El Tonto del Pueblo
El Tonto del Pueblo Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preparation
Before starting to play, you must set up the question deck. There are 4 types of questions, which you can mix as you like, depending on which themes you do not want to appear during the game.
The question types are:
- GENERAL CULTURE
- POPULAR WISDOM
- FRIENDS
- HOT (Calientes)
We recommend that the hot questions not be played in family settings or Catholic settings. We also recommend not using the friends questions if you are a group that has just met, or if there are pre-existing tensions.
How to Play
Once the question deck is prepared and shuffled, the youngest player draws the first card. Each card has two questions; to begin, the first one is read.
Each player must write their answer to the question in secret. Once everyone has their answer, they are all revealed at the same time and players check which answers match. The player or players with the least common answer are penalised with one TONTO point, which they write on their whiteboard.
We will now go through two examples of who would get TONTO points in two different situations:
Example 1
The question is the Popular Wisdom card "What is the best day to go out partying?" The answers shown are Saturday, Friday, Thursday, Saturday and Friday. The Thursday answer is the only one given by a single player, so that player receives the TONTO point (marked on the illustration with the "Punto de TONTO" arrow).
Example 2
The illustration shows eight answers: Friday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. The question for this example is not printed in the text of the manual. Thursday and Saturday are each given three times, while Friday is given twice. The two players who answered Friday are the least common answer, so each of them (marked on the illustration with a TONTO point) receives one TONTO point.
At the end of the round, the second question of the card is read, and then the process is repeated.
If at any point a player forgets to count a TONTO point, and someone notices when the points are counted, an extra TONTO point is added to that player.
Once someone has 10 TONTO points, they are proclaimed EL TONTO DEL PUEBLO (THE VILLAGE FOOL), and the other players may call them TONTO for one minute. A good way to do it is the following; you can practise: Toooontooo, tooooontooo, toooontoooo. If anyone feels inspired to add an instrument, please post it on YouTube.