Buggo Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Object of the Game
• Before You Begin
• Playing the Game
• BUGGO
• End of the Game
• Component Notes: The Bugs

Contents

55 Cards 36 Bug Tiles Game Rules

Object of the Game

To collect the most Bug tiles and BUGGO tiles!

Before You Begin

The first time you play carefully punch out the tiles and cards from the cardboard sheets.

1. Shuffle the 55 playing cards and place them face down on the table.
2. Lay the tiles bug-side-down on the table and mix them up. You may arrange them in rows or leave them scrambled up. Rows will make the game easier to play.

Playing the Game

1. The youngest player goes first. The turn then passes to the next player to the left.
2. On your turn, select the top card from the deck, turn it over, and place it face up next to the deck.
3. If the card contains a number (one - five) the player attempts to find that many bugs in the sandbox of tiles.

The object is to collect as many tiles as possible, so look for tiles with lower numbers of bugs.

Turn over any tile. You may choose to continue turning over tiles, adding together the number of bugs shown on the tiles.

4. If you find the exact number of bugs, stop. Take those tiles from the table and place them in a pile in front of you.

If you go over the number of bugs on your card, turn all those tiles back face down in place.

If you do not want to risk going over the number on your card, you may stop selecting tiles and take the ones you have already turned up.

The turn passes to the next player to the left.

BUGGO

1. When a card contains BUGGO the spider, you must try to find and turn up a matching BUGGO tile. If successful, you get to take the tile. If you select any other tile it is turned back face down in place.
2. When you are searching tiles for a number of bugs and turn over a BUGGO tile, OH NO you must turn all those tiles back face down in place - AND return one of your own tiles back face down to the table. You must first show all players the tile and where you are placing it.

If all cards are used up during the game, shuffle them and use them again.

End of the Game

1. Play continues until a fourth BUGGO tile is collected.
2. The player with the most TILES wins the game!

Tie-Breaker - If players have the same number of tiles, then the player with the most BUGGO tiles wins!

Component Notes: The Bugs

The tiles depict the following bugs.

• Stink Bug: Blue with red and yellow stripes. When disturbed, they discharge a foul smelling liquid.
• Metallic Woodboring Beetle: Black tail with a little blue and yellow up front. The larvae excavate galleries inside trees to obtain food.
• Treehopper: Turquoise and red with a sharp tail. When resting on a twig, it looks like a thorn.
• Burying Beetle: Round and dark purple. Some larvae eat spinach, beets, and other vegetables.
• Leafhopper: Skinny, orange, and yellow. Secretes a honeydew which attracts ants, flies, and wasps.
• Spittlebug: Green with orange and red splotches. Hops about like a tiny frog, and its young hide in bubbles of their own spittle.
• Longhorned Beetle: Yellow with turquoise legs. Has a mustache-shaped antennae that is often 3 times longer than its body.