Spoons

Has anybody played spoons? It is a wonderful fast paced game filled with excitement and danger.

So here’s how it works… You set however many people you want to play around a sturdy table and put that many spoons in the middle minus one. Then you deal out four cards to everyone. The object of the game is to get a four of a kind. Whoever gets there four of a kind first grabs a spoon and then so does everyone else but one. That one gets a letter. When they loose enough to spell out the word spoon they are out of the game. So to start the game… Once the dealer has passed out the cards they start going though the pile one at a time and passing the cards to the person at there left and then they pass to the left and so on. So as the cards go around you look for ones that match and trade them out, always keeping four cards in your hand.

So where is the danger and excitement you might ask. Well when you have a competitive family and people who try to steal other people’s spoons right out of their hands things get pretty lively.

This last weekend Chris and I went to his brother’s house in Pueblo and on Sunday night his two sisters and one brother in law came over and we all played spoons. I ended up breaking the tops of one of the chairs and Chris broke the table in all of the excitement. There was biting, wrestling, nails lost, blood drawn, children pulled across the table, and grown men belly flopping on it, there was screaming, and yelling, and lots and lots of laughter. I am so happy that large portions were recorded for later viewing pleasure.

I don’t have any video but here are some pictures.