iDreidle for Chanukah

  • $0.99
  • Category:  Games
  • Released: 16 December 2008
  • Version: 1.0
  • Size: 0.1 MB
  • Language: English
  • Rated 4+

    Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 2.1 or later.

 

Description

Unlike other applications this dreidel actually spins around!

The dreidel is usually played in chanukah. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (Nun), ג (Gimel), ה (Hei), ש (Shin), acronym for "נס גדול היה שם" (Nes Gadol Haya Sham – "a great miracle happened there"). During chanukah jewish people play with the dreidel. The Yiddish word "dreydl" comes from the word "dreyen" ("to turn"). The code (based on a Yiddish version of the game) is as follows:
Nun - nisht - "nothing" - nothing happens and the next player spins
Gimel - gants - "all" - the player takes the entire pot
Hey - halb - "half" - the player takes half of the pot, rounding up if there is an odd number
Shin - shtel ayn - "put in" - the player puts one marker in the pot.

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