Hangover Cures Around the World

In honor of the overindulgence that inevitably piggybacks the holidays, our team cooked up a little promotion for January that we like to call “Cheers to the New Year” trivia… one of our more brilliant ideas, if we do say so ourselves. The first game of the month, which conveniently fell on New Year’s Day, offered our first challenge: Write 15 trivia questions about hangover cures. While we suspected that our collective experience would be enough to write two or three games, we decided to back ourselves up with some hard-hitting scientific fact. We rolled up our sleeves and scoured the internet for time-honored remedies to post-party misery . The result: a game that, in retrospect, could have been titled: “Hangover: The World Tour.”

Too many Margaritas in Mexico? Try some Menudo.

The Polish take shots of pickle juice, while Australians slather vegemite on toast.

Our favorite remedy, by far, was courtesy of the Irish who would bury the ailing person up to his neck in moist river sand. We’d like to meet the person who first volunteered to try this one out… and we’re pretty sure it involved a dare prior to sobering up.

The ancients had their own way of dealing with the morning after a rowdy toga party, with the Romans serving up deep-fried canary, while the Greeks opted for sheep’s lungs.

Now, in the interest of fairness, we did pepper the game less exotic remedies like spoonfuls of honey, a good Bloody Mary, and (who knew?!) a healthy helping of asparagus. If you’re feeling very brave, mix some whisky, coffee, Tabasco, raw egg, orange juice and pepper together. (Hey, it beats a fried canary!)

So essentially, what started out as the kickoff to our January promotion ended up being quite an educational experience – for us as well as our players! Go ahead, test out some of our research and let us know how you fare. In the meantime, we’ll move on to the next topic in the Cheers to the New Year Trivia series: Beer… we’re just glad we know how to kill the morning misery if the “research” gets out of hand.

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