The Shallows Drinking Game Rules

The Shallows drinking game turns Blake Lively's shark thriller into a tense movie night. You follow Nancy as she fights pain, tide, and a great white shark while shore stays only 200 yards away. The film moves fast and stacks one close call after another, so the drinks come at a steady pace.
These rules pull from the movie's best beats, including Steven Seagull, the whale carcass, the GoPro, and the buoy finale. You get a mix of small sips and bigger drinks that match Nancy's fight to survive. It works well for horror fans who want clear, movie-specific rules and a short watch with a lot of tension.
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The Shallows Drinking Game Rules:
- Take a sip when Nancy talks about her mother, Chloe, her father, or leaving medical school
- Take a sip when Steven Seagull appears, gets fed, or gets a line from Nancy
- Take a sip when Nancy patches up her injured leg with rough first aid
- Take a sip when a phone, video chat, or GoPro becomes part of the story
- Drink when the shark's fin breaks the surface or it starts circling Nancy's safe spot
- Drink when the whale carcass appears or becomes a new problem
- Drink when Nancy tries to get help by waving, yelling, or firing a flare
- Drink when someone goes into the water without knowing the shark is there
- Drink when Nancy turns a piece of gear into a survival tool, like the leash, surfboard, flare gun, or buoy chain
- Drink when coral or jellyfish make the escape even worse
- Finish your drink when the first shark attack throws Nancy off her board and bites her leg
- Finish your drink when the drunk beach thief steals from Nancy, heads out for the surfboard, and gets killed
- Finish your drink when Nancy fires a flare into the shark and the whale oil catches fire
- Finish your drink when the buoy trap works and the shark is impaled on the rebar
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About the Movie
- Title
- The Shallows
- Released
- 24 Jun 2016
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Genre
- Drama
- Plot
- In the taut thriller The Shallows, when Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
- Language
- English, Spanish








