Star Wars
The Drinking Game


This is an edited version of the original post along with other people's additions. Unfortunately, I don't know who it was that made the first version of this game (hints would be appreciated). 

To play the Star Wars Drinking game, you will need:


The Star Wars Trilogy on tape (one movie for a short game) 
An ample supply of your favorite beverage (milk, right?) 
A really good sound system, so the explosions seem to happen all around you. Kapow! (optional) 

Begin by inserting your weatherbeaten "Star Wars" videotape into the big slot on your VCR. Dim the lights for dramatic effect, and play the tape. The game begins right as "20th Century Fox" appears on the screen. 

Once the game has begun, you watch the movie for the listed events. Every time one of them occurs, everybody takes a sip of their drink 

Drink when:

Someone has a bad feeling about this. 
It's their only hope. 
An entire planet is described as having one climate. 
Somebody gets choked. 
A woman other than Leia is on screen 
An old Jedi starts to ramble about the Force. (Vader counts.) 
Somebody's hand gets cut off. 
A gigantic technological marvel explodes in a single blast. 
There is a tremor in the Force. 
It's not someone's fault 
One or more heroes are almost eaten by a Thing 
A Jedi is much more powerful than he looks 
Someone exclaims "No!" 
Someone does something apparently suicidal that turns out to be a good idea 
Twice if it's not Han 
Someone wears the same outfit in all three movies--it counts if 
they change at the end 
Someone is mind-controlled using the Force 
People kiss 
A good guy wears white or a bad guy wears black

Twice if a bad guy wears white and a good guy wears black (for uniforms, only the first person on screen counts) 
Three times if someone hovering in between wears gray 
Every time you find yourself talking to the people on screen 
An elaborately made up alien has no lines 
Someone or something tries to get money from Han 
Some ship crashes into something after being hit. 
Someone has a light saber duel (includes just using light saber) 
An Ewok dies, and the camera lingers longer than it did when the Death Star exploded, killing billions of people. (Fourteen seconds. Count'em.) 
It is Luke's destiny. 
Luke whines. 
Luke discovers a long-lost relative. 
Luke fights monsters or savages. 
Luke does some nifty acrobatic flip. 
Luke teeters on the brink of a chasm. 
Luke is upside-down 
Luke and Lando are in the same place at the same time 
Twice if they speak to each other 
Luke's parentage is Foreshadowed 
Luke refuses to take someone's advice 
Luke yells "Artooooo!" 
Leia insults somebody. 
Leia wears an outfit that covers everything except her face and hands 
Twice if it covers her neck 
Three times if she's almost totally nude 
Obi-Wan Kenobi materializes for a guest appearance. 
Obi-Wan Kenobi plays detective. ("...Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.") 
Han brags about the Millenium Falcon. 
Anybody insults the Millenium Falcon. 
Something doesn't work on the Falcon 
Twice if it's the hyperdrive 
Yoda uses bad grammar. 
Yoda talks like a fortune cookie. 
R2-D2 gets thrashed. 
R2-D2 plugs into the wrong socket and his head spins around. 
C-3PO loses a body part. (Take two drinks if he is completely dismembered.) 
C-3PO informs us of just how many forms of communication he's familiar with 
A Rebel pilot is of a race other than white 
Twice if they're non human (co-pilots count) 
A Rebel Pilot says "Nice Shot..." 
A Rebel Pilot says "I've been hit..." 
Tarkin brags about the Death Star. 
The Emperor cackles evilly. 
The Emperor has foreseen something. 
Vader runs into one of his kids and doesn't recognize them 
Twice if he tries to kill them 
Boba Fett talks. 
Stormtroopers shoot everywhere but where they're aiming. 
Stormtrooper armor proves useless. 
Any Imperial Ship is destroyed 
A TIE fighter explodes for no reason. 


The game ends when a bunch of Ewoks start dancing. No matter what you've been drinking, you will remember this image. The last person to give up drinking on each cue is the winner. Of course, ties are possible.
If at some point you find that no one can successfully operate the VCR anymore, the game may as well be abandoned.