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I have been spoiled by yellow kiwi. I think the label calls it gold kiwi, but we all call it yellow kiwi here.

I used to like normal green kiwi. It was good stuff. Then we tried the yellow kiwi. It was better, so we got it again. And again. The last several times we bought kiwi, it was the yellow variety. So we got used to that.

This last time, they didn’t have yellow kiwi, so we bought the green kiwi. It wasn’t the best batch of kiwi, and that highlighted another difference with the yellow kiwi – they are never bad. Ripe, they are yummy. Not ripe, still yummy. Too ripe, yep, still yummy.

So after all that, we are spoiled. The kids don’t trust green kiwi anymore.

Also, don’t bother with the red kiwi. It’s also not as good as the yellow stuff.

I thought about maybe having it say “Fourwarned is fourarmed”. Alternately, I could have done something with someone’s forearms and left it as “Forewarned is forearmed”. But I liked this version of “Forewarned is fourarmed” the best.

This is a guide for how to play the game Flip 7.

1. How do I win?
By having the most points at the end of all the rounds. Once someone reaches 200 points, the game ends.

2. How do I get points?
By accumulating cards. Each card has a point value, just add them up each round.

3. How do I get cards?
At the start of each round, the dealer gives each person one card. All cards are dealt face up. And then whoever wants another card, the dealer deals another card. You can keep taking cards if you want, or you can stop with what you have and take those points. If you bust, you don’t get any points. If you make a set of 7, then you end the round.

4. How do you bust?
If you get two cards of the same point value, you bust. The higher the point value of the card, the more of them there are in the deck, so the more likely you are to bust. When you bust, you are done for the round and get no points for that round.

5. How do you make a set of 7 cards?
You get a bonus 15 points if you collect 7 cards of different point values. There are regular number cards and special cards, the special cards do not count toward the set of 7, but they can give you points.

It’s a fairly quick game, not much to it. It leans towards the luck side of things, more than skill, but it’s fun nonetheless.

There, now go play Flip 7.

The prices in our local grocery store usually reasonable, like this:

Three dollars and 99 cents per package. Not too bad.

But sometimes they try to trick you into paying way too much, like this:

Four hundred and ninety nine dollars? Nice try.

I am happy to report though, that the sign printer and the pricing system were not in sync.