Spoons

Spoons was a favorite card game while I was in high school that we played during down time. We played the game with pencils because you do not typical carry spoons to class with you. The game play is fairly basic starting with everyone being dealt four cards. There are spoons in the center enough for everyone minus one. The dealer starts to draw form the draw pile and can either keep the card or pass it. They pass it to the person on their left and that person has the option to keep it or pass but if the person keeps the card they must also discard one as well and pass it.

 If someone gets four of a kind then they can grab a spoon and if you see someone else grab a spoon then you can do so. This results in a scramble between the last ones to notice a spoon is gone not wanting to be out the next round. Game play continues like this till the game is down to two people and you have a winner. With spoons the violence is fairly minimal but when you get competitive people in the game it can become extremely fast paced and risky for your fingers.