How To Play Dreidel

Each player antes up one token to begin.

The players take turns spinning the dreidel, which has four sides, each marked with a Hebrew letter.

If the dreidel lands on “nun,” which stands for the Yiddish word nisht, or “nothing,” do nothing.

If the dreidel lands on “gimmel,” which stands for the Yiddish word gantz, or “everything,” you’ve hit the jackpot. Take all the tokens.

If the dreidel lands on “hey,” which stands for the Yiddish word halb, or “half,” you win half the pot.

If the dreidel lands on “shin,” which stands for the Yiddish word shtel, or “put in,” you have to put one of your tokens into the pot.

Whenever the pot is emptied—or gets down to one token—everyone adds a token.

After every player has had a spin, everyone puts in another token and begin another round of spinning.

A player is out when he or she runs out of tokens.