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Natural Disasters is a hilarity-inducing variation on the classic drinking game "Landmines."

Invite your friends to gather around your low, smallish table. Appoint a dealer to shuffle and give out cards. Grab your quarter, and ask everyone to open their drink. Traditionally, a hearty yelling of "NATURAL DISASTERRRRS!" is in order. And you're ready to play!

The play of Natural Distasters is relatively simple: the dealer flips a card, and the active player then spins a quarter and drinks for HALF THE FACE VALUE OF THE CARD (rounded up). For example, if one were to receive a 10, five seconds of drinking is kindly asked. For a 3, you would skate by with a mere two seconds. All players count out loud to ensure adequate intoxication. Once the short time limit is reached, the player quickly puts their drink back on the table, and must now pick up the still-spinning quarter with the hand the drink was in. If the player accomplishes this task, the quarter is passed to right and a new turn begins. However, if the quarter falls to the table before the active player picks it up, said player must replay his or her turn until success is achieved.

-For the placing of landmines, there are some nuanced distinctions of expertise. If the predator places the landmine well, he will have trapped the quarter underneath its concave bottom. This is known as a "clean" hit. If the quarter rebounds or shoots out from under the landmine, however, the hit is condemned as "sloppy," forcing the miner himself to drink along with the active player. Regardless of whether a mining is clean or sloppy, the active player will probably have to replay the turn anyway. All mines, clean and sloppy, stay on the table. In truth anything that should appear on the table, so long as the game is responsible for its appearance, is permanent.