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  2. Kottabos - Wikipedia

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    Kottabos (Ancient Greek: κότταβος) was a game of skill played at Ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It involved flinging wine-lees (sediment) at a target in the middle of the room. [ 1 ]

  3. Drinking game - Wikipedia

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    Drinking games were enjoyed in ancient China, usually incorporating the use of dice or verbal exchange of riddles. [3]: 145 During the Tang dynasty (618–907), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player ...

  4. Kottabos (game) - Wikipedia

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  5. List of drinking games - Wikipedia

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    Games portal; Beer bong; Pub crawl; Pub gamesgames which are or were played in pubs, bars, inns, and taverns, particularly traditional games played in English pubs. Most are indoor games, though some are played outdoors. List of public house topics; Marathon du Médoc; Long-distance race involving alcohol; World Series of Beer Pong

  6. Category:Drinking games - Wikipedia

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    This category contains drinking games (games with a more than incidental component involving the consumption of alcoholic beverages). Most of these are tabletop games , and some are also pub games .

  7. Symposium - Wikipedia

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    A game sometimes played at symposia was kottabos, in which players swirled the dregs of their wine in a kylix, a platter-like stemmed drinking vessel, and flung them at a target. Another feature of the symposia were skolia , drinking songs of a patriotic or bawdy nature, performed competitively with one symposiast reciting the first part of a ...

  8. Gnathaena - Wikipedia

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    This painting, on the inside of a kylix, depicts a hetaira playing kottabos, a drinking game played at symposia in which the participants flicked the dregs of their wine at a target. Gnathaena (Ancient Greek: Γνάθαινα) was an Athenian hetaira (plural: hetairai), a class of ancient Greek prostitutes who were companions to wealthy men. [1]

  9. Bryn Mawr Painter - Wikipedia

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    The figure is a participant in a Greek symposium (drinking party) and is shown playing the popular game of kottabos, in which contestants attempted to hit various types of targets with wine dregs flung from the bottom of a kylix.