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For other uses, see Spoons (disambiguation).

Spoons is a children's card-matching and bluffing game also enjoyed by adults, Spoons is a fast-action, knuckle-punishing game requiring the players to pay attention to 2 things at once.

Another version of this game is pig, with the same gameplay but no spoons required.

Contents 1 Play of the game 1.1 Setup 1.2 Play 2 Rules 2.1 Scoring 2.2 Strategy/bluffing

Play of the game

Setup

Place some spoons in the center of the playing area: one spoon fewer than the number of players, with the spoons set up like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. Deal four cards to each player and place the remainder of the deck to the dealers left.

Play

Each player discards a card face down to player on their left. Each player looks at that card and keeps and discards it or another to the person on the left. The dealer takes cards from the remainder of the deck. When these are used s/he takes one card at a time from the face down stack that has been passed to him/her from the person on his right.

This goes on, often at ever-increasing speed, until a player gets 4 of a kind (4 Kings, 4 two's etc.) Immediately after that player has discarded (and has only 4 cards) they are entitled to grab a spoon. Then the fun begins. As soon as one player has grabbed a spoon, all of the others should instantly do the same. Whoever does not get a spoon loses that hand.

Rules

If someone is first to touch a spoon, and it turns out that at that time no one actually has 4 of a kind, then the first toucher loses the hand. Therefore, someone believing that someone else has four of a kind does not give the believer the right to grab a spoon, because one must have four of a kind to be the first to grab a spoon. Falsely obtaining a spoon results in a point for the person who initiated the grabbing of the spoons.

Scoring

Scoring: the loser has a letter in the word "s-p-o-o-n-s" counted against them. That is, the first loss is "s", the second is "p", etc. When a player has accumulated all six letters in "spoons", they drop out of the game. At that time, the number of spoons is reduced by one. The game continues until only the winner is left.

Strategy/bluffing

Bluffing is encouraged, as you can reach for a spoon at any time as long as the spoon is not actually touched. This can have a distracting effect on one's opponents, or even cause someone to improperly grab a spoon prematurely.

One can also play without ever looking at the cards at all. Just pass the discards from right to left, keeping both eyes on the spoons.

Because players are focused on their own hand, when you get four of a kind, surreptitiously nab a spoon. They card-passing may continue for several seconds while you watch the fun.

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