by K
At the request for guessing, Yandex issued a page with various ways, among them was this:

Guessing on the cups

In the night of the New Year, all members of the family take a spoonful of water and take it to a cold place, and in the morning they look: who has water frozen with deepening, he will die, and who has a spoonful or a spoonful - will live in the coming year.

What a gesture. "Mommy is your spoon! Do not worry!"