Drinking Game / Touhou Project

ZUN's already ahead of you.

Official Material in General

• Take a drink every time a religion other than Shinto is brought up.
• Take a drink every time a character with a name of non-Japanese origin is introduced.
  • Two if it's of Western origin.
• Take a drink every time a song with trumpets appears in the soundtrack.
• Drink an entire bottle when you see a male character.

Official Shooting Games

• Take a sip every time you die.
  • For every bomb you have left over when you die, take an additional sip. (Except in Mountain of Faith and Subterranian Animism, which use the "bombs are cast from your shot power" mechanic instead, or if you're going for a no-bomb run.)
  • Drown your sorrows if you lost your last life with a 1-Up on the screen.
• Take a celebratory drink every time you capture a spell card on your first try.
• Every time you 1CC a game for the first time, toast your victory with a drink. Take an additional one for every difficulty level above Easy.
• Take a drink every time a boss uses an Interface Screw (such as Seija flipping or rotating the screen).
• Take a drink every time you fight a character who is playable or became playable in a later game.
• Take a drink every time a boss uses a survival spellcard.
• In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, if you are playing on Easy and you choose to park yourself in front of Cirno for her Icicle Fall spellcard, chug for the duration of the spellcard.
• In Double Dealing Character:
  • Take a drink every time you max out your life counter.
  • Take a drink every time you bomb to get the auto-collect bonus.
    • Take two if you get a bomb fragment and complete a new bomb with it.
    • Take three if you get a life fragment and complete a new life with it.
    • Take a drink every time you die on purpose to give yourself more bombs.

Fan Works / Fandom

• Take a drink every time ZUN appears.
  • If he has a container of beer in his hand, drink the amount equal to whatever he's got.
  • If you personally meet ZUN, buy a pitcher and split it with him.
• Chug every time Suika or Yuugi is drunk or carrying some sort of alcohol. If both are present and involved with booze, throw a party.
• Take a drink every time someone makes a reference to Sakuya and breast pads.
  • Take two if "PAD" is written in Roman characters.
  • Take three if Sakuya is about to kill whoever brought it up.
    • Take four if she's directing her anger at the reader/viewer.
• Take a drink every time Remilia is cowering or otherwise demonstrating some form of "Charisma Break".
• Take a drink every time Yuyuko is portrayed as a Big Eater.
  • Take two if she's trying to eat Mystia or has eaten her.
    • And another if KFC is referenced.
• Take a drink every time Touhou is crossed over with another Shoot 'Em Up series in a piece of visual art. Take two if the game being crossed over is not a CAVE game.
  • Chug if the crossover in question is an entire game.
• Take a drink every time Kiso's resemblance to Murasa is mentioned.
• Take a drink every time Reimu's armpits are the focus of the work.
• Take a drink every time you listen to a remix/arrange of "Bad Apple!!" and it isn't "Bad Apple!! feat. nomico" or a remix/arrange thereof.^note We'd say to drink apple cider, but non-alcoholic drinks go against the whole point of a drinking game.
• Take a drink every time Marisa says "(da) ze".
  • Slightly more sane version: Only take a drink if she's saying "ze" in romaji.
• Take a drink every time you play a Touhou arrange in a music game. (osu!! and other "simfile" games don't count.)
  • Take another if the chart you're playing has the game's highest difficulty rating^note Exceptions, due to these games rarely using their highest ratings in practice: Level 16 and up in SOUND VOLTEX (15 or 16 on the old scale), Level 14 and up in DanceDanceRevolution, Level 15 and up in the smartphone version of Groove Coaster, Level 85 and up in CROSS×BEATS, Level 8.50 and up in GITADORA, Level 46 and up in pop'n music, and Level 12 and up in maimai..
  • Take an additional drink if it's any of the following songs: "Cirno's Perfect Math Class", "Marisa Stole the Precious Thing", or "Bad Apple!! feat. nomico".
• Take a drink every time something weird is explained by a "forbidden template":
  • Magic.
  • Eirin's shady new drug.
  • Yukari is fooling around again.
  • It's a Moriya Shrine conspiracy.
• Take a drink every time someone looks at Touhou fan works and asks "What anime is this?"
  • Take an extra drink for every fan who rages about it.
• Take a drink every time you are playing another Shoot 'Em Up and someone who's watching compares it to Touhou.
• If you are browsing This Very Wiki and you see Touhou fanart as an image page, take a drink.
  • If it actually has a source listed, take two drinks.
    • If artist permission was granted, take three. If the artist is Japanese, four.
• If you're cosplaying a Touhou character, take a drink every time someone addresses you with a meme related to your character.
  • If you're cosplaying Reimu:
    • If someone mentions your armpits, take a drink and hit them with the empty glass.
    • If someone actually donates money to you^note Be careful, this could be seen as panhandling depending on jurisdiction, use it to buy yourself a drink.
  • If you're cosplaying Sakuya, someone mentions breast pads to you, and you actually are wearing pads, finish your drink, take your pads out, and hit them with it.
  • If you're cosplaying Murasa and someone mistakes you for cosplaying Kiso, take a drink. Do the same if it's the reverse, as well.
• Take a sip every time you see Cirno and the number 9 together somehow.
  • Also, take a drink every time Cirno fails on math.
  • If it's Cirno Day^note September 9, give a toast before you start drinking.
• Take a shot every time Meiling is called China by someone.
• Take a drink every time you listen to a cover with Touhou instruments, with ZUNpets included.
  • Take three sips when that instrument isn't included.
• Take a drink every time a fan art or fan video refers to Touhou PC-98 character(s).
  • Take a few extra drinks to calm yourself if said PC-98 characters are compared to their Windows counterpart in a power-level debate (e.g. Yumeko vs Sakuya, Elly vs Komachi or Gengetsu and Mugetsu vs Remilia and Flandre).