Games: Repeats from previous years but let's stay sharp!

Would you Rather?

  • Eat only maror the rest of your life OR drink only saltwater?
  • Be covered from head to toe in boils OR covered from head to toe in lice?
  • Recline whenever you eat OR dip everything you eat?
  • Die from extreme Marror Heart Burn or from Matzah Choking?
  • Hit the Dog OR Bite the Cat?
  • Still be in Eygpt OR still be in school 100 hours a week?
  • Drink 4 cups of maror juice OR 10 drops of blood?
  • Eat kosher for Passover all year round OR eat exclusively bread on Pesach?
  • Eat only matzah brei all year OR eat only cholent?
  • Have freed the Jews but brought them to Uganda OR Enslaved the Jews but enslaved them in Israel?
  • Live always in darkness but be rich OR live always in light but be poor?
  • Have a 1 hour seder with gourmet food at end OR a 9 hour seder with just OK food?
  • Have the 4 sons as your children OR have an only child that is wise?

LIGHTNING ROUND!!!!

How many of these can you answer in a minute…!!!

  • Why do we eat Matzah on Passover? To remind us of the dough that didn’t have time to rise as our forefathers were rushed out of Egypt.
  • Name the Four Sons? The wise, the wicked, the simple, and the one who doesn’t know how to ask.
  • How many cups of wine do we drink at the Seder? Four.
  • What things connected with Seder night are associated with the number four? Four sons, four cups of wine, four questions.
  • Why four cups of wine? To celebrate our freedom.
  • What is the fourth plague? Whild beasts/ ערוב
  • Why do we dip in the Charoset? The Charoset represents the cement that the Jews used to cement the bricks together in their slavery. Today we dip as a sign of freedom.
  • What does the shank bone remind us of? The Passover lamb which our forefathers sacrificed to God when they came out of Egypt.
  • Can you say all ten plagues in order? Blood, frogs, lice, wild beasts, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, plague of the firstborn.
  • Can you say the ten plagues backwards? Plague of the firsborn, darkness, locusts, hail, boils, pestilence, wild beasts, lice, frogs, blood.
  • Who am I? I am the last thing you eat before you bensch, say the blessing after the meal. There are often lots of fights over who hides me and who finds me. Who am I? The Afikoman.
  • Who am I? I am one of the key figures in the story of the going out of Egypt. I lost my whole army and half my country in my stubbornness. Who am I? Pharoah.
  • Who am I? I am one of the plagues. I made the Egyptians itch like crazy all over. Who am I? Lice.
  • Who am I? My name does not appear once in the Haggadah, but I went several times to Pharoah with my brother to try and persuade him to let the Jewish people go. Who am I? Moses.
  • Who do we fill a cup for on the Seder table and hope he comes and joins our Seder? Elijah.

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