both easy to learn and can be played with many people?
PIG,(yes this is the name of the game) is a very hilarious game
for children or for adults to play with children. Anybody can
learn the game in two or three minutes, and one extra minute
makes you an expert!
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 3 to 13. Five or 6 make the best game. CARDS:
Four of a kind for each player in the game. For example, 5
players would use 20 cards: 4 Aces, 4 Kings, 4 Queens, 4 Jacks,
and 4 10's. For 6 players you would add the four 9's. THE DEAL:
Any player shuffles and deals 4 cards to each player.
OBJECT: TO get 4 of a kind in your own hand, or to be quick to
notice it when somebody else gets 4 of a kind.
THE PLAY: Each player looks at his hand to see if he was dealt 4
of a kind. If nobody has 4 of a kind, each player puts some
unwanted card face down on the table and passes it to the player
at his left, receiving a card at the same time from the player
at his right.
Each player looks at his hand as it appears with the
newly-received card. If, still, nobody has 4 of a kind, each
player once again passes a card to the left and gets a new card
from the right. The play is continued in this way until some
player has 4 of a kind in his hand. That player stops passing or
receiving cards since he is satisfied with his hand as it is.
Instead of playing on, he puts his finger to his nose.
The other players must be quick to notice this, and each of them
must stop passing in order to put a finger to his nose. The last
player to put a finger to his nose is the Pig. SKILLFUL PLAY: In
trying to put together 4 of a kind, you must usually start with
a pair. For example, suppose you are dealt 2 Kings, 1 Queen, and
1 Ace. Keep the two Kings, and pass either the Queen or the Ace.
As soon as you get another King, save all 3 of them, and pass
your fourth card. Sooner or later your fourth King will come in.
Don't get so interested in looking for your own 4 of a kind that
you are blind to what the other players are doing. Keep one eye
on everybody else, particularly on those who look very eagerly
at the cards they are receiving. The eager player probably has 3
of a kind and is just waiting for the fourth.
The best Pig player I know is a little girl who doesn't try very
hard to make 4 of a kind. She always tries to look excited, and
talks and squeals as she gets each card, just as though she had
3 of a kind. While doing all of this, she watches the other
players to see which of them are interested in her and which are
interested in their own hands.
She knows that the players who are interested in her have bad
hands, but that those who are thinking about the game have good
hands. So little Lisa knows which players to watch, and she is
never caught!
Karen Butterworth is a successful freelance author that writes
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focuses primarily on helping you choose the fun and interactive
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