# Power hour

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{{Short description|Drinking game}}
{{Infobox game
| other_names   = 21 for 21
| subtitle      = Drinking Game
| players       = Any number
| playing_time  = 60 minutes
| setup_time    = Varies
| random_chance = None
| skills        = 
}}

'''Power hour''' or '''21 for 21''' is a [drinking game](/source/drinking_game) where players must consume a specified number of alcohol shots within one hour. Variants include drinking one shot of beer every minute for an hour, or 60 shots of beer within one hour.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bash |first=Alex |title=The Imbible: Drinking Games for Times You'll Never Remember with Friends You'll Never Forget |date=2008-08-05 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-4299-8303-7 |pages=201-202}}</ref> In the United States, a power hour event is often associated with a person's 21st birthday when they reach the [legal drinking age](/source/Legal_drinking_age).<ref name="Rutledge">{{cite journal
 |last1=Rutledge
 |first1=Patricia C.
 |first2=Aesoon
 |last2=Park
 |first3=Kenneth J.
 |last3=Sher
 |date=2008-05-20
 |title=21st Birthday Drinking: Extremely Extreme
 |url=http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ccp763511.pdf
 |journal=[Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology](/source/Journal_of_Consulting_and_Clinical_Psychology)
 |volume=76
 |issue=3
 |pages=511–516
 |doi=10.1037/0022-006X.76.3.511
 |pmid=18540744
 |pmc=2668868
 |access-date=2010-05-20
 |archive-date=2010-12-08
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208000550/http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ccp763511.pdf
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |author=Ruth Brown
 |date=2008-03-05
 |title='Power hour' not only way to turn 21. That magic birthday now comes with new places, new parties and new troubles if not careful
 |url=http://media.www.sdsucollegian.com/media/storage/paper484/news/2008/03/05/News/power.Hour.Not.Only.Way.To.Turn.21-3252990.shtml
 |publisher=The Collegian
 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A '''Century Club''' or '''Centurion''' is an alternative to a power hour which involves consuming 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-11 |title=100 Shots of Beer in 100 Minutes – Century Club Challenge - Slosh Spot |url=https://www.sloshspot.com/blog/100-shots-of-beer/ |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=www.sloshspot.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203080633/https://www.sloshspot.com/blog/100-shots-of-beer/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bash |first=Alex |title=The Imbible: Drinking Games for Times You'll Never Remember with Friends You'll Never Forget |date=2008-08-05 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-4299-8303-7 |pages=202}}</ref>

==Consequences==

Players often have difficulty completing the specified number of drinks as the rate of consumption raises their [blood alcohol content](/source/blood_alcohol_content) to high levels.<ref name="Reha">{{cite web
 |author=Bob Reha
 |date=May 26, 2004
 |title=21st Birthday is a Deadly One
 |url=http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/05/26_rehab_colldrink/
 |publisher=[Minnesota Public Radio](/source/Minnesota_Public_Radio)
 |access-date=2010-05-20
 |archive-date=2011-06-29
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629135319/http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/05/26_rehab_colldrink/
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref> The rate of alcohol consumption makes the players intoxicated within a short period of time.<ref name="Zernike">{{cite news
 |author=Kate Zernike
 |date=March 12, 2005
 |title=A 21st-Birthday Drinking Game Can Be a Deadly Rite of Passage
 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE0D8143CF931A25750C0A9639C8B63
 |work=[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)
 |access-date=2010-05-20
 |archive-date=2012-11-10
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110013047/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE0D8143CF931A25750C0A9639C8B63
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref>

== Trademark controversy ==
In 2010, Power Hour LLC, run by Steve Roose who markets a DVD game named "Power Hour", registered a trademark of the same name. Soon after, the company began sending cease-and-desist orders to [Ali Spagnola](/source/Ali_Spagnola), a musician who had released an album also titled ''Power Hour''.<ref name="pcpTM">{{cite news|url=https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertainment-2/can-a-drinking-game-be-trademarked-local-musician-ali-spagnola-hopes-not-1343746/|title=Can a drinking game be trademarked? Local musician Ali Spagnola hopes not.|last=Welsh|first=Margaret|date=May 20, 2010|newspaper=[Pittsburgh City Paper](/source/Pittsburgh_City_Paper)|access-date=June 13, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |last=Masnick
 |first=Mike
 |date=May 11, 2010
 |title=Can We Make A Power Hour Drinking Game Around Ridiculous Trademark Disputes?
 |url=http://techdirt.com/articles/20100510/1048079359.shtml
 |publisher=[techdirt](/source/techdirt)
 |access-date=June 13, 2010
 |archive-date=May 15, 2010
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100515125404/http://techdirt.com/articles/20100510/1048079359.shtml
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref>  Spagnola announced her intentions to fight the claims, and an intellectual-property professor from the University of Pittsburgh 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 Power Hour LLC can't have any trademark rights at all."<ref name="pcpTM"/> In December 2012, courts ruled in Spagnola's favor.<ref>{{cite web
 |title=Opposition No. 91195461
 |url=http://www.alispagnola.com/powerhour/img/TTAB-Power-Hour-Decision.pdf
 |publisher=UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
 |access-date=23 January 2013
 |date=31 December 2012
 |archive-date=24 January 2013
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124071125/http://www.alispagnola.com/powerhour/img/TTAB-Power-Hour-Decision.pdf
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Drinking games}}

Category:Drinking culture

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