Spoons

Fun Party Games for Adults is sure you will love this game! You will need to be quick and possibly even sneaky. This is a great card game for small intimate parties and groups.

Materials: deck of cards and spoons

# of people: 3-8 players

In spoons, the goal is to get a 4 of a kind and make sure you aren't the last to try and grab a spoon.

Everyone sits in a circle either at a table or on the floor.  You should have enough spoons for all but one player (kind of like musical chairs).  Put the spoons in the middle of the circle.  Shuffle the cards and deal 4 cards to each player.

To start the game the first person to deal will grab a card off the top of the remaining deck.  He will either keep that card and pass one from his hand to the left or pass the card he draws to his left.  Each person in the circle will get a card from the person on their right and decide which card they want to pass to their left.  The person at the end will put the card he doesn't want in a discard pile.  The goal is to get a set of 4 cards of the same number.  If you get a set of 4 you grab a spoon from the center.  Once the first person grabs a spoon everyone races to grab the rest of the spoons.  Because there is one less spoon than there are people, one person will be spoonless.  That person gets an S, starting to spell the word SPOONS.  If that person loses again they get a P and so on until they spell the word SPOONS.  Whoever spells SPOONS first is out.  Play continues until only one person has not lost enough times to spell SPOONS, that person is the winner.

Variations:

Water Spoons: With each round whoever loses has to drink a large glass of water, and no one can go to the bathroom until they are out of the game.  If they give in and go then they are automatically out.

Extreme Spoons:  Instead of putting the spoons in the middle of the circle, put them on the other side of the room or even in another room.  You can even add to the extremeness of it by putting obsticals in the way like pillows, chairs, other furniture, etc.  This way when the first person takes off to get a spoon the group is racing, tackling and wrestling for spoons!  Be careful!

Have fun!
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