The Bar Game Guide
An interactive fun introduction to the Bar Game Guide in Thailand Enter any bar in Thailand and you will in all probability be invited to participate in a selection of games that are not seen anywhere else in the world. Thai bar girls love to entice tourists to stop for a drink and to play a few quick and relatively easy games with them. Relativity only extends to your ability to grasp the rules in the shortest time frame possible. The girls are true masters of any game here. Playing games in a bar is a great form of entertainment while beers or whatever other drink you fancy, keep flowing. You will no doubt, at various intervals, be invited to buy a drink or drinks for the lady you befriend. This could develop from your kind generosity or perhaps a gesture to a lack of skill on your part. However you need to be attentive as this could lead to buying drinks for the whole bar.
Building Blocks in a Pattaya Beer Bar
Bar GamesOne of the first bar games I was introduced to was not what you would call a game at all. It seemed more like a medium on which to test your strength. There was this enormous tree stump perched atop a short wooden structure of sorts.Embedded in the stump were hundreds of spent nails. Now the idea here was to take hold of a hammer which the young lady kindly provides and while taking turns with a single strike each time, try to bury a 5 inch nail into the stump. Easy enough said, but without due practice, this is not as simple as it appears. You may be required to buy the lady a drink should she beat you to this game. The bar game called The Tower is simply a strategy of removing small wooden blocks from anywhere on the structure and then placing it on top. Looks easy until the whole steeple topples. The first one that causes the collapse, loses. Two or more persons can play by taking turns to remove one block at a time. A bar game called Flippet is a contest of chance played by rolling two dice together and then flicking a numbered wooden wedge over. Each wedge has a single number 1 to 9. The first person to flip all nine numbers, wins the game. You are allowed to flip any wedge on what the fall of the dice shows. You would be entitled to flip both the singular numbers or the combination thereof. In other words, should you throw a three and a four, you can flip both these numbers or the total which would be seven. However if you keep getting numbers already disposed of, then you will have to keep trying until all the wedges are flipped. The bar game seen in the photo above requires your ability to simply transfer the single wooden square with the red circle through the opening contained therein. You may shift the other wooden shapes around but you may not pick any up or remove any from the box. No drinks need be forfeited to whoever wins this one.
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