All Stars Playlist Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Goal of the Game
• Preparation
• Contents
• The Music Cards
• The Assignment Cards
• The Action Cards
• Game Play
• Add Songs to Your Playlist
• At the End of Your Turn
• Winner
• Solo Play
• Icons

Goal of the Game

Create the perfect playlist by putting songs in your playlist that match with each other.

Preparation

Put on some music for fun. To hear the numbers of this game, scan the following code:

Open your Spotify app. Select search. Select the camera and scan following code:

(The booklet prints two QR codes, labelled YOUTUBE MUSIC and SPOTIFY. The codes themselves are not reproduced here.)

Contents

• 80 Music Cards
• 12 Assignment Cards
• 18 Action Cards
• 1 Rule Book

There are three different types of cards:

• Assignment cards (red back side). By fulfilling the assignments, each player can earn extra points.
• Music cards (green back side).
• Action cards (blue back side).

Keep these cards in separate stacks.

Shuffle the cards. Each player takes 2 assignment cards, 2 music cards and 2 action cards and does not show these to the other players. Place the remaining cards on one or more piles that everyone can reach.

The game is always played with a maximum of 4 genres. In case you have purchased one or more expansion packs, you switch 1 genre for the new genre. On the assignment cards you have to take this into account as well. So, for example, if you replace the genre "Country" for "Tik Tok Hits", you will have to read "Tik Tok Hits" where it says "Country" on the assignment cards.

Finally, put 5 music cards open on the table so everyone can see them clearly. These 5 cards together are called the Download List.

The Music Cards

Every card holds the following information:

1. The genre (pop, rock, country or R&B, Rap, Hip Hop)
2. The number of points this card represents when in your playlist
3. The name of the artist(s) and below that the title of the song
4. Numbered icons that reflect characteristics of the song (see the paragraph "Icons" for more information)

The cards are designed in such a way that they are easy to read by both left-handed and right-handed people.

The Assignment Cards

Every card holds the following information:

1. Number of points the player gets when the requirements of the card is met
2. Number of songs per genre that the player needs to have in their playlist to fulfill the assignment

The Action Cards

Every card holds the following information:

1. The action the player can perform (at any time) described in English
2. The action the player can perform (at any time) described in Dutch

The English action printed on the sample card reads: "Choose someone else to sing / humm the song you have to sing at the end of your turn. If they can't, they lose the last song in their own playlist."

(The Dutch text on each action card is a translation of the same action and is not reproduced here.)

Game Play

The person who listened to their own playlist the most recent, may start the game.

A turn consists of the following actions:

1. Take 1 card from the Download List
2. Add a new card to the Download List from the stockpile
3. Take another card from the Download List
4. Add a new card to the Download List from the stockpile
5. Add songs to your playlist (see below for further instructions);
6. If you have less than 2 Music Cards in your hand, take cards from the stockpile until you have 2 Music Cards in your hand. You cannot play these cards immediately. You have to wait for your next turn.
7. If you have finished an assignment card, turn it over and take a new assignment card unless there are no new assignment cards left.

Action cards can be played at all times. If you have placed 3 songs of the same genre in your playlist, you can take an extra action card from the stockpile. If there are no action cards left, take the action cards that have been played, shuffle them and this is the new stockpile for action cards.

Add Songs to Your Playlist

If you don't have a playlist, you can start a new playlist. Start a playlist by placing a minimum of 2 cards faced up in front of you. On your turn, you may add as many cards as you can to your playlist, but you can only make 1 playlist. If you are able to make a playlist, you have to do so. You are not allowed to keep any cards in your hand that you are able to play.

When creating or adding cards to a playlist you must take following rules into account:

One of the icons must match one of the icons of the last card that you laid down. For example, the following cards are correctly placed together: Bob Dylan "Blowin' in the Wind" (Country), The Beatles "Let It Be" (Pop) and Guns N' Roses "November Rain" (Rock). "Let It Be" sits in the middle and shares an icon with each of the other two cards.

Even though, "Blowin' in the Wind" and "November Rain" do not have similar characteristics, they can still be in the same playlist because "Let it Be" sits in the middle.

The following cards are not placed correctly together: The Prodigy "Out of Space" (Pop) and ABBA "Dancing Queen" (Pop). No icons match, so these cards cannot be placed right next to each other.

At the End of Your Turn

At the end of your turn, you have to sing or hum at least 2 lines of the last song you added to your playlist*. If you cannot do this, you have following options:

1. Be honest and say that you don't know it. If someone else can sing or hum at least 2 lines, they can slap the table and say I can do it. They then sing/hum at least 2 lines. If this is correct, that player can add the song to their playlist, but only if it matches the last card. If not, the card is put away. If the player is wrong, then nothing happens.
2. Bluff. You can just start singing a song. However, if you are called out and indeed it is wrong, the person that called you out can take the card and add that card to their playlist, but only if it matches the last card of their playlist. If it doesn't match the last card in his/her playlist, the card is put away.
3. If you are accused of bluffing, but you were actually correct, then the person calling you out loses their last card in their playlist.

* If you are not all that musical or just wish to play a fast-paced card game, you can optionally leave points 1-3 out. It is still fun to try and see if someone knows the song.

Winner

Once a player has been able to add 15 songs or more to their playlist, you finish the round and then the game stops. This ensures everybody has had the same number of turns. At that moment the points are counted according to the following system:

1. If you were able to collect at least 15 songs to your playlist, you start with a bonus point
2. Add the points of each song card
3. More bonus points are earned if the playlist contains 3 or more songs from the same genre as follows:
   • a. 3 cards from 1 genre: 1 bonus point
   • b. 4 cards from 1 genre: 2 bonus points
   • c. 5 cards from 1 genre: 3 bonus points
   • d. Etc.
4. Add to that the points of the Assignment Cards that were accomplished

The winner is the one whose playlist was worth the most points.

The winner may decide which music will be listened to.

Solo Play

Sometimes it is nice to make a playlist just by yourself. When you want to play the game solo, take out the bonus and negative cards from the stack of cards. Shuffle the remaining cards and take 20 cards randomly from the stack.

Lay these cards open in front of you.

The goal is to make a playlist with at least 10 points.

Start the Playlist by taking two cards that follow the following rules:

1. If the genre of the chosen cards is the same, there must also be at least 1 icon on both cards that is the same. Otherwise, the cards will not fit in the same playlist.
2. If the genre is not the same, there must be at least 2 icons the same on both cards.

Once you have a Playlist, you can add songs by finding a song that matches with the last or the first card in the Playlist. The matching rules that are described above stay applicable.

If you cannot add more songs to the Playlist, you can count your score by adding the points of each card together. More bonus points are earned if the playlist contains 3 or more songs from the same genre as follows:

• a. 3 cards from 1 genre: 1 bonus point
• b. 4 cards from 1 genre: 2 bonus points
• c. 5 cards from 1 genre: 3 bonus points
• d. Etc.

If you have scored more than 10 points, you won that round.

In the next round, take one card less, so only 19 cards and try to do the same. If you are successful, go for 18 cards etc.

You can play this solo-version also together with others, for example via videoconferencing. Every player will need their own copy of the game. One player takes 20 random cards and tells the other players which cards they have to take. Each player will try to make their own playlist. The one who was able to earn the most points wins. If players end up with the same amount of points, the player wins that was able to do it the quickest.

Icons

Each card has a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 icons. Here is the meaning of these icons:

1. Electrical Guitar
2. Guitar
3. Bass
4. Drums
5. Piano
6. Synthesizer / Keyboard
7. String Instrument
8. Wind Instrument
9. Alternative Instrument
10. Story Telling
11. Love / Friendship
12. Feel Good Song
13. Death
14. Dancing Music
15. Jazzy / Blues / Soul
16. Ballad
17. Acoustic
18. Sad / Dark
19. Rebellious
20. Movie / TV

• A. Sung by Aerosmith
• B. Sung by John Lennon / The Beatles
• D. Sung by Dolly Parton
• G. Sung by Lady Gaga
• L. Sung by Lionel Ritchie