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Pennying is a simple drinking game popular amongst students attending various universities throughout the United Kingdom. more...

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Unlike most drinking games, the rules of pennying are almost never explicitly declared to be in force; rather, by putting oneself in a social situation involving the consumption of alcohol, one is implicitly subjected to the rules should a \"Pennying\" situation occur. This state of affairs is most likely to be enforced at dinners known as Formal Halls where cheap wine is drunk and it is common for complete strangers to \"Penny\" each other. In Cambridge, pennying is especially prevalent at \"formal hall swaps\", or other dinner equivalent, between two dining societies- one female, one male. In most cases, sufficient wine will be provided so that there is enough to go round, and hence the aim is to get other people to drink as much as possible, or to avoid drinking oneself, due to the copious resources available. The occurrence is less common in pubs where drinks are larger and more expensive.

Rules Of Pennying

Accepted rules

Should someone manage to slip a penny into another person's drink after officially announcing pennying will take place on the night, the owner of the drink must completely consume it within a set period of time - usually two or three minutes or less, or in any case the next time the victim touches the glass - and in one go, i.e. without pausing between sips for breath or respite (quaffing/wacking the drink).; The victim of the pennying is thereafter said to have been \"pennied\".; The pennier cannot penny a glass that he or she has poured. As such, cooperation is often an essential part of the pennying process.; A person unknowingly slipping a penny into a drink that already contains one is obliged to consume that drink as if he or she themselves had been pennied (double-pennying).; The pennier must have a quantity of drink in his or her own glass to be eligible to penny. If someone pennies when his or her glass is empty, he or she is obliged to refill the glass and drink from it as if he or she has been pennied.; The owner of a pennied drink is allowed to keep the penny. Therefore, a \"pennied\" person has the small comfort of a free penny at the end of their forfeit, whereas someone guilty of \"double-pennying\" must forfeit both pennies to the owner of the drink.; It is generally frowned upon, possibly even to the point of taboo, to refuse to drink a pennied beverage, or to \"double-penny\" intentionally a beverage with the intention of earning a free drink.; If someone tries to penny a glass, but misses, he or she must down their own drink.; In Australia the official currency denomination used for pennying is either the ten cent (10c) coin or twenty cent (20c) coin, depending which university one considers; as such, pennying in Australia is known more widely as coining.; Paper money is invalid for the purposes of pennying. (See 'History of Pennying' below; as paper floats, the drink poses no danger to the Sovereign.); Professor Stephen Hawking is not to be pennied. This is not actually a rule, but is now widely accepted after two Robinson College students attending a Caius College formal hall were fined in excess of £50 and given a lifelong ban from the college for pennying his dessert.;