So you're planning on having an awesome July 4th party. Excellent decision. You'll probably stock up with beer, fireworks, compile a monster music playlist and invite over friends and family. You may even have a pool and an outrageously long slip 'n slide annexed to it. Beer games--check. This is all great, but...how will the Independence Day extravaganza turn out? If all goes well, everyone will have a blast on a sunny day with a 30 percent probability of a sick day on Tuesday.
To aid you in determining how you and your guests will fare at the party, we pooled our collective July 4th experience and created this handy flowchart so you'll have a solid idea how the party will conclude.

Illustration by Brendan McGinley
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