So, how do you play "Devil's Triangle," exactly?
America's booze-hounds and teetotalers alike must have been united in their curiosity and bafflement, because Google Trends shows interest in the term spiked between 5:17 and 5:20 pm, when it came up in a tense exchange between U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
Kavanaugh, who referenced the term in his high school yearbook, told Whitehouse that the "Devil's Triangle" was a "drinking game" played with "three glasses, in a triangle."
Here's the problem, though: Damned if we can find any reference to "Devil's Triangle" online as a drinking game. (We only found references to a sexual act.)
There is reference made online to "beer pong triangle rules" but that's not how Kavanaugh described to to Whitehouse, telling the senator "It's a 'Quarters' game."
In Quarters, players bounce 25-cent pieces off of a table into cups of beer.
It's possible, of course, that Kavanaugh and his friends created their variant of the game and christened it accordingly.
But it's also worth noting that the Twitter account Congressional Edits, a Twitter bot that monitors edits to Wikipedia made from Congressional I.P. addresses, discovered that the Wikipedia term "Devil's Triangle (disambiguation)" was edited anonymously from the US House of Representatives shortly to describe it in the same terms as Kavanaugh.