It’s not like we need to improve Bones. It’s a fun, well-made and entertaining show. But everything is better as a drinking game!

How would a Bones drinking game work? We have 20 to choose from, ranked in order of least to most dangerous — play at your own risk. Cheers!


#20 Drink whenever Hodgins explains a conspiracy theory

Drink whenever Hodgins explains a conspiracy theory


#19 Drink whenever a stranger assumes Booth and Brennan are a couple

 


#18 Drink whenever Hodgins and Angela do or say something that reminds you of how fundamentally weird they both are

 


#17 Drink whenever Caroline calls someone “cheri”

 


#16 Drink whenever Sweets fails to get Brennan and Booth to do what he suggests

 


#15 Drink whenever Angela calls someone “sweetie”

(Courtesy of Laura Lee Reitano)


#14 Drink whenever Cam tries to hurry the process along by managing

 


#13 Drink whenever Hodgins gets irritated

 


#12 Drink whenever a squintern seems confused by everyone else in the Jeffersonian

 


#11 Drink whenever Hodgins gets excited by something disgusting

 


#10 Drink whenever Brennan cites anthropology to refute something Booth said

 


#9 Drink whenever Booth looks at Brennan instead of at the road while driving

 


#8 Drink whenever they eliminate a person from suspicion

 


#7 Drink whenever you see the “cocky” belt buckle

 


#6 Drink whenever someone swipes a keycard to get onto the forensics platform

(Courtesy of Kaari Firor)


#5 Drink whenever Brennan misses an obvious pop culture reference

 


#4 Drink whenever you see something gratuitously disgusting

 


#3 Drink whenever Brennan says something that would be inappropriate if said by anyone else

 


#2 Drink whenever Booth says “Bones”

(Courtesy of Laura Lee Reitano)


#1 Drink whenever Booth and Brennan share a meaningful look