Spoons

Sleepyhead, Hau Ruck, butchers, fire or ox, lie is a card game in which it depends on rapid response.

In the English -speaking world the game under the name Pig, Donkey and Spoons is known. After Morehead, Frey and Mott -Smith, these are a modern adaptation of an older game for four people with names Vive l' amour, in which you had to try to collect all thirteen cards of one color.

The related English Game My Ship Sails is returned by David Parlett on a gamble from the 17th century called My Sow Pigg'd - the roots of this game are likely to be several hundred years old.

Sleepyhead is mainly played by children as a party game or cottage but also by adults.

• 2.1 Spoons
• 2.2 Pig
• 2.3 My Ship Sails
• 2.4 Vive l'amour

The rules

Depending on the number of players takes you a packet of playing cards as many quartets ( four sets), with five players that is played with twenty cards so with five quartets.

The cards are now shuffled and dealt to the players.

Furthermore puts you small items, such as lady - stones, in the middle of the table - and always take a less than players.

The players take their cards to try to form a complete quartet. On the command "Go ," each player places a card that he does not need, face down on the table, pushes this card with " jerk " to his left neighbor takes him further and added deferred from its right neighbor card.

Once a player has a complete quartet, he puts this on the table and takes a stone from the middle of the table. The other players try to grab each now also a stone - regardless of whether they possess a quartet or not.

Who gets no stone is sleepyhead and eliminated. The next round will be held between the remaining players, of course, a quartet from the deck and a stone is removed from the middle of the table.

The player who is left last is the winner.

Variants

Rather than play out a single winner, predominates in some variants, the punishment of the loser, the nightcap.

Related Games

Spoons

In the English-speaking world the game under the name Spoons (English spoon ) is known, this spoon will take tokens used.

Pig

In Pig (English pig) No objects are placed in the center, but each player must place an object to catch, put a finger to his nose. The one who is least responsive, Pig.

My Ship Sails

The shape of the simultaneous exchanging of playing cards can also be found at My Ship Sails, which is played with a pack of 52 cards. Each player is dealt seven cards, then cards are exchanged in accordance with the manner described above.

Who has the first seven cards of one suit calls "My ship sails! " And wins.

In this variety there is in contrast to the aforementioned variants in every single match a single winner, but not the sole loser.

Vive l' amour

Vive l' amour is the same as My Ship Sails in principle. You play four of us, each player is dealt thirteen cards and tries to get a full color.