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Up the River, Down the River is a popular drinking game involving a deck of cards and two or more players. The game has multiple rounds with different guesses about the cards. A correct answer allows whoever is up to assign another player to drink, a wrong answer forces the answerer to drink. The first round is 2 seconds, then 4 and then 6 and so on. However, getting a pair means double the usual drinking time.

In the first round, players guess red or black, referring to the suit of the card. Next is higher or lower (than each player's first card), then inside of outside, then guess the suit. Next is the Fifth Element, where the players guess if their next card is odd, even or picture (Ace counts as picture.)

After this point, the player with the best five card poker hand assigns another player to chug a full beer. Then, the remaining cards are arranged face down in two rows and six columns. The top row is the give pile, the bottom is the take pile. The cards are flipped one at a time, and anyone with a card matching the one flipped will give or take the appropriate number of seconds of drinking based on the columns. The first is two seconds, next 4 and so on, except that the last is a full beer. If a player has a pair or three of a kind in their hand, the drinking time doubles or triples. If a card is flipped that no one has a match for, the top remaining card in the deck is used until there is a match.

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This is also a variant name for the Oh Hell trick-taking card game.