Spoons
Pass cards round as fast as you can. Four of a kind? Grab a spoon, and don’t be the one left without. 3–8 players.
Also known as Pig and Tongue.
How to play Spoons
- 1Everyone holds four cards, and there is one spoon fewer than there are players. Nobody takes turns: everyone plays at once, as fast as they like.
- 2The dealer picks up from the stock, keeps the card or swaps it for one in their hand, and passes one card face down to the next player. Everyone else does the same with the cards passed to them, so cards keep flowing round. You may only hold five cards for a moment: pass one on before you pick up again.
- 3The last player before the dealer passes into the discards, which are shuffled into a new stock when the stock runs out.
- 4Collect four cards of the same rank, then grab a spoon. Once one spoon is gone, everyone may grab one, four of a kind or not. You can't take the first spoon without four of a kind.
- 5Whoever is left without a spoon gets a letter of SPOON. Spell the whole word and you're out. The last player still in wins.
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