ドキッと！アイス (Dokitto! Ice)
Dokitto! Ice Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 65 Flavor cards (13 cards of each flavor: Strawberry, Chocolate, Macha, Grape and Vanilla)
- 5 Topping tokens (1 of each flavor)
- 15 Ice tiles (3 of each flavor)
- 5 Cone tiles
- 25 Happiness tokens (front: 1 VP back: 5 VP)
- The rulebook (Japanese)
Preparation of the Game
Each player takes a Cone tile and puts it in front of himself/herself. If there are some Cone tiles left, put them back into the box.
Preparation of the Flavor Cards
The number of flavors (colors) used depends on the number of players:
| Number of players | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of flavors (Shop cards) | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
After the players have chosen what flavors they will use in this game, take the corresponding Ice Tiles and Topping tokens. The flavors that are not being used in this game are put back into the box.
Preparation of the Ice Tiles, Topping Tokens and Happiness Tokens
Shuffle separately the Ice tiles corresponding to the flavors you have chosen for this game and stack them face down on the side of the play area. Put the corresponding Topping tokens close to the corresponding flavor. Next to the Ice tiles and the Topping tokens, add the Happiness tokens.
Distribution of the Flavor Cards
Shuffle all the Flavor cards you will use for this game face down. Distribute the cards depending on the number of players:
| Number of players | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of cards | 6 | 8 | 10 | 13 |
Don't show your cards to the other players. The cards that have not been distributed for this round are put aside.
Choosing the First Player
The player that has had some ice cream the most recently is the First player.
How to Play
The game is composed of rounds and turns. On each turn, starting from the First player, players play a card from their hand. They then check who is winning during this turn and that player gets an Ice tile that will be added to his or her Cone. Once the round is finished, players check how many Happiness points (represented by Happiness tokens) they each receive. Players will play a number of rounds until one player or more reaches 10 Happiness points.
A turn is played as follows:
- The First player plays a card from his or her hand.
- The other players play a card from their hand.
- Players check who is winning this turn.
- The winner of the turn takes an Ice tile.
- The next turn starts.
Once all the players have no card left in hand, or if a player must take his or her 4th Ice tile, the round ends.
1. On Your Turn, the First Player Plays a Card from His or Her Hand
The starting player chooses a card from his/her hand and plays it face up.
2. Check Cards Strength and Who Wins the Turn
After the first card has been played, the other players play a card face up from their hand in clockwise order.
The other players must follow some rules when choosing and playing a card from their hand. If possible, the card played must be of the same flavor as the one played by the First player. If a player does not have a card of the same color in their hand, that player can choose any other card.
Once every player has played a card, players will check to see who wins this turn.
3. Check Who Wins the Turn
If all the cards played are of the same color, the card with the biggest number wins.
If one or more players played a card of a different color during this turn, the player who played the smallest number wins (in this case, only the number is relevant; the flavor of the cards played is not important anymore).
If more than one player played the smallest number, the last player who played that number wins the turn.
4. The Winning Player Takes an Ice Tile from the Stock
If the winning player won with the biggest value Flavor card, the Ice tile earned must be of the same flavor as the card that won the turn.
If the winning player won with the smallest value Flavor card, that player can take any Ice tile among the colors played this turn. The winning player has to take the first Ice tile available from the top of the stack.
After the player has taken an Ice tile, he/she adds it to his/her Cone. If there is no Ice tile available for the flavors played during this turn, the winning player can choose any Ice tile still available (but always from the top of the chosen stack)!
☆ This mark on the Ice tile indicates that the player also takes the Topping token for this flavor.
5. Going to the Next Turn
The winning player becomes the First player for the next turn. Players keep playing until they have no cards left in hand or if a player must take his or her 4th Ice tile.
End of the Round
A round can end if one of the following two conditions is met.
- A player must take his or her 4th Ice tile. If a player has to take his or her 4th Ice tile from the stock, the round ends immediately, even if players still have Flavor cards in hand. The player who had to take his or her 4th Ice tile is out of this round and does not get any Happiness points.
- Players have played all the cards from their hand. The round ends. All the players check how many Happiness points they earn for this round.
Calculating Happiness Points
Happiness points use the following scoring method: every Ice tile or Topping token you have on your Cone is worth 1 Happiness point.
At this moment, if a player has 10 Happiness points or more, the game ends. If not, players go to the next round.
Preparation of the Next Round
Shuffle all the flavor cards (adding the ones that were put aside during the previous round), do as in [Preparation of the Ice tiles, Topping tokens and Happiness tokens] and [Distribution of the Flavor cards]. You are ready for another round!
End of the Game
Once a player reaches 10 Happiness points, the game is over. Players then check who has the most Happiness points. If more than one player has the most Happiness points, these players share the victory.