pirinola

[gilbert]

"pirinola" is a game we've played at a home game the last few times. It might technically be called something else, but I googled the details of the game and that's what I came up with. Since we play the game at my house, there's always a few people that show up early and instead of playing 3-4 handed, we've just been playing this for fun until everyone else shows up.

You need the game piece:


I bought mine off ecrater.com. It was $4 plus s+h.

The piece has six sides. I had to mark over the piece I bought because it was written in spanish and it's the only kind I could find since it's an old mexican game. The sides are labeled: take one, take two, pay one, pay two, all pay, take all.

We've been playing with quarter chips but you can obviously play with whatever denom you want to play with. You pass it around in a circle and everyone takes the piece and spins it. Whatever it lands on, that's what you do. ie if it lands on take one, you take a chip out of the pot, if it lands on all pay everyone puts one chip in etc until someone hits "take all" and drags the pot.

It's kind of a fun game and can get intense if you play with big chips.

[BobJoeJim]

Sounds like a six sided dreidel.

[Aces McGee]

Cool. Couldn't you play this with a die, though, if you didn't have the game piece?

-McGee

[Colima420]

Pirinola is the true name of that thing. For the people that grew up in Mexico, everyone came across this at one time or another.

The last time I played with one of thoseI was about 8.

But you are right that it would probably be very fun to play at this age with dollar bills or chips worth a high value.

I might try doing this.

Thank you for bringing back the memories.

Colima420