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How To Play Strip Dreidel

Alex Robboy , CAS, MSW, ACSW, LCSW — Founder & executive director

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How To Play Strip Dreidel

You know how they say that Dreidel is the all time classic family friendly game to be playing on Hanukkah?   Well today I'd like to actually teach you about Strip Dreidel. It's one of my favorite games to be playing, and let's just say it has a little bit more of a grown up edge to it.  

So the rules are pretty much the same, which is you're spinning the Dreidel  and everybody's putting something into the pot, and depending on what Hebrew letter the dreidel lands on, it's going to define what gets put into the pot as well as what gets taken out of the pot. 

So when the dreidel lands on the nun, it means nothing. So the player does nothing. You don't put any clothes into the pot.

If the dreidel lands on the gimmel, the gimmel means the player takes everything. So the player who spines the gimmel gets to take all the clothing out of the pot. If the dreidel lands on the letter hey, then the player gets to take out half of all the clothing from the pot. If the dreidel lands on the shin, then of course you have to take an article of clothing off of your body and put it into the pot.  

Just to make the dreidel game a little bit more spicy, when you get down to your last two articles of clothing, you do have the right to say that you'd rather take a dare.   And if you take the dare, the other party gets to come up with all kinds of fun sexual acts.   We're really looking at playful outer course ideas.   Maybe the dare is going to be give me a foot massage  or suck my toes, or   maybe it's going to be let me play with your breasts.  Or it's   going to be kiss me for a couple of minutes in any particular manner that I want.  I don't know, make it up. You know what your favorite things are and that's what I'd strongly encourage you to go for.   Have a great time tonight playing dreidel.  

This game was designed to be played by Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists and anyone else who is interested in the spin off from the game that most Jews grew up playing with their families for generations.

Please note, the variations on the adult version of this game are endless. This tip is just meant to get you starting to think about fun ways to enjoy the holidays when no kids are around.


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