Substances · Question 83 of 100

What “Blacked out from drinking?” means

Item 83 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Blacked out from drinking?”. Here is what the wording covers, where readers reasonably disagree about it, and exactly how much it moves your score.

Guidance written and reviewed 2026-07-26

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What the question is asking

Item 83 asks whether you have blacked out from drinking — lost memory of a period of time while still conscious and active. It is the most serious of the physical consequence items and describes something medically distinct from simply being very drunk.

Where people disagree about what counts

Blacking out and passing out are commonly confused. A blackout is memory loss while awake; passing out is losing consciousness. The item says blacked out, which points at memory loss, though many takers use the words interchangeably.

The test is self-scored and nobody else ever sees your answer, so the only thing that matters is applying one reading consistently across the whole checklist.

How item 83 fits with the items around it

Item 83 is the top of the physical consequence run and leads directly into item 84, which covers what someone did during or after such an episode. Together they close the alcohol block that began at item 76.

Item 82, before this one Thrown up from drinking? Item 84, after this one Done something you regretted while drunk?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 83 subtracts one point from the starting score of 100. Leaving it unchecked subtracts nothing, and no item on the checklist is weighted more heavily than any other.

Final score = 100 − total checked boxes

The final number never identifies this answer or any other individual answer — it is a count, so it discards which items were selected the moment it is calculated. Read the full scoring guide or look up an exact result on the 0–100 score chart.

Questions about item 83

Is blacking out the same as passing out?

Medically no. A blackout is memory loss while still awake and active; passing out is losing consciousness. The item says blacked out.

Does partial memory loss count?

Most takers count it. A patchy or fragmentary memory of a night is the more common form of a blackout.

Is item 83 the last alcohol item?

Nearly. Item 84, on regretting something done while drunk, closes the block at 76 to 84.

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