Exacto
Exacto Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
15 Boards. Each board has a front side showing 8 colored circles and a back side with two holes.
Idea of the Game
Take two boards. Flip one board to its front side showing the 8 colored circles, and the other to its back side. Carefully observe the distance between both holes on the back side. You'll need to match this exact distance with the distance between any 2 of the colored circles on the front side. There's always only one solution. You can only look for the matching circles by observing and assessing with your eyes. When you think you've found the solution, clearly state the color of both circles out loud. For example: "Purple and blue" (see image below).
Place the back side onto the front side so the two holes cover the colored circles you mentioned. The solution is only correct if both circles can be seen precisely and completely through both of the holes.
Correct
The back side is placed onto the front side in such a way that both colored circles can be seen precisely and completely through both of the holes. It all matches perfectly!
Careful, incorrect
When you think you've found the two colored circles that match the required distance and it turns out one of these circles cannot be seen precisely and completely through its hole, your solution is incorrect. The mistake will always be clearly visible (off by at least 3mm).
The circle doesn't match the hole precisely. The solution is incorrect!
How to Play
Shuffle the 15 boards and place them in a face-down draw pile near the edge of the table. Draw two boards from the pile and place them next to each other in the middle of the table. Flip the first board to its front side and leave the second board face down.
Randomly determine a starting player, who observes the two boards. You're not allowed to pick them up! This player now tries to guess the correct solution. State loud and clear which colored circles you think will be precisely and completely visible through the two holes.
It's Sarah's turn. She carefully observes the various distances between the circles. She takes a guess: "Yellow and pink are a perfect match!"
She takes the face-down board and checks her guess by placing the holes over the colored circles she mentioned.
Both colored circles need to be precisely and completely visible through the two holes, otherwise her guess is incorrect. If that's the case, both boards are placed next to each other again. Then, the next player in clockwise order can take a guess.
Unfortunately, yellow and pink aren't a perfect match. Sarah returns the two boards to the table and the next player can take a guess.
Players take turns in clockwise order until someone finds the correct solution, meaning two colored circles are precisely and completely visible through the two holes. That player receives the face-down board as a reward. Place the face-up board underneath the draw pile near the edge of the table.
Prepare a new round by taking two new boards from the draw pile and placing them in the middle of the table as described above. The player to the left of the player who won the previous board starts the next round.
The game continues this way until only 1 of the 15 boards remains. The player who won the most boards is the winner. Of course, you can also decide that the first player to win (for example) 3 boards is the winner.