Spoons

Wednesday nights I'm in charge of the games for our youth group. Tonight we played the card game spoons. So the rules of the game are: put 1 less spoon than players that you have in the middle of the table. So if you have 6 players you need 5 spoons. Everyone gets 4 cards (we use regular playing cards) the remaining deck goes in front of player 1. That player picks up one card at a time trying to get 4 of the same numbers or jacks, queens, etc. He will pass one card that he doesn't want on to the next player. That player does the same thing. Each player should only have 4 cards in their hand at a time. When someone gets their 4 matching cards they grab a spoon. Everyone else then tries to grab a spoon. Whoever does not get a spoon loses that round and gets the first letter in spoon. Player 2 then shuffles, deals, and is the starting person for round 2. Keep moving down the line with each turn. The first person to spell s-p-o-o-n is out. Play continues until only one person is left. The kids have a blast with it and it's pretty fast paced. Next time I'm going to add a twist and put the spoons somewhere that they'll have to get up to get them! I'll try to start adding pictures of our group doing games so you can see how fun they are!