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| > No Limit Texas Dreidel: Revival of the Spinning Top |
No Limit Texas Dreidel: Revival of the Spinning Top |
The new game sparks interest in the traditional Hanukkah toy. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Atlanta, GA - Dec 18, 2008 – Jennie Rivlin Roberts and Webb Roberts solved a problem that has been plaguing Jews for hundreds of years: the boring, yet ubiquitous Hanukkah dreidel game. They crossed dreidel with Texas Hold'em poker to create No Limit Texas Dreidel. The new game, played with multiple wooden tops, has adults and older children spinning dreidels instead of letting them lay dormant as holiday decoration.
In the fresh context of No Limit Texas Dreidel, the traditionally Jewish spinning tops are capturing people's attention. The game was included in Newsweek's gift guide in November and on NPR's Only A Game Holiday Gift Guide. During the radio interview Rivlin Roberts predicts that dreidels could be the next playing cards: "they are like dice but spinning... how fun is that!," she says.
Through the retail web-store, ModernTribe.com, Partner Erica Serbin speaks to dozens of customers ordering No Limit Texas Dreidel each day. Customers range from Orthodox to secular Jews, including a military Rabbi stationed in Germany who will be playing the game with his soldiers. Non-Jews are purchasing the game as well. "An Episcopalian man bought the dreidel game to play at his mixed-event on Christmas Eve," Serbin said. "It's a game Jews and gentiles can both enjoy."
Thousands of No Limit Texas Dreidel games will take place this Hanukkah, beginning the night of December 21 and lasting eight nights through December 28. This Hanukkah, Rivlin Roberts expects close to 8,000 games to be sold through ModernTribe.com and hundreds of stores nationwide including Bloomingdale's.
For more information about No Limit Texas Dreidel, please visit # # # About ModernTribe |
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