# Pyramid (drinking game) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pyramid_(drinking_game) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pyramid_(drinking_game).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_(drinking_game) > Source revision: 1297808096 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Drinking game played with playing cards This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed. (December 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Pyramid" drinking game – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Pyramid Cards are laid out in a pyramid shape, starting face-down and being turned over one by one Type Drinking Players 3-7 Cards 52 Deck Anglo-American Playing time 10 minutes Related games Ride the bus **Pyramid** is a [drinking game](/source/Drinking_game) played with a standard deck of playing cards. ## Set up One begins by creating a pyramid of cards by placing them face down on the table in rows (6 cards on the bottom row, 5 on the next, then 4, 3, 2, and 1 card peak on the top row). Next, the dealer passes out three cards to each player, face down. Players can look at their cards only once and should not let other players see them. ## Object The object of the game is to make other players drink based on what cards that they think you have. ## Game play - Turn over the bottom, left card. - If a player wishes, they may tell another player to drink a sip if they have a card with the same face value in their hand and place it on the card that is flipped over. - Alternatively, the player may "bluff" and pretend to have the card in question. The player told to drink can either take the designated drink(s) or call the bluff. If a player's bluff is called, that player must drink double the designated drinks. If the player was not bluffing, the player originally told to drink now has to drink double the designated drinks. A player who is forced to show his/her cards is entitled to exchange the used card for a new card from the deck. - Turn over the next card in the row. - After the bottom row is all flipped, continue on the next row. - The number of drinks corresponds to the row in which that card was flipped. For example, if the card is in the third row, one must play with three drinks). - To add more action to the game, players may be asked to lie their cards face down and remember them. If someone says the player is bluffing, the player has to find his card - taking out the wrong card results in a penalty where the player must drink twice the amount he would otherwise have dealt. Finally, when the pyramid is over, players take turns in memorizing their deck, in the right order. For every card they get wrong, an agreed penalty is dealt.[1] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [EatTheWorm.com - Drinking Games - Pyramid](https://web.archive.org/web/20091027100705/http://geocities.com/eattheworm_2000/games/pyramid.htm) v t e Drinking games List of drinking games Word games 21 Fuzzy duck La vache qui tache Never have I ever Zoom Schwartz Profigliano Pong games Baseball Beer pong/Beirut Beer pong with paddles Slam Table games Beer die/Snappa Boat race Flip cup Quarters Card games Around the world Horserace Kings Pyramid Scum / Asshole Quodlibet Dice games Biscuit Liar's dice Three man 7/11/2x Binge drinking games Beer mile Boot of beer Flunkyball Funneling Goon of Fortune Kastenlauf Keg stand Neknominate Power hour Shotgunning Wizard staff Yard of ale Miscellaneous Buffalo Detonator Fingers Ice luge Icing Category --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Pyramid (drinking game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_(drinking_game)) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_(drinking_game)?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.