What Is Mingle City?

How can I get a bunch of different cliques to mingle on a bar crawl?

• I am planning a Bar Crawl. I assume that everyone knows what that is but I'll explain it just in case. I realize that not everyone can party as hard as the drunkest city in America, Milwaukee, according to Forbes magazine. So a bar crawl, or Tavern Tour, is where we rent a school bus and drive around to a bunch of different bars. In this case we are going to 6 different Bars, staying an hour at each of them. I will have 35-40 people on the tour and they will all be getting pretty drunk so that will help a little bit. But I want to have some sort of activity that will get all the different smaller groups to mingle as one big group. I need ideas though, something fun, but not too time/attention demanding. I'm also on a time and budget limit for this. Your ideas are greatly appreciated.

• Answer:

  With magic marker, starting with #1 on red poker chip, number consecutive #s up to 50 (plus or minus as you are expecting 35 to 40 folks). On Blue poker chips, do the same. Place all chips in container (bag?). First round: each person draws a chip and is required to find a person with the same #. Second round: All chips go back into the container. Each person draws a chip and is required to find a person having either the number before or the number following. As the group becomes more imbibbed/stonkered; the rules keep changing, i.e. 5 #s before or after WITH the same color/other color. This gets wild! Find two people having #s that their sums equal your number and so on. The variations are endless but more confusing and gets very hilarious.