Slip the Bean (indoor game)

Players: 5 or more
Materials: 10 dried beans for each player

Play this game in a room where nobody can escape. Give each player 10 beans, one of which will always stay hidden in the palm of the hand. Tell the players that they all have to get acquainted by shaking hands, and when a player shakes hands with the tenth person, he slips that player his bean. And he continues to shake hands to get rid of the other nine beans. The point of the game is to get rid of all your beans before anyone else does.

This handshaking can get pretty hilarious, with everyone slipping the bean to everyone else while, at the same time, having beans slipped to them. You have to be sneaky by not letting the tenth player know that you’re about to slip him the bean; otherwise, he’ll avoid you. Of course, no player can refuse a bean either.

The first player to get rid of all his beans declares himself the winner.

Collected from The Little Giant Book of Kids’ Games by Glen Vecchione

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