{"id":1465,"date":"2018-05-03T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:30:29","slug":"roll-a-pizza-activity-brings-laughter-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/2018\/05\/03\/roll-a-pizza-activity-brings-laughter-and-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll A Pizza Activity Brings Laughter and Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Applewood, activity director Tiffany M. and the residents have invented their own dice game, which Tiffany titled \u201cRoll a Pizza.\u201d The game involves oversized dice, mounds of felt cloth material and a complete dependence on luck\u2026most of the time.<\/p>\n

\"Roll-a-pizza-applewood2\"In Roll A Pizza, residents gather at a table and take turns trying to build a \u201cpizza\u201d out of colored bits of felt material; whoever assembles their crust, sauce, cheese, pepperoni, green peppers and sausage the quickest triumphs. Each piece of material (a circular, tan mat symbolizes the crust, a smaller red circle represents the sauce) corresponds to a number (1 for the crust, which is the first ingredient a real pizza is built on, 2 for sauce, 3 for cheese), and the players roll the dice in hopes of coming up with the number of the ingredient they need next. As the game begins, each tries to roll a 1 to grab a crust; those who do then shoot for a 2 for sauce, then a 3 for the small, yellow circle of cheese. The players keep rolling until one has stacked all six of their pizza\u2019s pieces.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome will cheer for each other, and say \u2018You need such-and-such a piece, you can get it here,\u2019\u201d Tiffany noted.<\/p>\n

And this is uncommon, but\u2026sometimes a player might use a display of \u201cskill\u201d to manufacture the number they need. Tiffany has seen residents simply place their die on the table with the digit they need facing up; others will \u201croll\u201d by gently flicking the die\u2019s side, flipping it over one corner, so it \u201clands\u201d on the outcome they desire.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all in fun, though,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Monica G., an Applewood resident since 2011, boasted about her infraction-free playing record.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a game I enjoy,\u201d Monica said. \u201cI like getting involved with the activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is also fond of bingo, and noted that she and Applewood receptionist Kathy W. sometimes travel together to a bingo hall in nearby Hazel Crest \u2014 from which Monica recently brought home $8 in net profit.<\/p>\n

There is no cash at stake in Roll a Pizza, but winners do haul in a variety of prizes. And Tiffany said the homegrown competition can do more for some players than just amuse them for an hour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helps them with memory, and spurs conversation about family members,\u201d the activity director said. \u201cWe\u2019re drawing out ideas, and getting them to reminisce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Applewood, activity director Tiffany M. and the residents have invented their own dice game, which Tiffany titled \u201cRoll a Pizza.\u201d The game involves oversized dice, mounds of felt cloth material and a complete dependence on luck\u2026most of the time. In Roll A Pizza, residents gather at a table and take turns trying to build… Read more»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generationsapplewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}