Clue Carnival: The Case of the Missing Prizes Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Which Game?
• Set-Up
• Simple Game
  • Your Mission
  • How to Play
  • How to Guess
  • How to Reveal the Truth
• Clever Carnival Game
  • Set-Up
  • How to Play
  • On Your Turn
  • ALL GUESS!
  • Secret Paths
  • Storage

Contents

Gameboard (in 2 pieces), plastic tray, 5 movers, 6 "Who" cards, 6 "Where" cards, 6 "When" cards, 1 All Guess card, 18 Guess tokens in 5 colors, 3 gold tokens, Truth envelope, Detective Sheets, and a die.

Which Game?

• The Simple Game is perfect for younger kids, or kids that aren't used to the game. Follow the blue instructions (Simple Game rules below).
• For kids that are older, or have mastered the Simple Game, play the Clever Carnival Game using the red instructions (Clever Carnival Game rules below).

Set-Up

1. Take everything out of the plastic tray. Leave the tray in the box and make sure the arrow on the tray lines up with the arrow on the inside of the box.
2. Put gameboard Piece 1 directly next to the box on a flat surface, with Side 1A facing up, so that the paths match up.
3. Put gameboard Piece 2 on top of the plastic tray with Side 2A facing up, as shown.
4. Divide the Who, When and Where cards into three separate piles and remove the Where pile – these are for the Clever Carnival rules only.
5. Without looking at them, shuffle the Who cards facedown in a pile and put the top one in the Truth envelope. Do the same for the When cards.
6. Shuffle the rest of the Who and When cards all together.
7. Put the cards on the grey rectangles on the gameboard, facedown. Some rectangles will have one card and some will have two. It doesn't matter which!
8. Give the ALL GUESS card to the oldest player.

Simple Game

Your Mission

The prizes have gone missing at the carnival! It's up to you to find out who stole them and at what time by visiting rides and crossing off what you see on the cards.

How to Play

1. All take:
   • A colored mover
   • 10 matching-color Guess tokens
   • A detective sheet. Use Side A and keep your notes secret while you play!
2. Put your movers on their colored start spaces.
3. The player to the left of the oldest player goes first.
4. On your turn: Roll the die and move the number of spaces shown along the path, following the arrows.
   • You don't have to land on the rides by exact count!
   • If you get to a ride, secretly look at the cards there. On your detective sheet, put crosses next to the things you see.
   • For example, if you're on the Super Slide and you see these cards (a Who card showing a man and a When card showing 2:00), cross them off like this: this means that Mustard did not take the prizes and that it did not happen at 2 o'clock!
   • Your turn is over.
5. ALL GUESS!
   • The oldest player looks after this card. Every time they have taken their turn, they must remind the rest of the players that: "It's time to guess!" ALL players make a guess about Who stole the prizes and When!

How to Guess

1. Look at your detective sheet. Remember, the people and times that you haven't crossed off could all be the right answers. (The people and times that you have crossed off are definitely NOT the right answers!)
   • Decide on:
     • the person that you think stole the prizes (someone you HAVEN'T crossed off)
     • AND
     • the time that you think it happened (a time you HAVEN'T crossed off)
   • Take two of your Guess tokens and put them in the slots next to the person and time you've chosen.
2. Play until you've all used all 10 of your Guess tokens. It's time to find out the truth!

How to Reveal the Truth

1. Take the cards out of the Truth envelope to reveal Who stole the prizes and When.
2. Put a gold token into each of the two matching slots. For example, if Green stole the prizes at 4 o'clock, put a gold token in both of those slots.
3. Lift the card off of the plastic tray.
4. Remove the Guess tokens from the two holes containing the gold tokens and lay them out in lines by color.
5. Whoever has the longest line of Guess tokens made the most correct guesses and is the WINNER!

TURN OVER FOR THE CLEVER CARNIVAL RULES!

Clever Carnival Game

(for older children)

Play Clever Carnival in the same way as before, but guess Where the prizes were hidden as well! There are more rides to visit too. Play using the Simple Game rules, with these differences:

Set-Up

• Place pieces 1 & 2 of the gameboard with sides 1B and 2B facing up.
• Keep the Where cards in the game. Shuffle them and put them in a facedown pile, and put the top card into the Truth envelope (with one Who and one Where card).
• Shuffle the remaining Who, When and Where cards all together, then put the cards on the grey spaces on the gameboard. Some rides will have one card, and some will have two – it doesn't matter which!

How to Play

Tokens: Take all 18 of your matching colored Guess tokens.

Detective Sheet: Use Side B of your detective sheet, so that you can cross off rides as well as people and times.

On Your Turn

If you end your turn on the path (not on a ride), ask any other player if they have crossed off a certain thing on their detective sheet. For example, "Have you crossed off 2 o'clock?" They must answer truthfully by whispering "Yes" or "No", so that the other players don't hear! If they said "yes", cross it off on your sheet too.

ALL GUESS!

When it's time to ALL GUESS, guess Where you think the prizes are hidden (as well as Who took them, and When). Use 3 tokens each time.

Secret Paths

Look out for the Secret Paths around the Carnival. If you get to a Secret Path during your turn, use it to jump to any other Secret Path space and continue your turn from there!

Storage

1. In their color groups, [word unreadable in scan] the Guess tokens and gold tokens into separate pockets in the plastic tray.
2. Put everything else in the large pocket in the tray.
3. Put the pieces of gameboard on top of the tray.