Spoons- to the extreme!

SPOONS (the card game)

Now if you've been to school the last couple of days where there is absolutely nothing to do, usually you watch a movie or play some type of game- in our case card games. There's different types of games to play: poker, spoons, bullcrap, crazy eights, war, etc. The game we have played for the last couple of days is spoons. If you havent played, get a group of your friends and play then. All you need is spoons (plastic suggested, it can get wild) and a deck of cards. The object? To not be the person without a spoon. How to play? four cards are delt to each player, and the spoons are placed in the middle so everyone can reach them. Count how many players you have, then count out that many spoons and take out one spoon so there are less spoons than there are people. Let the game begin! The dealer has the deck of cards in front of him/her. They start the game by picking up the top card, seeing if they need it or not and if they dont then pass it to the person next to you. If you do need it, then exchange it for one you dont need. Before anyone can start getting spoons, one person has to have four of the same number/face (for example {my favorite} have all four aces). Once one person grabs a spoon, the spoons are free game and anyone can grab one spoon. That's usually when it gets a little violent if you have friends like mine who will not be the one without a spoon. Usually when we play, spoons become broken and they are still used which causes blood. Also, you have the people who love to leap across the table to get the spoon on the other end from where they are sitting...cough cough Matt... Once you become good at this game, the faster it goes and the sneakier you can be with it. Most times (especially when having a new player) you can silently grab a spoon while people think you are just reaching for a card. Sometimes you can do that and keep on playing without saying a word and about ten minutes later people start to count the spoons and realize there's less there than what should be there.

Now, extreme spoons is very similar- though I have not had the chance yet to play I probably will sometime this summer when we can be somewhere where there's nothing breakable around. Otto was telling us about it at lunch while we were playing a round of spoons with about nine other people... it wasnt violent at all - kinda sad- but mostly because they were new to the game. It's played the same way except for one tiny thing. The group who's playing is sitting on one side of the room while the spoons are all the way at the other end. Once someone got their four cards, they would run over to grab a spoon. When they get up, everyone else realizes they have their four and go after the spoons. Hince the name , extreme spoons. If anyone tries it or has played it before, let me know how it goes! I'm curious now on how well it goes!