Ah, the Christmas! The most magical time of the year, characterized by sweets deadly for our weight, crazy shopping and pure stress causes impromptu runs and dinners. But there is also some beauty in all of this: traditional Christmas games with relatives. Between December 20 and January 6, in fact, various tragedies, quarrels and various indebtedness are consummated in every Italian home. Here is a list of the most popular games during the holidays for you!
Bingo: who did both?
Let's start immediately with a classic, namely the tombola. This is the game that symbolizes Christmas par excellence, and among many things it drags behind - every time - the funny guy who exclaims both! at each extraction. But how does it work? To play it you need three things: a set of balls / discs numbered from 1 to 90, folders and many, really many peanut husks o dried beans.
After a very undemocratic selection, the tombolier, the one who will have to extract the various numbers and announce them screaming not even at the market. The most skilled tomboliers accompany everything also with jokes and squalid jokes, inspired by Neapolitan grimace (if you don't know what we're talking about, look up Wikipedia. We can't always explain everything to you).
The other players will have to hope that the numbers drawn match those marked on their cards. There are several awards: both, three, four, five e tombola. But do not rejoice: the winner will always be there same person, every year, at every opportunity. The only thing you can do is dump the dried beans that you had set aside on him. According to a recent law decree, killing for this reason is no longer a crime: you will get away with a small fine.
Merchant at the fair: come gentlemen, come!
If you don't have time or desire for a bingo, another Christmas game par excellence is the Merchant at the fair. Here you can let off steam auctioneer you once were, or satisfy your desire for gambling.
The rules are simple and the only things you need are two identical 40-card decks and someone good at selling them, like George Mastrota. From a deck 3 or 6 cards are drawn face down, which will be the prizes. The cards from the other block will instead be auctioned. The merchant, with his speaking skills and the skills acquired during online scams, will have to entice players to shell out as much hard cash for one or more cards at a time. After the sale, whoever has the cards corresponding to those selected from the other deck wins. Easy, right?
Seven and a half: today we get high
Always with cards, but this time Neapolitan, it is possible to immerse yourself in the Christmas atmosphere. The Half past seven it is in fact another valid solution for arguing with relatives and friends.
It starts with the election, as always in a questionable way, of the dealer which deals a card to each player. The goal is simple: make sure that the sum of the cards is equal to or as close as possible to 7 and a half, without exceeding it. To do this, each participant will duel with the dealer who, upon request, will give one or more cards to reach the fateful magic number. If during this phase we should unfortunately exceed 7 and a half, someone will scream at us stoned!, with the relative victory of the dealer. Otherwise, the one who is closest to 7 and a half will win. This game is one of the short and expensive ones. In fact, in a few minutes we will play with what remains of the thirteenth.
The killer: I did it!
If cards and social interactions disgust us, this is for us. The ingredients are simple: a deck of cards, a table and many players. A card is distributed to each participant, who must keep it even if it were the password of Facebook. He who has the King of Coins will be the commissioner, while for those who have received theace of spades it will play the delicate role of killing random people. Like? With the most dangerous weapon ever conceived by mankind: the wink. The killer will indeed have to literally to wink to each player, killing him instantly. To the commissioner the thankless task of identifying the multiple murderer e throw him in jail to eat panettone for 2 euros. The atmosphere that reigns from the start is worthy of a film noir, with silence to reign supreme. Ideal if we want to take a nap.
Other games to end relationships and friendships
These are just some of the many Christmas games that we will have to participate in shortly thereafter. There are tens, hundreds and perhaps thousands of other solutions to make us hate Christmas: from Maxi lyricist al Sinco, passing through theAce running away up to the classic Poker. And every year, unfortunately, new titles are added to the already large list. We therefore have to wait for the end of the holidays, holding our purse tightly and hope that, at least this year, the Lady Luck do us the grace.
