Editing Drinking game (section)

=== Germany ===
[[File:Drinkinggame.jpg|thumb|upright|A wager cup<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
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Drinking games in 19th century Germany included [[Bierskat]], [[Elfern]], [[Rams (card game)|Rammes]] and [[Quodlibet (card game)|Quodlibet]],{{sfn|Haupt|1877|p=140}} as well as [[Schlauch (card game)|Schlauch]] and Laubober, probably the same game as [[Grasobern]]. But the "crown of all drinking games" was one with an ancient and distinctive name: Cerevis. One feature of the game was that everything went under a different name from normal. So the cards (''Karten'') were called 'spoons' (''Löffel''), the Sevens were 'Septembers' and the Aces were the 'Juveniles' (''junge Leichtsinn''). A player who used the normal names was penalised. Every time a card was played, it was supposed to be accompanied by humorous words, so if a [[Jack (playing card)|Jack]] or [[Unter (playing card)|Unter]] was played, the player might say something like "my merry ''Unterkasser''" (''Lustig mein Unterkasser'') or "long live my ''Unterkasser''" (''Vivat mein Unterkasser''). If his opponent beat it, he might say "hang the ''Unterkasser''" (''Hängt den Unterkasser''). The loser had to chalk up a figure such as a swallow, a wheel or a pair of scissors depending on the number of minus points gained and was only allowed to erase them once he had drunk the associated amount of beer.{{sfn|Lese-Stübchen|1862|p=238}}

Silver wager cups, also known as wedding cups, were used in Germany from the late 16th to mid 17th century. The smaller cup is on a pivot so both vessels can be face-up and filled with liquor. In wedding ceremonies, the man would drink from the larger vessel first, then turning the figure right side up, pass it to the woman, who would drink from the smaller cup; the challenge was for the two drinkers not to spill any liquor. They were also sometimes used during wine drinking boughts were a wager was placed if participant(s) could drink the contents of both sides without spilling a drop. In Germany they are known as ''Jungfrauenbecher'', or maiden cups.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hackenbroch |first1=Yvonne |author-link=Yvonne Hackenbroch |title=Wager Cups |journal=[[Antiques (magazine)|Antiques]] |date=May 1969 |volume=95 |number=5 |pages=692-695 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_magazine-antiques_1969-05_95_5_0/page/692/mode/2up?q=%22wager+cups%22&view=theater }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Alfred |title=Old Silver of Europe and America |publisher=[[Batsford Books|B. T. Batsford]] |year=1928 |page=202 |url=https://archive.org/details/bwb_KT-315-251/page/202/mode/2up?view=theater }}</ref> Replicas of the cups were frequently manufactured during the 1880s to 1910s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Culme |first=John |title=Nineteenth-Century Silver |publisher=Hamlyn for Country Life Books |year=1977 |page=215 |url=https://archive.org/details/nineteenthcentur0000culm/page/214/mode/2up?q=%22wager+cups%22 }}</ref>