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Use tweezers to remove ailment pieces from a patient without touching the metal sides — touch them and the buzzer sounds. A hilarious dexterity game that tests your steady hands.

The Essentials

Rules

Remove each plastic ailment piece using only the metal tweezers, since touching the metal edge of any cavity with the tweezers completes the electrical circuit and triggers the buzzer and nose light.
Draw a Doctor's Fee card for every successful removal, since this determines the money reward for that turn and keeps score consistent across players.
If the buzzer sounds, your turn ends immediately and passes to the next player, regardless of whether the piece was fully removed, since triggering the buzzer counts as a failed attempt.
The player with the most money after all pieces are removed (or after an agreed number of rounds) wins, since Operation is fundamentally a cash-accumulation game built around the extraction mini-game.

Tips

Steady your hand by bracing your elbow or wrist against the table edge, since even small hand tremors are amplified by the sensitivity of the metal-cavity contacts.
Approach each piece from the angle that avoids the surrounding metal edges rather than going straight down, since many pieces (like the wishbone or butterflies in the stomach) have very little clearance.
Go slowly rather than rushing even when other players are waiting, since speed doesn't earn bonus points but touching the edge ends your turn immediately.
Play left-handed if you're right-handed (or vice versa) for an extra challenge once the game feels too easy, since this recreates the fine-motor difficulty the game is designed around.
Teach young children to hold the tweezers close to the tip rather than by the handles' full length, since a shorter grip gives more precise control over hand tremor.

Min number of participants	1
Age	6+ yrs.
Safety support by adult	Not required
Min duration	20 min.
Cost	Low
Environment	Indoor / Outdoor