Do you remember the game "spoons"?

Question

I want to teach my kids how to play and I can't remember.

Answer 1

Every player is given four cards at the beginning. The cards in the rest of the deck are passed around until one person gets four of a kind. When you pick up a card you have to drop another, so you can only have 4 cards at a time. Then the person with four of a kind picks up a spoon and everyone else picks up a spoon, but you are supposed to put down one less spoon than there are people playing so one of the players doesn't pick up a spoon and is eliminated. Then you keep doing this until one player is left.

Answer 2

Put one less spoon than the number of players in the center of the table.

Everyone starts with 4 cards.  The dealer pickes up a card from the deck and then passes one card to the next player.

That player then passes a card... and so on.  

When a player has 4 of a kind, they grab a spoon.  AS SOON AS SOMEONE GRABS THE FIRST SPOON it is a free for all for the remaining spoons.  Whoever doesn't get one in time is eliminated.  Players can also be tricky and pretend to grab a spoon, if they trick soemone into grabbing one, that player loses.

I remember a spoons drinking game in college.  There was a chick fight and a broken chair before we decided to stop.

Answer 3

Everyone sits in a circle and gets dealt 4 cards.  There is always 1 less spoon than the number of players in the middle of the circle.  The first person picks up a card and sees if they want it or not, then passes a card to the next player.  You cannot look at more than one card at a time.  Once a player has 4 of a kind, they grab a spoon.  Once a spoon is grabbed, it is a mad rush to grab a spoon.  Then it depends on your rules for what happens to the player without a spoon.  We play it as, if you don't grab a spoon 3 times, you are out.  Once a person is out, then the number resets to 0.  You play until there is only 1 person left.

Love the game.  Though I have come out with bloody hands before.

Answer 4

Same basic rules as above except to make the rounds last longer we spell out a word like "pig" or "spoons" or whatever.  when the whole word is spelled out on a person they are eliminated. see the link.