How to Play with a Dreidel?

Gather a dreidel, chocolate coins, nuts, candies, or other small tokens

Give each player an equal number of tokens

Put one token into the center pot before the game starts

Take turns spinning the dreidel

Read the letter that lands facing up after each spin

Nun: do nothing

Gimel: take all the tokens from the pot

Hei: take half of the tokens from the pot

Shin: put one token into the pot

If the pot is empty and a player gets Gimel, take nothing

If the pot is empty and a player gets Hei, take nothing

If a player has no tokens left, that player is out

Keep playing until one player has all the tokens or until everyone agrees to stop

Return the tokens and play again if desired

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