Line Up!
Line Up! Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
- a game board
- 250 question cards
- 10 small cards, numbered 1 to 5 in yellow and blue
- two dice, one blue and one yellow
- two card racks, one blue and one yellow
- two playing pieces, one blue and one yellow
- a blue card holder
Cards
- Question cards: Each turn, a question card is placed in the special card holder. While answering, the question faces the players so that everyone can see it. After answering, the holder is turned around and the answer becomes visible. We recommend first using only the questions on the lilac side of the cards, and then putting each card back in the box with the yellow side facing forward. Once all the lilac sides have been played, the yellow sides follow. This is to prevent answers to questions that will be played soon afterwards from being visible during the game.
- Number cards: Each team has its own set of cards numbered 1 to 5, and a rack on which to arrange the cards, in consultation with the team, before they are laid on the board.
Questions
The heading indicates what the question is about. The questions themselves are briefly worded and indicate the order in which the answers must be put: large → small (= from large to small), many → few (= from many to few), left → right (= from left to right), chronological, etc. Chronological means that the event that happened longest ago must come first and the one that happened most recently must come last.
The answer is given by putting the numbers in that order, e.g. 3, 1, 4, 5, 2. On the back of the card is the correct answer, followed by an explanation with the exact data in brackets. (These exact data do not have to be given with the answer; they serve only as illustration.)
To see the answer that belongs to the question, the card must always be placed in the card holder.
The number of spaces a team may move forward on the game board depends on the number of numbers that are in the right place.
A simple example
Vowels — Front → back in the alphabet
- O
- A
- I
- U
- E
Answer: 2, 5, 3, 1, 4 (2. 1st, 5. 5th, 3. 9th, 1. 15th, 4. 21st letter)
A team that answers 2, 5, 1, 3, 4 in this case has 3 answers right, because 2, 5 and 4 are in the right place.
Game Board
On the game board there are 2 × 5 spaces on which to lay the 5 cards, 1 row for each team. The red arrows show where to start laying them down. Once the cards have been laid on the board they may no longer be moved (except in the final round on the 5-space). There is also a track for both pawns. This track is divided into 3 colours; a different mini-game is played on each colour. As soon as one of the teams lands on a new colour, the mini-game belonging to that colour is played by both teams.
The team that is first to land on the last space (5-space) and correctly solves the task that goes with it has won.
There are also special star spaces on which something special happens (see 'The spaces').
Start
Each team chooses a playing piece and a die.
Both playing pieces are placed on the start space and the game begins in the way described below under 'purple spaces'.
As soon as a team lands on a differently coloured space, it reads what must be done there by both teams.
The Spaces
Purple spaces
A question card is placed in the holder, visible to everyone, but so that the answers on the back of the holder are not visible to either team.
Both teams read the question. Each team confers among itself and arranges the number cards on its own card rack.
Then both teams each lay their row of 5 numbered cards on the game board with the number side down, in the order they think is correct, starting at the arrow. When both are ready, the card holder is turned around and the answers become visible. Then the laid-down number cards are turned over. A correct answer = a number card that lies in the right place.
The teams may each move forward as many spaces as their own number of correct answers. This can therefore be 0, 1, 2, 3 or 5 spaces (4 correct is not possible, because then you also have 5 correct).
The next card is placed in the holder, etc.
Orange spaces
A question card is placed in the holder, visible to everyone. Both teams read the question.
They arrange their number cards and predict how many answers they think they will have right.
They do this by laying down the die, with that number on top, visible to the other team. Both teams then again lay their row of number cards on the board with the number side down. When both are ready, the card holder is turned around and the answers become visible.
Then the number cards are turned over. A correct answer = a number card that lies in the right place.
Whoever has fewer answers right than their own die shows earns nothing. Whoever has the predicted number of answers, or more than their own die showed, right moves forward the predicted number of spaces.
Pink spaces
A question card is placed in the holder, visible to everyone. Both teams lay their die down covered on the number they think they can answer correctly (so 1, 2, 3 or 5). Then they reveal their bids at the same time.
Whoever has made the highest bid plays. If the bids are equal, the teams bid again, until one has the highest bid.
The team that plays lays the number cards down face up in the order they think is correct.
Then the card holder is turned around and it is checked how many answers are correct. If the number of correct answers is equal to or higher than the bid, the team may move forward on the board as many spaces as the bid was.
If the number of correct answers is lower than the bid, the opponent may move forward as many spaces as the bid was.
Star spaces
Whoever lands on this space gets an extra question for that team alone. A question card is again put in the holder, and the team must lay down at least one number card of its choice, e.g. the first or the last because they think they know it for sure. The opponent checks whether this is correct. If so, the playing team has the choice: stop or continue. With 'continue', the team carries on until they want to stop or make a mistake. As soon as a mistake is made, the opponent moves forward on the board as many spaces as the number of cards the team had already laid down.
With 'stop', the team may move forward as many spaces as the number of correctly laid number cards, and the game continues.
If both teams land on a star space at the same time, the team that has progressed furthest on the board plays first.
If the other team moves off its star space because it may move forward due to a mistake by the other team, its "star" turn is forfeited.
If a team standing on a star space makes a mistake, so that the other team may move forward, and that other team thereby also lands on a star space, their star turn is played first.
If both teams land on the same star space at the same time, the die is rolled. The team that rolls highest plays first.
5-space
The team that reaches this space must still answer one last question correctly. (No exact count is needed at the end; the last space is the last space.) A question card is placed in the holder. The team lays the 5 number cards face up on the board in the order they think is correct. The opponents look at the answer and then say how many are wrong (but not which ones, of course!). With that information, the team may then rearrange the cards one more time.
If the row is laid correctly before or after the rearranging, they have won!
If after rearranging they still do not have all 5 answers right, the opponent moves 5 spaces forward and the team standing on the 5-space may immediately try again. As soon as both teams are on the 5-space together, they play a tiebreak consisting of the bidding game of the pink spaces, but with one difference: if the playing team makes its bid, they have won, but if they do not make their bid, the opponents have won!