A family favorite. Played for chocolate coins or, in some high stakes circles, for real gelt. Rules are simple. Spin and you might just win. If you get a "Gimmel", that is. A "Shin" on the other hand - you gotta put one in.
Reminds me of a story tape I heard as a child. The main character, Feitel Van Zeidel, a wealthy guy who wants to be even richer, commissions a dreidel from a carpenter with Gimmels on all four sides. When the hapless carpenter models the finished product, the Dreidel spins, and spins, and spins some more. It spins out of the shop and leads the greedy Gimmel guy and the whole town on a comical Dreidel chase.
You see, the dreidel with it's four possible outcomes, is meant to remind us that there's a certain unavoidable measure of Mazel (fortune) that we are destined to experience. Just as the Dreidel is spun from the handle above, so too, our life with its ups and downs, is spun by a Higher Power.