This is some really easy shit, but I figured I’d go over some techniques you can use while playing beer pong. Beer pong’s an awesome way to get familiar with a girl, and it’s great for kino. But the BEST thing about it is it gets introductions out of the way, and there’s very little pressure. Keep in mind, some things may depend on the size of the party and your relationships with the other people there. Let’s assume you don’t know the girls (though this can still apply if you do).

You’re at a party where there’s some pong. Depending on what you want to do, you can have some guy partners- but at some point you NEED to play with a girl. First, get dibs for next game.

How do you get a girl to be your partner? There’s a number of ways but here are a few:

1. Find the girl and ask her to be your partner. It’s easy, but it’s no fun- you’re also showing interest and not being very dominant. It’s still a viable option, though. Even better if you hold her hand as you bring her to the table.

2. Find the girl and TELL her to be your partner. Just say “Come be my partner.” Equally easy, dominant, and if you say it right, you’re not really showing interest. I’ve done it a lot.

3. Stay at the table after getting dibs. Set up your cups when it’s time to play. THEN, look for whatever girl you have in mind, or find the nearest attractive one. Tell her to be your partner, or better yet, just motion for her to come over. She’ll come over and you can ask/tell her (feel free to have some flirty body language/eyes and a smile). Try to have your hand on the small of her back- or anywhere that seems good- while you ask.

Here’s where the fun starts.

There’s so many different things you can be doing during the game, I’d have to write a book to cover everything. So, some main points:

Keep it fun. If you’re being really competitive, you look like a huge tool. If you’re winning a bunch of games and staying on the table, you’re really only getting respect from the guys; the girls, for the most part, don’t give a shit (took me a long time to realize that- I get wayyy too competitive).

Tease her. Tease her when she misses. Tease the other team too (and if you can manage it, try to play against some girls). Use physical push/pull: Push her back when she misses and say something like “Oh my god, I never should’ve made you my partner!” Bring her back in when she hits a shot, and…

Be supportive. This applies to your words and your kino (like above). Get excited when she makes it- that means some high-fives, hugs, kisses, basically anything you want (Kissing’s a little tricky here: you can certainly go for a peck- which can easily lead to a quick makeout- or have her give you a peck on the cheek, but you obviously have to set up that sort of vibe from the start for it to work. But trust me, it does work). You can also be sort of standing behind her with your hands on her hips when she shoots. Just don’t be awkward about it- these are things you shouldn’t have to be consciously thinking about while you’re doing them.

Make her be supportive. I like to be superstitious: I’ll grab her and have my arm around her while I shoot, then I’ll proceed to do it every time from then on. She probably won’t even say anything about it, but if she does you just say you’re superstitious. You can have her blow on the ball before you shoot- for good luck. Try to get her into a more energized state overall, and make it so she’s rooting for you.

AMOG tactics: If you’re playing against guys- and especially if they can become AMOGs later- try to piss them off a little bit. Don’t be obnoxious, but you can do little things like holding up the game for a sec to talk to people, not setting up your cups perfectly, laugh at them any time they get too competitive, basically anything that makes them look a bit douchey. If you respect them, be playful/friendly about it- we all do this shit to each other every day, it doesn’t make you an asshole. What it does is raise your value with the girls- since most girls think it’s retarded that guys are so competitive with beer pong. It’ll also hopefully fuck with the guys' confidence a bit.

Female opponents: Like I said above, try to get girls to play against- sometimes this isn’t possible; depends on structure of the pong games. You should be teasing them when they miss, but be friendly- don’t piss them off unless it’s a joke. Also feel free to congratulate them when they make a good shot. Your main goal is to win them over so you can talk to them after the game. If they’re cockblocks (AKA your partner’s friends), definitely win them over- in other words, watch it with the teasing; you don’t want to do anything that gives them a remote possibility of getting mad. ALSO, your target may be an opponent, whether you wanted it that way or that’s just how it worked out. That’s fine, just treat her like a target.

If you lose the first game, congratulate the opponents- maybe chat with them for a bit- and leave the table. Now you can either immediately talk to your partner, or you can break away from her for a bit and talk to her later (AND, if you played against girls, you can talk to them too- keep in mind, you should already be talking to just about everybody, but you might as well put some more focus into these girls).

If you win the game, stay at the table IF YOU WANT TO- you definitely don’t have to, and if you’re feeling vibes with this girl, it’s much easier to run full-on game away from the table. It’s kind of like texting: if she wants to play again, feel free to play. But I warn you, you run the risk of killing the vibe the longer you stay “beer pong partners,” as opposed to just regular people (not that you will kill the vibe- you may in fact do the opposite- just remember that it’s still usually better to get them 1 on 1 away from the table).

If you did a swell job, congratulations- you now have 3 girls (or more, depending on how many games you played) who you can pretty much consider your friends. Hopefully you’ve also built up some attraction/comfort with all 3. This may not seem like a big deal, but the whole point is that you used the game of beer pong basically as an “opener,” you used it to build a connection, and now you’ve gotten further with 3 girls- in a shorter amount of time- than you probably could’ve if you had just approached them at the party. And you did all this while just having a good time, with very minimal pressure. At this point, physical escalation is the main key to unlocking the treasure (some more comfort-building probably won’t hurt either. But remember, the guys who can pick up girls in 5 minutes don’t waste their time going through the motions- they keep it in the moment and they escalate fast).

If you did a great job, you should be able to f-close with your partner in the next 10 minutes or so, assuming you have the logistics worked out (and a k-close is basically guaranteed unless you’ve been doing something wrong).

There’s more to this, but if I get more in-depth, it becomes very situational, and not every situation is the same. Keep in mind, this is just shit I’ve done many times before, it works for me, and there’s no guarantee it’ll work for you. We’re all different.