Spin the bottle
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| Spin the Bottle | |
|---|---|
| Players | usually 6 or more |
| Age range | preteen and above |
| Setup time | less than 5 minutes |
| Playing time | variable |
| Rules complexity | Low |
| Strategy depth | Low |
| Random chance | High |
| Skills required | Kissing, bottle spinning |
Spin the bottle is a party game in which several players sit in a circle. The game starts by one player spinning a bottle. Whomever the bottle points to, the spinner must kiss. The person being kissed becomes the next spinner. Traditionally, the spinner may spin again if the bottle points to a player of the same or opposite (depending on the players) gender. Spin the bottle is not a game in the traditional sense of having winners and losers. It is primarily used as an excuse for young people to engage in the activity of making out.
[edit] Variants
The game can also be played in combination with Truth or Dare. In this variation, the spinner gets to ask the person whom the bottle points to an intimate, personal question, which must be answered truthfully. If the answerer does not wish to answer the question, then they must agree to perform a dare, which might include kissing a person of the spinner's choice. Yet another variant makes the spinner announce a given dare before the spin, which the person the bottle ends up pointing to performing the dare afterwards. This might of course be the person spinning, which tends to keep the dares somewhat more modest.
In another command performance version of the game the person at whom the base of the bottle points orders the one on the thin end to kiss any other of the players. A high stakes variant of the game requires that the person that the bottle is pointing to has to take off an item of clothing until one player is naked.
Often spinning a bottle is used as a means of random selection for another kissing game known as Seven Minutes in Heaven.
