Blue asked about the candy game. So I'll explain a little more. This game was the highlight of Thanksgiving when I was a kid. My Grandpa hosted it every year. Basically, there is a board with numbers between 2 and 12 on it. But there is no number 7. Some of the other numbers appear twice. There are prizes on every square. Mostly they are $1 store prizes with some candy thrown in. Stuff like pencils, beads, glow sticks, handcuffs, tape, coloring books, stickers, etc. But for the end, Grandpa usually had a grand prize he would put out on numbers 2 or 12 (because those are typically the hardest to roll). To play, you roll a pair of dice. Whatever number it lands is the number of the prize you get. If you roll a 7, then you are out of luck. This is so sad for the little kids. They don't get it. And if it keeps getting rolled, there are sometimes tears. But usually it's still fun for everyone. Then you roll until all the prizes are gone. As a kid, the grand prize was a giant Rambo knife for a couple years. And, inevitably, a little girl would win. Then the trading would begin. And the boys would just about trade everything they had for that awesome knife. The candy game was always a fun distraction between dinner and pie. Try it for your next family get together. I think that sometimes some members of my family play it at Christmas with their families. It's definitely lots of fun with lots of people.
We missed playing the candy game this year. Not much fun with just two adults. I hope you all had fun. I can remember all the fun that we had. Good Memories.
ReplyDeleteWe added a new twist this year. We kept track of the number of 7's everyone rolled and the person who rolled 7 the most times got the grand prize ... in our case it was a slinky.
ReplyDeleteWe played it one year on New Year's Eve and had snappers and candy. Then at midnight we snapped them all.
ReplyDeleteWe put vinyl numbers on plastic plates. Much easier to store, and we just removed the plates as the prizes ran out.