La Fallera Calavera 2: els ingredients de la discòrdia
La Fallera Calavera 2: els ingredients de la discòrdia Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Setup
This expansion consists of 51 new cards that must be added to the original 102-card deck, making one large deck of 153 cards. The deck also includes a very unusual card, the Misteri d'Elx, which may optionally be added to the game, and the humour coin, which is essential for playing La Fallera Calavera 2.
Before starting the game, prepare the humour coin by sticking the adhesive labels of the contented fallera (green) and the angry fallera (red) on each of the two faces of the small disc included in the box.
Then shuffle the 51 expansion cards together with the original deck. Shuffle all the cards well!
The expansion cards show a small 2 symbol at the top of the bone frame. This symbol lets you tell the La Fallera Calavera 2 cards apart from the original game's cards, in case you later want to separate them again. We recommend leaving the Misteri d'Elx out of your first games. See the section on that card below for what to do with it.
Card icons in this expansion (as explained on the rules sheet):
- A small 2 at the top of the frame marks a card as belonging to La Fallera Calavera 2.
- A "+info" mark means there is more information about that card in the rules.
- The humour coin icon means the card requires the humour coin to be tossed in the air.
Note: if this is your first time playing La Fallera Calavera, we recommend playing a few games with the original game before trying this expansion.
How to Play La Fallera Calavera 2
The goal of La Fallera Calavera 2 is the same as in the original game: gather 5 ingredients. But be careful! Three new ingredients have appeared that the zombie can reject at the moment the paella is offered to her!
- Xoriç: forbidden ingredient. No player with the xoriç on their counter may declare victory, even if they have 5 valid ingredients. If a player has this ingredient on their counter, they must try to get rid of it with cards such as the vent de Llebeig, l'Ofrena, and so on.
- Seafood ingredients (gamba de Dénia and clòtxina espia): these ingredients may or may not please La Fallera Calavera, depending on her mood. Check her mood at the moment you offer her the paella, that is, at the precise instant you have 5 valid ingredients on your counter, even if you received them outside your turn (because of a riuà, for example). At that moment you must toss the humour coin as many times as you have seafood ingredients. It does not matter if you also have 5 traditional paella ingredients: the presence of seafood in your paella obliges you to toss the coin, and you must get as many heads (cara) as you have seafood ingredients in order to win the game. If you get tails (cruz), you do not win, and the next player steals one card from your hand for each tails obtained. You may try again on your next turn if you keep your 5 ingredients.
Note: if you start a turn already holding 5 valid ingredients to win the game, but some of them are seafood, then on your turn you may only toss the humour coin and take no other action. You must keep doing this until you win or until you no longer have 5 valid ingredients.
Situations with the Ingredients of Discord
- The diabolical xoriç: Josep has 5 valid ingredients, but he also has the xoriç, so for now he cannot win the game.
- Today the Fallera does not want gamba: David has just stolen the rabbit. He now has 5 ingredients and none of them is the xoriç, but one is the gamba de Dénia. He tosses the coin once because he has one seafood ingredient. It lands on tails, so the next player steals one card from his hand and the game continues.
- Mixed paella: Ren has 6 ingredients, but he must toss the coin twice, because he has 2 seafood ingredients. Both land on tails, so the next player steals 2 cards from his hand and the game continues.
- Sea victory: Eugeni has won a Batalla de Almansa that was called against him, and now has 6 ingredients. Even though it is not his turn, he has just received the necessary ingredients, and he has 2 seafood ingredients, so he tosses the coin twice. It lands on one heads and one tails: he cannot win, because although he would already have five accepted ingredients, the fallera has rejected one of the ingredients in his paella. The next player steals one card from him for the tails obtained. When his turn comes, Eugeni has managed to keep the ingredients, so without taking any other action he tosses the coin twice again (once for each seafood ingredient). Fortunately, both land on heads. He wins the game!
The Power of Seafood
Although the seafood ingredients may not please the Fallera, they have special powers that can benefit you:
- Clòtxina espia: whenever you have it on your counter, all the battle cards used against you are shown face up. Keep in mind that special cards attached to battle cards are not revealed.
- Gamba de Dénia: it can give you an extra card each turn whenever you have it on your counter. At the start of the turn, remember to toss the humour coin. Only if it lands on heads do you draw a card from the deck. Whether it lands on heads or tails, you then make a normal play.
- What happens if you also have a tartana del Tio Pep on your counter? In that case, you draw two cards if the coin lands on heads and zero if it lands on tails. And what if you have the taronger putrefacte? You draw first for the gamba de Dénia (if the coin lands on heads), and then the card corresponding to the taronger putrefacte.
Note on the source: the printed Spanish sheet breaks off at "al taronger" in this sentence. The words "putrefacte" (the card name) are supplied from the printed Valencian original, which reads "després la corresponent al taronger putrefacte".
The Humour Coin
La Fallera Calavera can be either contented or terribly angry. This coin is not only used with the seafood ingredients: cards marked with the corresponding symbol also require the coin to be tossed in the air. Depending on whether the Fallera is contented or angry (heads or tails), the effect of that card will be different.
The Apocalypse Fideuà
Unlike the original game, in The Ingredients of Discord the time to feed the Fallera is limited. At the exact moment when the 153 cards of the deck run out, the game ends automatically. At that instant, whoever has the fideuà de l'apocalipsi on their counter wins, regardless of anything else. That player wins even if they also have the xoriç!
The Revolt of the Germanies
The special card revolta de les Germanies allows you to call a multiple battle with a single attack, obtaining one treasure from each player you choose. You are not required to attack all the players. Place your attack face down, as in any normal battle, and state whom you are attacking and which treasure you are battling for. Each attacked player must also present a defence (or surrender without presenting any battle card). Then reveal your attack and compare it individually with each defence. You may win some battles and lose others, but you use only one attack.
During the revolta de les Germanies you may also use special cards. Most of these cards affect only one of the individual battles. For example, the espionatge (and the clòtxina espia), the aigua de València, the tomatina violenta, the masclet… only have an effect in the individual battle in which those cards were used. Likewise, defending players with a muralla de Morella or a falla descomunal are not affected by the revolta de les Germanies, because they cannot be attacked.
However, there is a series of cards that the attacker may use that do affect all the players in the defence. These are the cards placed face down attached to the attacker's battle card (for example, the espill lluent or the home del sac).
Also, the moro mussa and the alcaldesa perpètua cannot return to the attacker's hand if they lose a single one of the individual battles.
Example of the revolta de les Germanies: in a 5-player game, Enric uses the revolta de les Germanies and places the Tombatossals card face down, as in any battle. He does this to steal Santi's bajoqueta, Mari Pau's clòtxina and Marta's conill. The three attacked players each present a defence. Then the cards are revealed, and Enric compares his Tombatossals with Santi's xicona de Xixona, Mari Pau's cagalló and Marta's cuca fera. He wins two battles out of three, so he takes two ingredients.
Tirisiti
The special card Tirisiti allows you to play with the cards in another player's hand. You take them and make a play with one of their cards. But be careful! If you do not like them, you cannot use your own hand cards in that play, only theirs. You may attack that same player, and they will not be able to defend, since they temporarily have no cards in hand.
Note: Tirisiti affects only cards in hand, not the counters of the players involved. Therefore, if you make plays that affect cards on the counter, consider your own counter and not the counter of the player affected by Tirisiti. This means, for example, that if you obtain treasures with cards from the rival's hand, they go to your counter and not to theirs.
The Misteri d'Elx
The Misteri d'Elx is not a special card, a battle card or a treasure. It is all of these at the same time. You may decide whether or not to include this card in the game. If you do, agree before starting the game what function it will have. Write it down if necessary!
6-Player and 2-Player Games
Unlike the original game, La Fallera Calavera 2 allows 6-player games. The rules are the same as always, but keep in mind that the cabeça d'alls counts as two ingredients in 6-player games as well. In 2-player games, remember that you must deal 10 cards at the start and remove the cards marked with a II.