Devine The Sogne
Devine The Sogne Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Set Up
- Choose the difficulty level you want to play at. The set-up illustration shows example cards captioned with the difficulty levels: "Très fafa baby," "Pretty much fafa," "Not very fafa," and "Not fafa pantoute."
- Take 10 cards at random without looking at them, and place the cache card on top of them.
- Keep the rest of the cards within reach.
- Attach your tuques with a pin!
The cache card ("la cache card") is a cover card. It lets you avoid revealing the clues or the answer straight away.
How the Game Works
The player who most recently listened to the radio is designated as the animator. The animator takes the deck and reveals the first card, just enough to see the excerpt; the cache card keeps the clues and the answer hidden. The animator reads the excerpt aloud, and then the group tries to find the title of the song (the "sogne").
As soon as you guess the sogne, well done: you win three points! Use the cards set aside to count the points.
If nobody guesses, the animator reveals a bit more of the card to show clue 1. The group may discuss again. If you guess correctly at this step, you win two points. If you still cannot find it, the animator reveals the second and last clue. A correct answer at this step is worth one point.
If nobody manages to find the song title at this step, the card is removed from the game and put back in the box (ouch! It's kind of annoying). The person to the left of the animator is designated as the new animator.
End of the Game and Scoring
The game ends when all 10 cards drawn at the start of the game have been played.
Score tiers:
- 0–9 points: Ouch! You just had a big rinse! Try again, you'll be fine.
- 10–19 points: We don't know how to tell you this, but... you still have some croutes (crusts) to eat.
- 20–24 points: Okay, okay, not bad at all. You can start to think you're good, a little.
- 25–29 points: Drop the mic. We are almost jealous.
- 30 points (perfect): OMG! BRAVO! Did you cheat or what?! As Ed Sheeran says: "You are perfect."
Competitive Variant
For this variant, form at least two teams.
Place the deck of cards within reach and place the cache card on top.
The person who most recently listened to the radio is designated as the animator. They take the top card of the deck and read the excerpt. The others must try to find the title of the song. As soon as a team finds the title, it wins the card, and one of its members becomes the next animator.
If nobody finds the title of the song, even after both clues have been revealed, the card is set aside, and a member of the team to the left of the animator is designated as the new animator.
The first team to accumulate 5 cards wins the game.
Note: the variant's set-up does not repeat the 10-card selection step given in the standard set-up; it is transcribed as printed.
May the best translator win!