This game was invented in the late 80's by a Penn State student by the name of
Rob Davies, hence the name "The Rob Game". It is played using at least
one deck of cards. The cards are distributed evenly among all players and at the
cue, all players flip the top card in their stack, the lowest card flipped
drinks the face value of the card. This game may be played with any number of
participants. With larger groups the standard practice is to add a drinker for
every fifth person playing; for example, if there are 5 people playing, the
lowest 2 cards would drink face value, if there are 10 people playing, it would
be the lowest 3 cards. In the event of a tie among the
lowest numbers, drinkers are assigned by card value, not by the number of people
assigned to drink. Using more than one deck of cards is highly recommended.
There is an advanced version strictly for the more experienced players which
uses pinochle decks rather than regular playing cards.