Dreidel: Wild Salsa Style
We ended up requiring a bottle of salsa, plastic coins, a dreidel, and a pile of weird dice, including a four-sided di, an alphabet di, a rock paper scissors di and a smiley face di. Oh, and we had a rubber duckie guarding the pot.
If you don't want to go shopping, you could make cards with these options, instead of dice. Or, in this techy world, a computer program.
On your turn, roll or spin the item of your choice, and win or lose coins based on the outcome. (Many people play with candy, etc. This works, but coins are fun since you can add coin flipping to the craziness. Of course, candy you can eat.)
Dreidel: We all know the rules by now: Nun, Gimmel, Hey, Shin.
Four sided di: We weren’t sure how to make these correspond. Guess that’s a task for next time.
Smiley face di: rather obvious: Big smile= take the pot. Small smile= take half. Neutral= do nothing. Sad face= Put one in. Angry face= put two in.
RPS di: Rock= you rock! Take the pile. Pay-per= with a name like that, you've gotta pay! Scissors= bisect that pile and take half.
With the more complex alphabet di, we picked the first (reasonable) idea to come to mind. These included as follows:
A token
Borrow (from a friend who has a lot)
Donate
Empty the pot
Free Token
Get, gain, and gimmie
Half
Kiss a token goodbye
Lose
Nada, nil, nix, naught, nothin’
Owe
Put or pay
Quick, look over there! (snatch from a friend who has a lot)
Reverse direction
Skip a turn
Take
Uninteresting
Win
X marks the spot
Y are there so few to take?
Wild: Our di had a few “wild spaces.” On those, we yelled frantically, did a little dance, and confiscated the salsa. Please don’t ask why.
As you can see, we didn’t roll quite every letter, so there were a few gaps.
Variations could (and began to) include
coin flipping, rules on when you must switch dice/dreidels, etc. We weren’t
quite sure what to do with heads and tails, but rolling the same thing twice
meant changing dice. Also the person after the salsa-getter had to switch
dice. At the end, the winners were the ones with the biggest pot AND the one
holding the salsa. Too bad we never found a use for the chips.
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