How to Play Suck and Blow with Cards

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Suck and Blow is a fun, interactive card game for parties and social gatherings with an added twist. If you're good with using your lips, you'll excel in passing a playing card back and forth between people. Even if you're not successful in passing the card, you'll still have the opportunity to use your lips on the person next to you.

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Learning the Basic Rules of Suck and Blow

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    You only need one card to pass around between everyone. If you want to play with multiple cards being passed for a faster-paced game, get a pack of cards to use. This game can be taken seriously, but more than likely the group is going to be laughing and having fun.
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    Usually suck and blow is played in a mixed crowd and the circle is seated boy-girl-boy-girl. At some point you will be kissing the person to your left or right if you fumble while passing the playing card.
    • Decide as a group whether you're going to pass the card clockwise or counterclockwise.
    • If you're with your significant other or there's someone in the group you've been wanting to kiss, try and position yourself next to them for the game.
    • To minimize awkwardness, have friends sit next to each other.
    • You can disregard the opposite gender seating if your group's preferences are different.
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    The first person places the card on their lips and sucks in air to keep it stuck there without any hands. Inhale through your mouth only so you use as much air as possible to keep the card attached to your lips.
    • As the game continues, the pace will pick up because everyone may start getting out of breath and possibly drop the card.
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    Get close to your neighbor's face and without hands, transfer the card to their lips. Blow on the card to push it to their lips as they suck in to receive the card. You may need a practice round so that everyone can get comfortable with the motions.
    • Have everyone hold their hands behind their back to keep from cheating.
    • The card transfer can get confusing as you try and remember to suck on the card to receive it and blow to get rid of it.
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    When the card falls, the two people who dropped it have to kiss. If you drop the card on your own in between passes, you have to kiss the person to your right if you're going counterclockwise or to your left if you're going clockwise.
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    You can either restart the whole game from the first player if the card is dropped. Or instead, you can continue playing from the person who just dropped the card. Another variation is to reverse the direction of the passing when someone drops the card.
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Making the Game Even More Thrilling

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    Another rule you can add is that the playing card gets torn in half every time someone drops it. So the card will be halved, then quartered, then start to diminish to almost nothing as the game goes on. After a while, there will be less of a playing card in play and more lips. [1]
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    If everyone has gotten comfortable with passing the card to the person to their right, switch the direction the card is passed in the circle. The new partners won't be used to each other and there may be many more turns where the card is dropped.
    • You can also switch up the seating arrangement to make things interesting.
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    If everyone in your group is 21 or older, suck and blow can be a drinking game if you make anyone who drops the card take a drink or a shot. If two people drop a card, they both take a drink and if one person manages to drop the card on their own, they're the solo drinker. [2]
    • You can wait to start playing this game until everyone is already a little buzzed so there are less inhibitions.
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    As the game heats up it can be hard to remember when you're supposed to inhale to keep the card on your lips. It's easy to get distracted when someone else's face is coming close to you and you might get startled and drop the card. Focus on sucking in to hang on to the card right up until the card is on the other person's lips and then you can blow on it.
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      • If you're worried about your breath or lips, be sure to bring along mints and ChapStick.
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      Warnings

      • If you're playing this as a drinking game, be extremely cautious with alcohol consumption. Set an overall limit if need be since it can be easy to forget how much everyone has been drinking.
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      • Don't play this game if it's flu season or if someone in the group has a communicable disease.You don't want to risk the health of the whole group.
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      Things You'll Need

      • Playing cards
      • Group of willing players

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      References

      1. ↑ http://www.realbeer.com/fun/games/games-132.php
      2. ↑ http://www.drinkinggamezone.com/drinking-games/suck-and-blow/

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      Suck and Blow is a fun party game where everyone uses their lips to pass a card back and forth between each other. To play, first grab a single playing card from a deck. Then, have everyone sit in a circle, and choose one player to pass the card first. That player places the card against their lips and sucks in to hold it in place. Then, they turn to the player on their left and pass the card to their lips without using their hands by blowing on it. The other player has to suck in to hold the card against their lips. Once they have the card, they pass it to the player on their left the same way. Players continue passing the card clockwise around the circle. If two players drop the card between them, they have to kiss. Once the card has been dropped, you can continue the game in the same direction, or switch directions so everyone is passing the card to their right now.

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