How to Play Spoons (Card Game)

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Count your players.

   In the middle of the table, place however many spoons is one less than the number of players you have.
   
   For example, if you're playing with 6 people, use 5 spoons.
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   Step 2: Shuffle a standard 52-card deck and deal 4 cards to each person.

   Have the dealer keep the deck next to them. , The person to the right of the dealer, however, should put one of their cards down on the table to start the discard pile, while the dealer picks up a new card. , Each round the dealer should pick up a new card and the person to their right should add to the discard pile, so as to have a continuous influx of new cards. , all 4 aces or all 4 nines) has to pick up a spoon.
   
   Following this, all other players need to do the same, with the slowest person left without a spoon and out of the game. , So if the first round had 6 players and 5 spoons, the second round would consist of 5 players and 4 spoons.
   
   Continue playing until you're left with a single person, who is the winner.
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   Step 3: Have everyone take one of their cards and discard it to their left simultaneously.

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   Step 4: Repeat this process of everyone passing to the left.

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   Step 5: The first person to have 4 of a kind (e.g.

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   Step 6: Remove a spoon every time you remove a player from the game.

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