SPOONS is a card game where players have a maximum of four cards in their hand. There is a dealer that has the pack of cards to his/her right. Everyone passes one, two or three cards to the left, face down on the table, and the person to the left will picks up the card from their right. If they want the card they will swap it with another card that they don’t want. And players discard any card they choose.
Once players get four matches they have to snatch a spoon that is on the table in order to win. Once someone has grabbed a spoon everyone else has to grab a spoon before there are none left! There is one spoon less than there are people. So if there are twelve people there will be eleven spoons.If you are the person without a spoon once everyone else has already grabbed one you become an S. The way you lose and get out is when you fully spell the word SPOONS. Then you are out!
One night a family from our local church, Lirio de los valles, came to our house for dinner. Ivania and Juan Pablo are the youth group leaders. Their kids are Juan Pablo, he is 15 years old, David, he’s 14, Marcelo, he’s 12, and Nicole and she’s 8.
I made spicy chicken and rice with vegetables for dinner. Everyone enjoyed it! We were all sitting in the dining room at the round, wooden table. After dinner mum brought out the cards and declared in her broken Spanish “Jugemos SPOONS!” (let’s play spoons).
After almost an hour of mum explaining the game the best as she could, I finished it off by explaining the whole game in thirty seconds! Mum finally got around to asking “Quien jugar?” (Who will play?). She received the two eldest boys from their family: Juan Pablo and David, she also got Lorenzy, Sezni, and me, Fran.
We played a few practice rounds to get started and by the 14th practice round Dad came running around the corner (from the bathroom) and into the dining room saying “I’m playing, make way!” He obviously forgot that the boys couldn’t speak English!
It’s never a good idea to put my Mum and Dad next to each other during a game, especially a game like Spoons! One time we played in Mexico with a bunch of single teachers. Mum got dragged halfway across the room and not to mention across the table as well! And guess who was dragging her… DAD!
Well a similar action was made on this occasion, but they were sitting next to each other! Let me explain… Mum and Dad don’t like to lose, they both want to win and in Spoons that is possible, but not when they are fighting for the same spoon! And only one can win when you are fighting to the death for the last spoon!
It soon turned into the Brien game. Since all the other boys (Juan Pablo, David and Sezni) lost. The only people left playing were my Mum, my dad, my sister and me.
Lorenzy and I stopped as soon as Mum lost a huge chunk of hair from her head! My parents almost kill each other just to get their hands on a spoon! It’s funny watching my parents play Spoons although it’s not funny being in between them when they play! Well in the end Dad won because mum just quit and said “there’s other games of Spoons to play”
hahahaha, I remember that day your mum got dragged across the room. In fact, I think I have a photo where you can only see your mum's feet kicking in the air and your dad desperately trying to get the spoon out of her hands!
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