“El toro” (traduced: the bull) is a funny game for the weekend nights. It’s a modified version of “La peseta”, a popular game for the asturian teens.
“La peseta”, that universaly we could name the coin, consists on putting four little glasses together in the middle of a table, half fill them with calimocho (a drink made with wine and coke) or beer or wathever you want to drink, and, in turns, try to bounce the coin in the table to put it into a glass. If you put the coin into one of the glasses, you may order another player to drink it, and you throw the coin again. If you put the coin into the middle of the glasses (there is a hole between the four glasses) you order to other players to drink all of the glasses.
In el toro, rules are different. The mecanism to throw the coin is the same, but in this time you only have one glass half filled. When the coin comes to you, you have to throw it until you put it into the glass, drink it and give the coin to the next player. There are two (or more) coins in the table, and when the second coin comes to a player that is still throwing the first one, this player drinks all the glasses of the table because he was catched by the bull. It is a stressing game, and in half an hour you are really filled of drink, and sometimes a little drunk, but it’s so funny.
Last friday we were playing to el toro, and we laugh a lot the players and the drivers, that were watching the game without drink. Some of us got a little drunk, but it was not so serious. It was a good night.
