• 3 spoons
• a deck of 16 Spoon Scramble cards

Four (4)

To avoid getting all the letters in the word SPOONS.

Place the spoons in the center of the table.

1. The dealer shuffles and deals the cards facedown (4 to each player).
2. Players look at their cards.  If a player has 4 cards of equal value, proceed to Step 4 below.  Otherwise, each player chooses a card to discard and passes it, facedown, to the player on the left.
   Example:  A player has the cards 1/4 or 24; 3 1/2 * 2; 50% of 12; and 0.10 * 90.  Since two cards are equal to 6, discard either 3 1/2 * 2 or 0.10 * 90.
3. Each player picks up the new card and chooses a card to pass to the next player.  The passing of the cards should proceed as quickly as possible.
4. As soon as a player has 4 cards of equal value, the player places the cards face up on the table and grabs a spoon.  The other players then try to grab one of the remaining spoons.
5. The player left without a spoon in each round is assigned a letter from the word SPOONS, starting with the first letter.  If a player incorrectly claims to have 4 cards of equal value, that player receives a letter instead of the player left without a spoon.
6. Players put the spoons back in the center of the table.  The dealer shuffles and deals the cards.  A new round begins (Step 2 above).
7. Play continues until 1 player gets all the letters in SPOONS.  The player who has the fewest letters in SPOONS is the winner.  If players have the same number of letters there is a tie.