There was this game I learned in Middle School

 

The game involves your hands, and your fingers, and math, and strategy.

 

The object of the game is to max out both of the opponents hands by giving them a total amount of five fingers or more, and you do that by adding your amount of fingers you have in play, to theirs.

You are allowed to swap the amount of fingers over, but that uses up your turn. If a hand has zero fingers up that hand must have been maxed out and cannot play. You can swap as many fingers as you want, as long as the result does not leave you with five or more fingers in any hand.

You can swap the amount to bring a hand back into play.

You cannot add your amount to an opponent’s hand that is not in play.

You cannot swap zero fingers.

This is best explained with a demonstration.

 

You both start off with both hands, palms inward towards your body and out in front of you, your index fingers pointing out to the opponent.

 

Right now the score of the game is you: right hand 1, left hand 1; opponent: right hand 1, left hand 1.

 

Let’s say you go first, (deciding who goes first can be by any means) you choose to add your right hand’s amount of fingers to the opponent’s left hand’s amount. You still keep your amount, and they get the addition, and they put up two fingers now.

Now the score of the game is you: right hand 1, left hand 1; opponent: right hand 1, left hand 2.

 

You only add or switch per turn, never both.

 

The opponent chooses to add their left hand amount to your right hand amount. You put up three fingers now

 

Now the score of the game is you: right hand 3, left hand 1; opponent: right hand 1, left hand 2.

 

Now your turn, you choose to add your right hand to the opponent’s left hand, this would make the opponent have 5 fingers total in one hand, so that hand is maxed out, and is out of the game. (They put that hand down)

 

Now the score of the game is you: right hand 3, left hand 1; opponent: right hand 1 (and the left hand is out.)

 

For the opponent’s turn, they can either add their right hand to one of your hands, or swap to the hand out of play, using up his turn (good for strategies). They choose to add their right hand to your right hand.

 

Now the score of the game is you: right hand 4, left hand 1, opponent: right hand 1

 

You add your right hand to their right hand and win the game because the opponent has maxed out their right hand.

 

This game was fun when we were ever bored, or waiting for something that was taking too long.

This game sucks if the people playing just keep swapping and no addition gets made.

 

-James

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