    spoons, also known as pig or tongue,board games about board games about is a fast-paced game of matching and occasional bluffing, in the crazy eights group of card games, closely related to craits.john mcleod rules of card games it is played with an ordinary pack of playing cards and several ordinary kitchen spoons or other objects. spoons is played in multiple rounds, and each player's objective is to grab a spoon. no spoon may be grabbed until one player has collected a four of a kind, but once the first player to get a four of a kind has grabbed a spoon, all players may immediately reach out to attempt to grab a spoon. as in the game musical chairs, there is always one fewer spoon than there are players, so one player will always be left without a spoon. depending on the variety of game being played, that player either loses the game and is eliminated, or continues playing but loses a point. ==playing the game== ===preliminaries===  the game spoons can be played with 3 or more players, using one or more decks of 52 ordinary playing cards and a number of spoons totalling one fewer than the number of players. even though the game is famous for the usage of spoons, virtually anything can be used. the spoons are placed in the center of the table in a circle with handles pointing outward so that they may be easily grabbed by any of the players. one person is designated first dealer and deals four cards to each player. the dealer will use the remaining cards to draw from. ===play=== once everyone has picked up their cards, the game can begin. each player is trying to make their four cards into a set of four of a kind (four queens, four twos, etc.) by drawing new cards and discarding ones the player deems useless to the current task. the dealer draws the top card from the pile, and either discards it or exchanges it with a card in his hand, in which case he discards that card. cards are typically discarded to the left. the next player picks up the dealer's discarded card, discards a card to the left, and play continues with the next player. the last player discards his card into a "discard pile&q
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