Pointing Fingers Game
This is a really fun and addicting game. You can
play anywhere and with all ages. Try this one, for
sure!
The fingers game is quite simple,
and can be played anywhere with another
person.
1. The two players start by
holding up two fingers each, one on each
hand.
2. On a player's turn, that player
can point with one hand to any of the three hands around him (his own or the
other players'). The hand that gets pointed to adds the number of fingers on the
hand that did the pointing to his own, and sticks that many fingers up. For
instance, if my right hand has two fingers up and I point it to your left hand,
which has one finger up, you would now show three fingers on your left
hand.
3. If five fingers or more should
be up, make a fist. A fist cannot be used to point
with.
4. If you have one fist and your
other hand has an even number of fingers, you can point with the second hand to
the fist on your turn, and divide the fingers evenly between the hands. This is
the only time a fist may be pointed to.
Players alternate turns, and the first player to show two fists
loses.
Another version doesn't allow you
to point to your own hand, only to the other person's hands, except when
splitting fingers with a closed
fist.
Some people play a different
version of Rule 4 - you don't have to have an even number to split with a fist -
if you had a fist and 3 fingers on the other hand, you could use a turn by
splitting the 3 as 2 and 1.
Also - in a
fast-moving game of Pointing Fingers, a "split" is done by kind of knocking the
two hands together and coming away with the fingers split between the two hands,
rather than just pointing.
Posted: Thu - August 12, 2004 at 07:30 PM