Cave Paintings
Cave Paintings Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- Score Board
- 216 Ideas Cards
- 30 Me Guess Cards
- 18 card stands
- 6 Player Boards
- 6 Dry Erase Markers
- 1 Minute Sand Timer
The Goal
Draw good. Make smart guesses. Get many points. Win important title.
Setup
Shuffle Ideas cards and leave in Draw part of box. Put timer in middle of play area.
Each player choose color and get that drawing board with 3 card stands and 3 Ideas cards. Also 1 of each color Me Guess cards except their own. Give score sheet to smartest. Make them do work of scoring.
Painting
Put one Ideas card in each stand so you read only the side you like. Someone yell loud and turn timer over.
SAND GO FAST! DRAW NOW!
Try to draw picture for each of 6 words you see on cards.
Important Rules, Must Not Break!
- Good artist no erase! Waste time. Mistakes good art anyhow.
- No make letters, numbers or symbols. Only arrows... arrows good.
- Must only draw like this (illustration in the rulebook).
When sand gone, someone yell STOP! All drawing stops. Give annoying time watcher 1 point for big help.
Guessing & Scoring
Now each artist pass board to person on their right. Look at board you get. Write one guess for each picture on matching color Me Guess card. Nice to give everyone time to write guesses. Bang on table if people too slow.
When finished guessing, pass board to right, wait to receive new board from left. When all artists finish guessing for all boards, let annoying time watcher start presentation.
They show board to all and point each picture. People shout guesses. Artist tells real word. Guessers mark 1 pt on card if word guessed right. If at least half or more of guessers answer correctly, artist draw nice circle around picture. (Look scoring example next page, help understand better.) When finished with all pictures on board, scorekeeper give Artist 1 point for each picture circled.
Now next Artist presents pictures. Repeat til all have presented. If see good pictures, can always bang on table and grunt to show appreciation for good art!
Rule for Annoying Smarty-Loinclothes
Synonyms (big word, Ok to look up in dictionary) are good if you can make sentence where either works.
- Example: (Crocodile/Alligator) Guessed. "There was ______ in water, so I frightened." (GOOD. make sense both ways)
- Example: (Shark/Fish) Guessed. "There was ______ in water, so I frightened." (BAD, no one afraid of stupid fish)
If word is guessed that contains target word, it good enough.
- Example: Word is fire, and guess is campfire. This guess good.
- Example: Word is fire, and guess is spaghetti. This guess stupid, no points.
New Round
Place used Ideas in discard tray. Everyone draw 3 new Ideas cards. Repeat like above. Play 5 rounds for good game. Can change to more or less if prefer.
End of Game
Hard work done. Time for celebration. Have smart scorekeeper do math, announce totals. Highest total is big winner, can shout ME DRAW GOOD!
If tie, may have to use clubs. Or do one more round where only tied people draw using same three cards. When time is up, first artist present board and all non-artists guess. Then second artist presents. Artist with most correct guesses big winner. Still tied? Mmm, clubs only way.
Team Variant (Recommended for 7+ players)
Players form teams of 2, 3, 4, etc. One person draw for team, others guess. Next round, switch to new Artist, rest do guessing. Not hard, you figure out.
Funny Variant
Draw both words on your card as one! (clam cane, bull boy, etc.)