Beer Pong House Rules Builder
Make your own beer pong house rules in about a minute. Pick your setup, tick the rules your house plays, and print a rules sheet to hang by the table. It starts loaded with our house rules, so change whatever your house does differently. Then you can finally end the bounce-shot argument for good.
How to use the house rules builder
- Name your house. The Garage, The Basement, Apartment 4B, whatever.
- Pick your setup: cups, re-racks, bounce shots, fingering and blowing, and who shoots first.
- Tick the rules you play. Not sure what one means? Hit the ? next to it.
- Print it and tape it to the wall, or copy it into the group chat before the party.
Every rule here has a full page with variations in our rules of beer pong guide.
Every rule in the builder
- Elbow rule: Elbows stay behind the table edge, or the shot doesn’t count.
- Balls back: balls back, shoot again.
- Defense on bounce shots: Swat a bounced ball, never one in the air. Block an air ball and it counts as a made cup.
- Spilled cup: Knock over your own cup and it counts as made.
- Redemption: Last cup falls? The losing team shoots until each player misses.
- Overtime: overtime. 3 cups each, sudden death, no re-racks.
- Island: call it on a lone cup before you shoot. Make it and pull a bonus cup. One call per player per game.
- Heating up / on fire: call it after 2 in a row. Make the 3rd and you’re on fire until you miss.
- Same cup: both balls in one cup means balls back plus 2 extra cups.
- Trick shot: a ball that comes back to you without touching the floor earns a trick shot.
- Celeb shot: once a game, pick anyone in the room to shoot for you.
- Sniper: catch a rebound off your cups and hit the shooter in the head for an extra cup.
- Traveling: a ball that rolls off one cup into another earns a bonus cup.
- Ring of fire: sink the front, center and both back corner cups first and you win on the spot.
- Death cup: hit a made cup nobody pulled and the game is over.
- Beaming: knock the other team’s last cup off the table and you win.
- Bermuda triangle: 3 cups, none touching. No re-rack, no island.
- Bitch cup: a guy who hits the center cup first gets nothing. No drink, and the cup stays.
- Troll rule: lose without making a cup and spend the next game under the table.
- Naked lap: get shut out as a team and take a lap around the house.
FAQ
What are standard beer pong house rules?
Most houses play 10 cups, two re-racks, bounce shots for two cups with defense allowed, balls back, redemption and the elbow rule. That’s what the builder starts with.
Who decides the house rules?
The house: whoever owns the table or is hosting. That’s rule #1. Post them before the first game and the house settles every dispute.
Can I save my rules?
Print them, or use “Copy as text” to paste them into a note or a group chat.