2014-08-28

【Aiden in English】

        Spoons are a sort of fun card game that kids can enjoy. Although it may get a little rough, it's a game I love. Except at GHCS Summer Camp, we tweaked it up a little bit.

        Around 1 in this afternoon, just after lunch, my friends Kevin, Michelle, and I were playing Spoons when suddenly someone turned on the fan. The fan blew the cards everywhere. Kevin shouted: "Which Nincompoop turned on the fan?!" As I heard the word "Nincompoop" leave his mouth, I began trembling with laughter. Michelle soon began to laugh too. And not a second after we started laughing, the whole class was in doubling over in hysterical laughter. And so, we named the game Spoons Nincompoop. There were a few changes though.

        The objective is to pass the cards around in a circle and collect 4 of the same number. For example, if you have three 3's, you pick up a 3. Then you swapped your 4th card out, so you have four 3's. Once you have 4 of one number, you pick up a spoon. If you see someone pick up a spoon, you pick up a spoon. There is always one less spoon than the amount of players. The last person not to pick up a spoon loses. Here's what's different. If you lose, you get a letter. The letters spell Nincompoop. If you spell Nincompoop, you lose for good and you must wear a sign on your back written with Nincompoop for the day.

        Sometimes, silly little moments happen even if by accident.

【紅霞譯文】

        《勺子》是一個蠻有意思的紙牌遊戲，小朋友們肯定愛玩，儘管不太好打，但我的確挺喜歡的。在賓州光華中文學校夏令營里玩的有點例外，我們把它稍微改動了一下。

        今天下午一點鐘左右，剛剛吃罷午飯，我與朋友凱文和豫立正玩《勺子》遊戲，突然有人打開電扇，將撲克牌吹落一地，凱文喊了起來：“是哪個淘氣包幹的好事﹖﹗”我一聽到“淘氣包”一詞脫口而出，忍不住樂爆肚皮。豫立見狀，立刻被逗得前俯後仰。轉眼間，歡快聲傳遍教室，感染了周圍所有的人，大家紛紛跟着一起發出歇斯底里的狂笑。鑑於這種情形，我們當即把《勺子》改叫《淘氣包》，並作了相應調整。

        大家圍做一圈按《勺子》打法發牌，每人試圖收集四張相同號碼的撲克牌。舉例來說，如果你有三張“3”，那麼仍需得到另外一張“3”。接下來，你設法換回第四張“3”。一旦手上四張牌數字一致，你得一隻勺子。當看到別人拿勺時，你自己也要拿勺，可勺子的額度總是比打牌人數少一個，因此最後得不到勺子的人算輸。在這裡《淘氣包》與《勺子》有所區別，倘若輸了，你就要抽一個字母，所有字母都是“淘氣包”的組字成分。假如收集到的字母恰好為“淘氣包”的話，你徹底被淘汰出局，其背後還要貼上寫有“淘氣包”字樣的標記。

        有時候，惡作劇出奇不意，事先毫無準備。