The Twenty Questions: A Drinking Game

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Some friends and I accidentally invented a drinking game from the famous Twenty Questions.  The Questions are one of the tools used within the AA community to help people out with Step One, recognizing that they have a problem.
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Some friends and I accidentally invented a drinking game from the famous Twenty Questions.  The Questions are one of the tools used in Alcoholics Anonymous to help people recognize that they have a problem.
  
 
So that puts the game in pretty bad taste.  Everyone replaces the word ''drink'' with something else.  You work around down the questions, and you take a drink every time the answer is No.   
 
So that puts the game in pretty bad taste.  Everyone replaces the word ''drink'' with something else.  You work around down the questions, and you take a drink every time the answer is No.   
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#Have you ever been in a hospital or institution on account of _____ing?
 
#Have you ever been in a hospital or institution on account of _____ing?
  
For your edification, the questions were developed  in the 1930s, but they aren't used clinically anymore.  They've been replaced by lots of other tests with acronymous titles.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism#See_also]
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For your edification, the questions were developed  in the 1930s, but they aren't used clinically anymore.  They've been replaced by a bunch of acronymous questionnaires.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism#See_also]

Latest revision as of 17:16, 24 June 2011

Some friends and I accidentally invented a drinking game from the famous Twenty Questions. The Questions are one of the tools used in Alcoholics Anonymous to help people recognize that they have a problem.

So that puts the game in pretty bad taste. Everyone replaces the word drink with something else. You work around down the questions, and you take a drink every time the answer is No.

Please do not play this game with any alcoholics. I know diagnostics shouldn't be ironic, but if you play with the word drink, and you come out sober, please consider that you may have a problem. Actually no matter what word you play with, sobriety is diagnostic. Also diagnostic: if you play with something that you never do so you can get drunk. Also diagnostic: wanting to play this game. Here are the Twenty Questions, with the word drink ad-libbed out:[1]

  1. Do you lose time from work due to your _____ing?
  2. Is _____ing making your home life unhappy?
  3. Do you _____ because you are shy with other people?
  4. Is _____ing affecting your reputation?
  5. Have you ever felt remorse after _____ing?
  6. Have you gotten into financial dificulties as a result of your _____ing?
  7. Do you turn to lower companions and an inferior environment when _____ing?
  8. Does your _____ing make you careless of your family's welfare?
  9. Has your ambition decreased since _____ing?
  10. Do you crave a _____ at a definite time daily?
  11. Do you want a _____ the next morning?
  12. Does _____ing cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
  13. Has your efficiency decreased since _____ing?
  14. Is _____ing jeopardizing your job or business?
  15. Do you _____ to escape from worries or troubles?
  16. Do you _____ alone?
  17. Have you ever had a complete loss of memory as a result of your _____ing?
  18. Has your physician ever treated you for _____ing?
  19. Do you _____ to build up your self-confidence?
  20. Have you ever been in a hospital or institution on account of _____ing?

For your edification, the questions were developed in the 1930s, but they aren't used clinically anymore. They've been replaced by a bunch of acronymous questionnaires.[2]