Q&A for How to Play Spoons (Card Game)

Yes. The dealer is the first person to draw a card from the deck and start the game.

You can reshuffle the discard pile and keep playing, or you can restart the round.

Yes. If one player doesn't pass their cards at the same pace, it can disrupt the flow of the game.

It's up to you! You can act like you're still playing the game to throw everyone off, or you can sit back and watch the chaos unfold.

To begin the game, you deal four cards to each person. The remaining deck of cards stays next to the dealer.

To play Spoons properly, you’ll need at least 3 players, and an ideal amount is somewhere between 5 to 7 players. You could try with 2 people but it won’t be as much fun as when you have more players. You would have to use one spoon and the winner of that round is the winner of the game.

In the game of Spoons, it's a case of just grabbing the spoon, either subtly or obviously, depending on what your strategy is. For help with holding or gripping your spoon properly for eating, check out the wikiHow How to Hold a Spoon .

You can play the game the same way, you just add in "drinking rules" to the game. For example, the loser might have to finish their whole drink or drink for 4 seconds when the 4-of-a-kind is won. You can also have "penalty drinks," which players have to drink when they have more than 4 cards in hand during the game or if they’re too intent on watching the spoons. Be creative and make up your own drinking rules for the game too!

Yes, that's what makes it so fun! Not only do you have to watch your cards, but other people's cards too, so that if someone else grabs a spoon, you will be the first to know. One a spoon, is grabbed, it is a frenzy of activity, and is very fast.

You definitely want to try and stay sneaky.

No, because it has already passed you. The discarded cards are reused after the deck runs out.

No. Try to keep only one deck, because the cards will get all mixed in, and it'll be harder to organize the decks later one.You can easily play Spoons with 3 to 13 people using just one deck.

Yes. Just use two spoons and the game will last two rounds before the game is over. Three people is better than two but not as good as five or six.

No, you cannot.

You can if you want to, but once one person picks up a spoon, you want to grab another spoon as soon as possible.

No, but bring it up with the players before the game starts. You can turn it into a house rule.

You have to keep playing until one of you gets four of a kind. Then, whoever takes away the spoon first is the winner.

No. It is too dangerous. Somebody may get hurt.

Yes. You would need another deck, because 13*4=52, so after that someone wouldn't have enough cards. With a double deck the game would also go a lot quicker because there are 8 of each card. Consider changing the rules so each person needs 8 of one type to win and keeps 8 cards in their hand. But again, this makes the game much more complicated. Up to you. You may want to just go with two separate games.

You can, but if you're the starter, then it probably wouldn't be a good idea to pick up a giant handful to go through.

Whoever grabs the spoon first. If the opponent sees the person going for the spoon, then they are allowed to try and get it first, even if they do not have four of a kind. However, this only goes if they see the other person going for the spoon. Any other time, this would be cheating.

Yes. You pick up a spoon as fast as you can so that you aren't out for the round.

You have to establish rules like this ahead of time. Technically, you are breaking the rules and cheating because you have an extra card, but you have won. So it's up to how you want to play the game.

If you're the first to get 4 of a kind, you pick up a spoon. If someone else picks up a spoon, you pick one up as well.

Yes, but if the other person touches it before you can, then it's their card.

No, you may not! You can only have four cards in your hands at any time. You'll have to discard one if you're picking up a new one to keep the number of cards total at four.

That's up to you, and however you and your friends want to play. That's really just being dishonest, and not very cool.

No, that's fine as long as you weren't deliberately hiding it. It's the fault of the other people for not paying more attention.

Yes! You can play spoons with whatever you have on hand: pens, forks, spoons, anything that can be grabbed from the middle without being dangerous!

Put the spoon back, pass the extra card along, then start the round again.