Clouds
Clouds Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Object of the Game
Help Mary find the matching halves of all her pictures to tape them back together. The player who matches and collects the most Picture cards wins the game!
Set-Up
- Shuffle the 30 cloud tiles and arrange them randomly in the center of the table, face up.
- Decide with the other players if you want to play with the real cloud images (on blue background - easier) or the illustrations (on red background - slightly harder) printed on either side of the cards.
- Shuffle the 15 cards and place them in a pile so that the side you have chosen to play with is face down.
Playing the Game
- The youngest player starts by flipping the top card over. In future rounds, take turns flipping.
- Race to search through the cloud tiles! You need to find the two halves that complete the image printed on the flipped card.
- If you find the tiles first, shout the name of the image they make and then put them together to check you are correct.
- If you are correct, put the tiles back where they were on the table and keep the card as a point.
- If you are incorrect, everyone continues searching while you sit out for the rest of the round.
Important: You cannot touch the tiles during the game, except to check if you are correct after finding a match.
Hint: Secretly remember where the first half of the picture is while you look for the second half, so you don't tip-off your opponents!
End of the Game
The game ends when all the picture cards have been used. The player who has found the most matches, and has the most cards, wins. If there is a tie the players share the victory.
Cooperative Version
Story
What a beautiful day it is! After a nice picnic with her friends, Mary lies down in the grass and says: "Look up there, it's a bear!" while pointing at a cloud in the sky. Thinking it's an exciting game, her friends join in and start looking for fun cloud shapes in the sky.
Object of the Game
Together, race to help Mary figure out shapes with all her clouds in under 2 minutes.
Set-Up
- Shuffle the 30 Cloud tiles and arrange them randomly in the center of the table, face up.
- Leave the picture cards aside, they will not be of use for this version.
Playing the Game
- The youngest player starts a 2 minute timer.
- Together, try to form the 15 cloud shapes before the time is up.
End of the Game
The game ends when all the Cloud tiles have been matched correctly or when the time runs out.
You win the game if you have managed to match all the tiles within 2 minutes.
Competitive Version
Story
Mary takes a few pictures of the clouds as a souvenir of such a beautiful afternoon. The following day, Mary is upset. All her pictures have been cut in half; her little brother has played a trick on her and now she has to tape them back together. She asks her friends to help her and they make it a game once again: to put the pictures back together as fast as possible!
The printed competitive panel gives only this story; its rules are the main game's Object of the Game, Set-Up, Playing the Game and End of the Game sections above.