Does it count if I was drinking anyway?

I've never even heard of I Never until I was in my late 30s or so. And I saw it in fanfic. Never heard of that Marco Polo game, never heard of calling Jinx when two people say the same thing.

And no, I didn't grow up in a monastic community.

Never heard of that Marco Polo game

Me either! I still don't get it.

I played I Never, although not often. My favorite was a game called Hands Down, which was really loud and sort of raucous, and awesome once you were good and drunk. I sucked at Quarters, but there was another game with dice called, I think, Mexican, that I loved, too.

I would last about five minutes in a drinking game now, I bet.

A friend taught me a variation of that game but not called "I Never". I think it was just called the bean game or something. You've got a can and everyone starts with the same number of beans. You name something you've done and put in your bean. Anyone else who's also done it can put in their bean. The person who gets rid of their beans first wins. So of course the game tended towards mentioning the weird in the hopes no one else had done such-and-such before.

there was another game with dice called, I think, Mexican, that I loved, too.

Mexicali! That was fun. I think it's like Yahtzee, except I haven't actually played Yahtzee so I'm not sure.

I was actually pretty good at Quarters. Complicated games where you had to remember things - Silent Football, Whales Tails, etc., on the other hand, I could never even learn well enough to viably play.

There was an episode of 90210 where they played something like I Never bit they called it Skeletons in the Closet. Good job hanging on to the important stuff, memory of mine.

Our other drinking games were theatrey response time games, but with no physical coordination required. Much more likely to require you to remember names of celebrities (better if they had names starting with the same initials (thank you Marilyn Monroe)) or Zoom Schwartz Profigliano (I have no idea how that goes anymore).

(I have no idea how that goes anymore).

I never figured out how it went back then.

I always liked the Question drinking game, too: you gotta respond to every question with another question, no repeats and within 5 seconds or ya gotta drink.

I never liked dice or card games, or quarters.

I just watched all of The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town. I'd missed seeing middle-aged Canadian dudes in drag! And never in my life have I been so distracted by Mark McKinney's junk.