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rivka
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You want to play dreidel too, but you don't have one? No worries!

Here's a pattern and instructions to make your own.

Or you could play dreidel online.


Quick overview of the rules:
  • "Nun" stands for "nisht" which means "nothing." The player wins nothing.
  • "Gimmel" stands for "gantz" which means "all." The player wins the entire pot.
  • "Hey" stands for "halb" which means "half." The player wins half the pot. If there is an odd number of tokens, the player takes the extra token.
  • "Shin" stands for "shtel" which means "put in." The player must put two of his own tokens in the pot.
Everyone ready? Let's divvy up the chocolate (or nuts, or candy, or pennies -- but I prefer to play for chocolate [Big Grin] ). Now each person puts two in the middle.
Now spin!

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I win half! [Smile] <rakes half the kisses into her pile and gloats over them>
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Or wait, can they be Godiva chocolates? [Smile]

Or Hershey's miniature Special Darks?

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rivka
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*drools*




I'm sorry, did you ask something?

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Oh, Awesome! My kid's been begging me to make a dreidel with him (we're not Jewish, but he learned a lot about Hanukkah this year in school) and I've been too lazy to look up the letters and what they mean. *grin*

"I had a little dreidel...I made it out of clay..."

So cool, thanks rivka!

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helb! Half for me, too!
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rivka
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[Smile] [Smile]

I should perhaps explain that the Yiddish "meanings" of the letters for the game is secondary. The letters are actually an acrostic -- Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, a great miracle happened there. (In Israel, dreidels have a pay (for Poh, here) instead of a shin.

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