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Re: Dreydlekh Question

 maxwellst (at) aol(dot)com (Maxwell St) wrote: 
"Nun (from Hebrew "Nes") = You get nothing
Gimmel ("Gadol") = you have to give me everything
Hey ("Haya") = I get half 
Shin ("Sham") = You don't get anything"

Not quite the way I learned the game.  Shin means you ante in a token or
coin.  Your way, the pot never gets refilled.

(I can't say what the Yiddish word is that starts with Shin, meaning to
put in, because of the new law about naughty language on the Internet.)


Marvin Margoshes

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