Easter Sunday 1956 Younger Tripp kids

Hope the Easter Bunny found your house ok.

Easter at the Tripp House was always a fantastic day. You know, I think we enjoyed it as much if not more than Christmas. Providing Christmas for a buch of kids is very expensive and quite often what we received was clothing and shoes for the next year, games to share and so on.

But Easter was totally differnt, we would get up and everyone had a basket to find somewhere in the house and beleive me the Bunny got to be vefry good at hidding those baskets. After gorging ourselves with candy we would play the "Egg Cracking Game". In talking to many individuals I have yet to find another family that engaged in this sport.

Bill 8 years, Bob 6 years, Rich almost 5 years

and Patsy almost 2 years old.

Which egg will crack?

Question: What is the Game Played with Red Eggs at Greek Easter?

There's some kind of game Greeks play at Easter with the red eggs. What is it?

Answer: The game is called tsougrisma and it involves two players and red eggs.

Each player holds a red egg, and one taps the end of her/his egg lightly against the end of the other player's egg. The goal is to crack the opponent's egg. When one end is cracked, the winner uses the same end of her/his egg to try to crack the other end of the opponent's egg.

The player who successfully cracks the eggs of the other players is declared the winner and, it is said, will have good luck during the year.

There are no rules about which end of the egg to tap first, how to hold it, or how to tap - but I've never seen a "system" that works all the time!

The word tsougrisma means "clinking together" or "clashing." In Greek: , pronounced TSOO-grees-mah.

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Easter Egg Cracking Party Game

You Will Need - Eggs

Rules

Test the eggs first by knocking them against their eye tooth, and then choose the best egg to use for the game.

The contestants must agree beforehand on how much of their eggs will be covered by their hands, as revealing a large part of the egg's shell is much more risky.

The game begins with the contestants trying to crack the pointed ends of each other's eggs.

The person who loses must then turn his or her egg upside down. If a player cracks both ends of someone's egg, then he/she wins the egg.