Cookies
Cookies Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Ingredients
- 36 cookies (9 stars, 9 hearts, 9 flowers, 9 circles)
- 36 sprinkles
- 2 baking sheets
- 1 baking oven
- 3 dice
- 1 clock with hour and minute hands
- 1 alarm marker
Preheating the oven
First, put together the baking oven. If possible, get help from a grown-up.
Here's how to assemble the baking oven:
- Lay the insert into the lower part of the oven.
- Insert the side pieces into the lower part of the oven.
- Insert the oven door into the lower part of the oven.
- Attach the dial with the plastic rivet to the upper part of the oven. The dial is needed later in the game to open and close the oven door.
- Put the cover of the oven over the side pieces.
Getting ready to bake
Put the baking oven off to the side of your playing area. Put both baking sheets in the middle of the table. Sort the cookies according to their shape and put them together with the sprinkles next to the baking oven.
Put the clock in the playing area well within everyone's reach. Set the hour hand to 0 and the minute hand to 12. Put the alarm marker next to the clock. The alarm marker is used to indicate when the cookies need to be taken out of the oven.
Time to get baking!
The last one to eat a cookie goes first.
On your turn, roll all 3 dice. Look carefully at the results.
You can perform one of the following actions with your dice:
- Lay the cut out cookies on the cookie sheet
- Spread sprinkles over the cookies that are already on the cookie sheet
- Nibble a cookie
Lay the cut out cookies on the cookie sheet
If you have rolled cookies, decide on one of the kinds rolled. You can lay down as many cookies of the selected kind onto one of the two cookie sheets according to the number rolled. On each cookie sheet, you can lay down only one kind of cookie.
Example: Jacob has rolled the following: He can lay down either 3 round cookies, 2 heart-shaped cookies or one star-shaped cookie on the cookie sheet. On the first cookie sheet, there are already heart-shaped cookies, on the second sheet there are star-shaped cookies. Jacob chooses the heart-shaped cookies and lays 2 of them on the cookie sheet with the others. He can't choose the 3 round cookies, unfortunately, because both cookie sheets already have the other cookie shapes on them.
Sprinkles
If one of the dice you rolled has sprinkles on it, you get to take 2 sprinkle tiles for each die with the sprinkle symbol on it, placing them on cookies of one cookie sheet that have not yet been decorated. If there are leftover sprinkles, put them back into the reserve pile.
Nibble a cookie
If you can't use any of the symbols on the dice you rolled to either lay cookies on a cookie sheet or to decorate them with sprinkles, eat a cookie. Take a cookie from one of the cookie sheets and put it back into its reserve pile. If the cookie has sprinkles on it, put the sprinkles back into their reserve pile, too.
The clock is ticking!
Each die symbol that you cannot use moves the hand on the clock forward! For each unused die, move the minute hand one space forward.
Exception: You do not have to move the minute hand ahead,
- if you eat a cookie.
- for dice that you have chosen for your action but cannot use because there are not enough cookies or sprinkles left in the reserve pile.
Example: Hannah rolled the dice, which show sprinkles, star/heart and star/circle. She chooses the star so that she can use two of her rolled dice. However, on the cookie sheet with the star-shaped cookies only one star-shaped cookie is missing, so there is only one in the reserve pile. She takes the star and lays it on the cookie sheet. Now she has to move the minute hand only 1 space forward because of the die with the sprinkles symbol on it. The fact that she was able to lay only one star on the cookie sheet because there was only one in the reserve pile is of no consequence as far as the clock is concerned.
Once the minute hand strikes the 12 again, one hour has past. Move the hour hand down one space.
Into the oven they go
As soon as a cookie sheet is full with cookies and the cookies are all decorated with sprinkles, the cookie sheet needs to go into the oven. The last one to put sprinkles on the cookie sheet gets to slide the cookie sheet into the oven. Only one cookie sheet can be in the oven at a time.
Now the clock has to be set! Look to see which color the minute marker is on. Then set the alarm marker to the next space with this color in a clockwise direction. The cookie sheet has to stay in the oven until the minute hand strikes the alarm marker.
[Editor's note: the printed text says "minute marker" here; this is read as the minute hand, which points at the coloured spaces of the clock.]
As long as the cookie sheet is in the oven, you have only one cookie sheet, onto which you can lay your cookies and sprinkles!
The cookies are ready
As soon as the minute hand strikes the alarm marker, the cookies are ready. Take the cookie sheet out of the oven and remove the cookies and sprinkles. The cookies are done and can be put off to the side. Put the sprinkles back on the reserve pile of sprinkles.
Now put the cookie sheet next to the other one in the middle of the table. You can now lay the next cookies on it. If the other cookie sheet happens to be already full, when you took out the other cookie sheet from the oven, you can immediately slide it into the oven.
Finished
The game is over,
- if the hour marker lands on the space with the 4, OR
- if you have finished baking all the cookies before the hour marker lands on the space with the 4.
You have won as a team if you have managed to bake all four kinds of cookies, even if the last cookie sheet is still in the oven.
If the last cookie sheet is not yet in the oven when the hour hand strikes the 4, you have all lost together as a team.
Game variation for experienced cookie bakers
At the end of the game, count points: plus points for leftover time (1 point for each space), minus points for cookies that you have not yet laid onto the cookie sheet (1 minus point per cookie). You can then try to top your score in the next game!