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DONKEY CARD GAMES FOR THE YOUNG CHILDREN

This is the same game as Pig, except that when a player gets 4 of a kind he puts his hand face down on the table quietly instead of putting his finger to his nose. He still gets a card from his right and just passes that along to the left, leaving his 4 of a kind untouched on the table.

As each player sees what has happened, he likewise puts his hand down quietly. The idea is to keep up the passing and the conversation while some player plays on without realizing that the hand has really ended.

The last player to put his cards down loses the hand. This makes him a D. The next time he loses, he becomes a D-O. The third time, he becomes a D-O-N. This keeps on, until finally some player becomes a D-O-N-K-E-Y.

The D-O-N-K-E-Y loses the game, and the winner is the player who has the smallest number of letters.

DONKEY BUTTONS

• This is the same game as Donkey, except that when a player gets 4 of a kind he shouts "Donkey" and quickly grabs a button from the middle of the table. There is one button less than there are players, so the last player to grab doesn't get a button. He becomes a D, and the game continues in this way until somebody becomes a D-O-N-K-E-Y. At the end of the game, the D-O-N-K-E-Y has to bray "heehaw" 3 times.

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