How to Play Spoons
Number of Players: 4 to 12
What You Need: A deck of cards and spoons (one less than the number of players).
Setup:
Shuffle a deck of cards and deal 4 cards to each player.
Place the spoons in the center of the table (one less than the number of players).
Game Play:
Players take turns passing cards clockwise in order to achieve four cards of the same kind. The game will proceed as follows:
On their turn, a player must:
Draw a card from the deck.
Discard an unwanted card to the player on their left.
The aim is to collect four cards of the same number. When a player achieves this, they may pick up a spoon.
Once a player picks up a spoon, all other players must race to grab the remaining spoons from the center.
The player who fails to grab a spoon is out of the game.
Ending the Game:
The game continues, with cards shuffled and dealt again, until only one player remains with one spoon.
Note: Each round, the player who starts the game changes.
History of the Game
This is a game we’d play together as a family on Sundays after church that always was incredibly fun for me. The ten of us would get together around the table and wait for the matching 4 cards that would allow us to pick up a spoon. Usually, the first person would be super stealthy in picking up the spoon, leaving the rest of the players unaware for a time, and it was fun to watch realization sink in and the race from there.