Dang It! page. Twelve "egregious"es, all potholed, six of which are "particularly" egregious. That's...30 drinks. Good luck. Now there's 16 "egregious'es" on that page.
      • Running Gag is worse. This Troper prides himself on (almost) singlehandedly spelling a surefire path to painful death by cirrhosis.
      • Not to mention this very page, which is becoming an egregious example of "egregious" itself, with eight examples so far. Egregious Egregious egregious egregious egregious egregious.
      • Damn you! * hic*
      • Finish off the bottle if you can still spell "egregious" by this point.
      • We apologize that "egregious" now no longer looks like a word.
    • If the overuse of the word egregious seems like a Dead Unicorn Trope because every time you see it, it's potholed to Egregious or TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game, finish whatever you're drinking.
    • Drain two glasses if "egregious" is potholed to a different page.
    • Lastly, take one extra drink every time it's mispronounced/misspelled "egregrious", or variations thereof.
  • Take a drink for every example from a Trope Overdosed series.
    • Or you could tally up all the wicks for all the examples, and take that many drinks. Or not.
  • Take a drink for every mention of one of the Tropes of Legend.
  • Take a drink for every use of a Prededefined Message on the Trope Launch Pad.
  • Take a drink for every snowcloned trope title.
  • Take a drink every time a trope is declared one of The Oldest Ones in the Book (or one of the subindices).
  • Take a sip for every example listed on the Magnificent Bastard page. (That would, at 630 examples as of March 2012, give you liver failure by itself, if you're lucky....)
  • Count all the linked-to tropes on a page, then take that many sips.
    • Two sips for each numerical discrepancy in the number of tropes counted (good for late in the game).
  • Take another sip every time an example is "obligatory".
  • Take a large sip for the phrase "Pick a [X]. Any [X]."
  • Take a sip every time an article potholes to itself.
  • Take a sip every time the character string "fuck" appears on a page.
  • Take a drink whenever someone snarks at a Dominic Deegan example.
    • Take two drinks if it's not the actual Dominic Deegan page or one of its related pages (WMG, JBM, etc)
    • Down the bottle if the snarker has a valid complaint.
      • When reading through an Alternate Character Interpretation of the comic, take a shot every time Dominic is referred to as "Lord Domenuce". Place bets on what comes first — alcohol poisoning or the ACI becoming entertaining.
  • Take a shot, of all measures, for an example, of all examples, notes that something was done by a character, of all people.
    • Take a sip everytime 4 * or more used at the start.
      • Take 2 if at least one part of the chain does not need an added *
      • Take 3 if every part of the chain doesn't need it, like now.
      • Finish the rest of your bottle if this is exaggerated to ridiculous extremes.
  • Just in case you failed an attempt at assassinating a politician and need an internet-worthy (not to mention nerdy) way to die, and can still count, count all of the tabs in your web browser you've opened up as a result of your reading a page, and have a shot for each one.
  • Down the rest of the bottle if someone writes down a battle cry from Warhammer 40,000, then shout it out.
  • Take a drink if the page image for an article is from an anime or manga. Then take another if you've never heard of it (if it doesn't say what it's from in the caption, the image or the caption will probably link to the article describing the anime or manga. In fact, you should take another drink if this is the case). Take a third drink if it's not a link.
  • Take a drink every time you see the word "titular" misused.
  • Take a sip every time you see the phrase "oddly enough."
  • Take a drink for every mention of a Dead Unicorn Trope.
  • Take a drink for every aversion of a trope that is not listed on the page.
    • Chug it as fast as you can for every aversion you see that is listed, and chug two for each one that doesn't actually avert the trope.
  • Take (x + y) ^ 2 sips, where x=the amount of items on this page and y=32,000.

Celebrity Edition

  • Take a sip every time BRIAN BLESSED is mentioned.
  • Take a sip... every time... an example mentioning... William Shatner... references... his overuse... of... dramatic... pauses...
  • Take a sip for every mention of Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!
    • Take another if it's Captain Gordon, 37th Defender of Earth!! (punctuated as so with added 37th).
    • Drain the whole glass if it is missing the bold and / or exclamation point.
  • Take a sip every time Ciaphas Cain is referred to as a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
  • Take a sip every time AQUAMAN from Batman: The Brave and the Bold is referred to in ALL CAPS.
    • And another if, with in the next two sentences, the word OUTRAGEOUS is used.
  • Take a sip for every mention of Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer!
    • Drain the whole glass if Gentleman Adventurer is missing.
    • Drain another glass if his last name is missing.
    • Drain the bottle if it mentions his Twitter.
  • Drain the glass every time a character (any character) is referred to as a Magnificent Bastard (except on the Magnificent Bastard page itself; that's already covered).
  • Take a sip whenever a mention of any positive emotion/scene between Solid Snake and Otacon is potholed into Ho Yay or Ho Yay Video Games Examples.
  • Take a sip for every mention of Robin Williams.
  • On that same idea, take a sip for every positive Jay Leno mention.
  • Take a sip every time someone mentions Candle Jack and then doesn't fi
    • -nish their sentence. Incidentally, take another sip if somebody comes by later and finishes it.
      • Another when it is Candle Jack himself who finishes the sentence. Hey, can I have some of that alcohol of yours?
    • And another sip if someone cuts themselves off while saying Candle J- oh, you know.
    • And down a six-pack if someone mentions him and does finish.
    • And down a glass if someone does cut off, but for no apparent rea
      • Every time someone fit right? It is supposed to look like that: When you type Candlejack, you do not usually finish second sentence. If you do not finish the first sentence you are doing it wr
      • See, that's only one drink. Though you should probably drink another time if someone's able to go another line before abduction.
      • Take a shot everyime Candle Jack is pot holed to Freakazo
      • Wait. That makes no sense Candle Jack. Does it? Ugh......... Those Fu-
  • Yet another sip if a mention of a subversion includes some variant of the phrase "of all things".
  • Take a sip if a character played by Summer Glau is mentioned.
    • Take a whole shot if both River Tam and Cameron are mentioned in the same trope.
  • Sip a beer every time you read "Obligatory Doctor Who example."
    • Take two sips if there isn't a Doctor Who example and add one.
      • Take three sips every time one of these episodes is mentioned: "Midnight", "Journey's End", "Bad Wolf", "The Parting of the Ways", "Silence in the Library", "Forest of the Dead", "The Empty Child", "The Doctor Dances", "Planet of the Ood", "Evolution of the Daleks", "Blink", "The Time of Angels", "Flesh and Stone", "The Pandorica Opens", "The Big Bang", "The Eleventh Hour" and The Caves of Androzani.
      • Take four sips every time the example given is in one of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels.
      • Take three sips for every Pot Hole to Missing Episode made within a Doctor Who example. If said example also mentions The Tenth Planet, take two more.
      • Force someone else to take a drink if the two are mentioned in the same article, but they are not related to each other.
    • Take a sip for every stricken-thru Doctor-given nickname occurring before the [[strike:Graveyard]] [[strike:Knacker's Yard]] [[strike: Brickyard]] Valeyard's name.
    • Take two sips for one the Doctor did not actually use.
    • Take a sip when anybody mentions how Badass Rory Williams, River Song and the Doctor are.
  • And speaking of The Doctor, take a sip if someone mentions The Doctor, and clarifies "(but not that Doctor)".
  • Take a sip every time Jack Rakan is mentioned.
    • Take 2 sips if his name is potholed to Crazy is Cool.
    • Take 3 sips if the nickname "That Damn Guy You Can Stab With Swords All You Like and It Won't Do a Thing, Damnit" is mentioned.
  • Take a drink whenever a work of Joss Whedon has more examples than any other show in a YMMV item.
  • Take a sip whenever a character is mentioned in this manner: Fan Nickname Real Name.
  • Take a sip whenever Kamina is mentioned in the same sentence as Hot-Blooded, Cool Shades, or Beyond the Impossible.
    • Take two sips whenever his death isn't spoiler tagged.
  • Chug a mug of British Ale whenever Norio Wakamoto is referred to as Emperor Wakamoto.
    • Chug twice if the sentence "ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!!" is mentioned near his name.
  • Take a sip whenever Darryl Revok is mentioned.
  • Take a swig every time The Dark Knight is mentioned and it isn't to talk about the late Heath Ledger.
    • Also take a swig every time the late Heath Ledger is mentioned and it isn't to talk about The Dark Knight.
    • Similiarly, take a sip whenever somebody says anything about The Proposition that doesn't revolve around what a bastard Arthur Burns is.
  • Drain the jug if Papa Lazarou is mentioned and there is no reference whatever to Nightmare Fuel.
  • Drain the jug when you come across a Warhammer 40,000 example that feels competitively written, as though the person who added it was trying to prove that 40K is the best thing ever.
  • Make yourself a White Russian and drink that every time The Big Lebowski is mentioned or Pot Holed.
  • Take a sip everytime you see Big Boss's name potholed to either Stupid Sexy Flanders or Even the Guys Want Him, and a sip and a half if it's Solid Snake with the aforementioned Pot Hole.
  • Take a sip every time you see the name specifically spelled "Britney" and it's not referring to Mrs. Spears.
    • Take a second sip if it's not a misspelling of "Brittany" or some other Hollywood Spelling of that name. Otherwise, let your inner Grammar Nazi loose on the bugger and hit it one more time...
  • Take a sip and whimper every time DAN GREEN is mentioned.
  • Take a sip everytime Jesus Dies is spoilered.
  • Take a sip every time a reference to Maggie Gyllenhaal is tagged with Your Mileage May Vary. Take two if the reasoning (if given) is particularly mean-spirited.
  • Take a sip every time a work by superstarultra or Ryan Armand is mentioned.


Badass (or Wannabe Badass) Edition:

  • Take a drink whenever you feel like it. Excuses are for sissies!
    • derm (hic)* rite!1!!1
  • Every time you take a drink, you gotta take a drink!
    • And everytime you take a drink, you gotta take a drink!
      • *drool*


Teetotaller's Edition:

  • Play the game with the same rules above, only substitute alcohol for a beverage containing caffeine (or just plain water, if you're trying to stay away from that.) Instead of trying to get drunk, see how long you can hold out without a bathroom break.
    • Oh so very inadvisable.
    • Alternately, use your preferred spicy food item.
    • Or better yet, make yourself a nice, warm pot of poison hemlock.
      • Wimp. Real men use deadly nightshade berries.
    • Or, if you enjoy pain, use lemon juice. Or just eat an entire bag of Shockers. Who needs excuses, anywhichway?
    • Or, you can use soda or another sufficiently sucrose-filled beverage and try to get a sugar rush.


Midna's Unauthorized True-Story-Honest Edition:

  • Down an entire bottle for each Take That! that Midna has removed and then got put back in by some editor who actually likes mocking things, running around bashing anything and everything.
  • Take five sips for each time you read "fuck". Reading Cluster F-Bomb is not recommended.note 
  • Take a sip each time you see a Disgaea example for anything.
  • Take two sips every time Midna uses "This troper".
  • Down half of your remaining * alcoholic beverage of choice* each time you find a link to Perverse Sexual Lust.
  • Take three sips each time you find a picture of, example of, or quote of Midna (the character).
  • Down a bottle each time you find a reference to someone you harbor PSL for.
    • Down another if you weren't the one that put the reference in.


Great Pikmin Fan's Edition

Soft core examples

Not too bad, yet not too good examples

  • Take a sip when House Of Leaves is mentioned, and the word "house" is in blue (not recomended to take along with the first one listed, other wise it's "take a sip when ever house of leaves is mentioned. Ever.)
  • Take a sip when you see Great Pikmin Fan, or any pot holes to great pikmin fan.
  • Take a drink if one minor character is an example of a trope by themselves.
  • Take a sip if you see a link to a cut aricle.

Your liver will fail if you do more than one of these at a time examples

  • Take a drink every time the Ed Edd n Eddy movie is mentioned, and a plot point, important or not, is spoiled. Like the "spoiler" that nobody dies.
  • Take a sip when you find an Edit War.
    • Take a sip if you are in an edit war.
  • Take a sip if someone links to exampleless article (unwinnable doesn't count, every thing is covered by the sub-tropes.)
  • Take a sip for every non-example you find.
  • Take a sip if you see a red link. (Good luck with List of Shows That Need Summary or, while not as bad, All-Red Entry.)
  • Take a sip every time a page on the Sugar Wiki references its counterpart in Darth Wiki or vice versa.
  • Take a sip every time a Discworld example is mentioned as anything other than playing a trope straight.
  • note Kill yourself with alcohol overdose (or not...) when ever you read about The Game or Drew Pickles. As for the later, seeing "Drew" is fine, as long as it isn't listed as an example of rugrats, and if rugrats isn't spoiled. Or you don't read what show it is. if you see "Drew" and it is potholed, roll over it. if it links to rugrats, your screwed.


Haseo Natsume's Edition

  • Instead of drinking every time Mystical Waif is mentioned, look up to the heavens, pray for the blessing of the Grail, anoint yourself with the libation, in the manner you are accustomed to (Sign of the Cross if you're Catholic/Orthodox, for example,) while thinking of your favorite Mystical Waif, and finally order out for a pizza.
  • When Arc Words are mentioned, take a sip, and then repeat the words, or if it is simply the trope itself mentioned, repeat the ones you like most.
  • Take a sip of sacramental wine every time Christianity Is Catholic is played straight.
  • Drink half a glass of your favorite non-alcoholic beverage every time you see Frothy Mugs of Water.
  • Do NOT drink if you see a top page quote by one of the most usual page quote sources, otherwise you'll be drinking all night and forget to play the game properly.


BigJimbo's Edition

  • In case you feel strong enough, do this: If you go to a page of a work which is known for some certain element, take a drink for every instance of it.


That One Edition

  • While playing a game, before you attempt a particular task for the first time, look to see if it's listed as That One Level, That One Boss, etc.. If it is, take a shot each time you fail or die. Warning: Doing this means your chances of taking another shot with each passing shot, so we recommend you set a limit for yourself before you end up in the hospital.
    • If it isn't, and you struggle with it, take one shot, then add it to the relevant pages.
    • Toast your victory (preferably with cider) when you finally beat it.
      • Toast twice as much if you beat it on your first try.

For the rest of these examples, only apply to "That One" examples, Nintendo Hard examples, and other examples of tropes pertaining to video game difficulty:

  • If you have beaten something listed as such an example and you find it easy enough that you don't understand why it's an example, take a drink, but do refrain from getting into an Edit War.
  • If Scrappy Mechanic is linked or potholed, take a drink.
  • If an example goes into Walkthrough Mode, take a drink, and if you were struggling with that task, buy the editor who wrote it a drink before revising their example.
  • Take a sip for every instance of swearing.
  • Take a drink for every mention of thrown, damaged, or destroyed controllers, keyboards, handheld devices, etc.
  • Take a drink for every mention of sadism or masochism.
  • Take a sip if it's an arcade game example and references to quarter-eating or otherwise robbing the player's money is mentioned.
  • Double all drink amounts if the example is from an Atlus game.
    • Add a shot on top of your total drink if the "We get off on your tears" line is used.
    • And another if the Demi-Fiend is brought up.
  • Take a drink every time Nintendo Hard is used to shoehorn an example of That One Thing onto a work's main, non-YMMV page.
  • Take a drink for every mention of players criticizing efforts to make games easier. If the source of easiness is entirely optional (as in, not needed for 100% Completion), take an additional drink.
  • If you are reading a Dwarf Fortress example and the word "fun" is mentioned (it doesn't even have to be part of the phrase "Losing is fun!"), take a drink.
  • If someone invokes the stereotype of Japanese or Korean players being godly at video games, finish your drink.
  • If every boss in the game is listed as TOB or every level in the game is marked as TOL, finish your drink.
  • While reading an example about CAVE or Touhou Project games, if their respective True Final Bosses or Extra Stage bosses are mentioned, take a drink.
  • Take a drink every time a level or boss is described as being a Luck-Based Mission. Take another if the luck-based elements are described as being capable of inducing an instant Game Over.
  • If a shmup is described as Bullet Hell just for being Nintendo Hard, even though it lacks the screen-filling and often-intricate patterns needed to qualify for this trope, take a drink.

Work Link Ed.

  • Every time you see an internal link to a work page, take a shot.
    • Additional shot if it's an Anime or Manga.
    • Additional shot if it's Disney.
      • Substitute 2 shots for one glass if it has letters "N" or "M" in the title(Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, etc.)
      • Drain the bottle if you can't tell if there are N's or M's.
    • Take another shot if it's any Batman media.
    • Take another shot if it's a Webcomic.
    • Take another shot if it's MS Paint Adventures.
      • 2 shots and a glass if it's Homestuck.
      • Do not drink for any other work by Andrew Hussie.
    • 'Nother shot for Live-Action TV.
      • Third shot for Doctor Who.
      • Replace current beverage with moonshine when you see any Buffyverse work.(Only for the truly daring!)
    • Take another shot for Western Animation.
    • Take another shot if it's a Video Game.
      • Take yet another shot if the game was used for a gag in Penny Arcade.
      • Take another shot if it's any Shin Megami Tensei game.
      • Down the glass if that particular game has a catchy tune in its soundtrack. Then, take one shot for each catchy tune you find. God forbid you find Persona 4...


Entry Pimp edition

  • Take a sip - a small sip - whenever a Trope Overdosed work is referenced. (Warning: this may require a lot of alcohol.)
    • Take two if the entry doesn't actually fit the trope.


The TV Tropes Ultimate Drinking Challenge and Variations Of (For Professional Drunkards Only)

  • If you've completed all the previous challenges up to this point without passing out in a pool of vomit, try the Ultimate TV Tropes Drinking Challenge (TM): Take a sip for every internal link you see. Yes, EVERY link, including the sidebar menu on the left and the Indexes at the bottom of the page. Afterwords, follow some of those links to their pages. Lather, rinse, repeat.
    • For a ridiculous off-the-wall challenge, include red links and external links.
    • If you are still conscious at this point, switch out the "sips" for "shots of brandy."
      • NOTE: There may not be enough brandy in the world to complete the above challenge. If you run out a brandy, any form of alcohol will do. If you must, use hand sanitizer. It's not like you have your health to worry about, right?
    • If you haven't died of alcohol poisoning from the above challenges yet, you haven't followed any of the links. If you claim you have, you are probably either lying or not on TV Tropes. Or any other wiki, for that matter.
  • For those with a scroll wheel on their mouse, go for a 2-hour browsing session of TV Tropes where you are encouraged to open new tabs, but you are not allowed to close them. After the session, drink a bottle of your choice for every tab that you've opened.
  • For those who think you've sidestepped the "tab rule," we've got you covered. Look at your reading list. Take two shots for every trope page listed there. If your entire reading list is nothing but tvtropes pages add a x2 multiplier. Add another x2 multiplier for every All Blue Entry. Just Because.


Trope Pantheons Edition

  • Take a shot if you come across a link to a character that has been moved from said area. Take a swig if the character has been deleted.


... I Need a Freaking Drink...

  • Finish off any drinks on hand if you entered the page thinking/saying something like this.
    • Then take an Advil and a glass or two of water if you're not sober yet. Trust me, you need that water.

The Wiki Witch of the Web: [after an Archive Binge just to play the Drinking Game] *hic* Wiggy Spam Spam!

  • Take a glassful if the code still has the old index markup at the bottom of the page.


Alternative Title(s): TV Tropes Wiki, TV Tropes Drinking Game, Tv Tropes Will Ruin Your Liver, TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game

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