| Players | Any number |
|---|---|
| Setup time | Varies |
| Playing time | 60 minutes |
| Random chance | None |
| Skill(s) required | Body weight/Alcohol tolerance |
Power Hour, with its variants Centurion (aka Century Club) and 21 for 21, is a drinking event where player(s) drink a specified number of alcohol shots within one hour. Variants include one shot of beer every minute for an hour or 21 shots within one hour. In the USA, a power hour event is often associated with a person's 21st birthday when they reach the legal drinking age.[1][2]
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The game's rules appear simple; however, players often have difficulty completing the specified number of drinks as the rate of consumption necessary to win many forms of this game can, depending on the player's weight and other factors, raise their blood alcohol content to high levels.[1][3] The rate of alcohol consumption makes the players intoxicated within a short period of time.[4]
Each shot of beer contains 1.5 fluid ounces (US) (44mL), for a total of 90 fl. oz. (5.63 US pints, 2.66 litres, or 4.68 Imperial units pints) of consumption during the power hour. For purposes of blood alcohol content, this amount of beer is equivalent to 7.5 drinks. In the Centurion variant, beer shots are drunk one per minute for 100 minutes, with a shot size of 35mL, totaling 7.4 US pints (3.5 litres or 6.16 Imperial pints), or 9.9 drinks. There are many difficult variants of Centurion, amongst them are Gladiator and Spartan. Gladiator is 200 shots of beer in 200 minutes, and Spartan is 300 shots in 300 minutes.
In 2010, Steve Roose, who markets a DVD game named "Power Hour", registered a trademark of the same name and soon after began sending cease-and-desist orders to Ali Spagnola, a musician who had released an album also entitled Power Hour.[5][6] Spagnola has announced her intentions to fight the claims, and an intellectual-property professor from the University of Pittsburgh has stated that "if 'Power Hour' is a generic description of 'a drinking game that involves drinking a shot of alcohol each minute for an hour,' then Mr. Roose can't have any trademark rights at all."[5]
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