Perfect Shot
Perfect Shot Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Overview and Goal of the Game
On your turn, choose one of two actions:
- Take a new album. or
- Take a photograph by placing one of your landscape cards into the photo frame.
Landscape cards show beasts, birds or even a yeti. In the game all of them are called animals.
A player places a landscape in the photo frame so that animals partly or fully appear in the lenses (the holes in the landscape cards). The player may take the matching photo tokens and place them on their album cards. Each photo token is worth 1 victory point at the end of the game. If you arrange photos according to an album's bonus condition, you receive additional victory points.
You can take a perfect shot if an animal appears in a lens completely, and earn additional victory points for it.
As for the yeti, he is so fast that only half of his body ever appears in a photograph. You will have to join two photos of halves together to prove to the whole world that the yeti really exists, and of course earn even more victory points.
Components
- 104 photo tokens
- Photo frame
- 40 landscape cards
- First player token
- 8 perfect shot tokens
- 34 album cards
Setup
- Place the photo frame in the center of the table. You may stand it separately or place it in the bottom of the game box.
- Shuffle the landscape cards and deal 3 cards to each player. The cards in each player's hand must be visible only to that player. Place the remaining landscape cards face down in a pile next to the photo frame. In a 4-player game use all landscape cards. In a 3-player game randomly remove 10 landscape cards from the game, and in a 2-player game remove 20.
- Shuffle the album cards and place them in a face-down pile next to the landscape cards. Reveal the top 2 album cards and place them next to the pile face up.
- Sort the photo tokens into 3 piles according to habitat: ice, mountains and jungle.
- Shuffle the photo tokens showing the yeti and stack them face down (yeti silhouette side up).
- Stack the perfect shot tokens.
- Give the first player token to the player who most recently took a photograph. Now you are ready to play!
IMPORTANT: do not show your landscape cards to other players; keep them face down on the table.
Gameplay
On your turn you must do one of two actions: TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH or TAKE AN ALBUM.
Take a Photograph
Place a landscape card from your hand into the photo frame. If there are already landscape cards in the frame, the new one is placed on top. You may place your landscape with either side up, even upside down. You may not hold the landscape up to the frame to estimate your chances; you must decide from a distance. As soon as you have placed your landscape in the frame, you may no longer move or touch it.
For each animal (the yeti counts as an animal) fully or partly visible in the holes of your landscape card (the camera lenses), take from the general supply the photo tokens of the corresponding animals and place them in front of you. If the animal is a yeti, take the top yeti-silhouette token and turn it face up (see Yeti).
If several animals appear (fully or partly) in one lens, take 1 token for each visible animal.
Example: one lens shows a tiger and the other an elephant, great job! The player takes 1 tiger photo token and 1 elephant photo token.
Example: in this case the player takes 3 photo tokens: tiger, elephant and eagle.
At the end of your turn, take one new landscape from the landscape pile into your hand and pass the turn to the player on your left.
Sometimes you will get good shots, sometimes not so good; don't worry! Wildlife photographers often have to sit in ambush for a long time for a single perfect shot!
Take an Album
If you do not want to take a photograph on your turn, choose one of the two face-up albums, or take the top album card from the pile. Place the chosen album face up in front of you.
If you took one of the face-up albums, immediately place a new album face up from the top of the album pile in its place.
Perfect Shot!
During the game each participant has 2 attempts to take a perfect shot: a picture of an animal that appears in a lens completely.
On your turn, before placing the landscape in the photo frame, announce that you are making a perfect shot, and place the landscape according to the usual rules.
If at least one animal is fully visible in any of the lenses, take 1 perfect shot token in addition to all the photo tokens you are due, and place it in front of you on its green star side up. This token gives you 2 additional victory points at the end of the game.
If no animal fully appears in a lens, take 1 perfect shot token anyway, but place it in front of you on its other side (0 victory points).
Example: on his turn a player decided to risk it and announced that he would take a perfect shot. Great job! The walrus is fully visible in the lens! The player takes a perfect shot token in addition to the walrus photo token and places it in front of him green star side up.
NOTE: each player may announce a perfect shot only 2 times during the entire game! Try to use them at the most suitable moments! Each attempt can earn only 1 perfect shot token, even if you managed to capture several animals fully in the frame.
Yeti!
When you take a yeti photo token, turn it face up and place it in front of you. Amazingly, each token shows only the right or the left half of the yeti.
A yeti half photo token counts in an album like any other photo token, except that it is not associated with any habitat (ice, mountains or jungle).
At scoring you receive 1 additional victory point for each completed yeti, if you managed to assemble it from 2 halves. A yeti is complete when the left-half and right-half yeti photo tokens are in the same album next to each other and in the correct order.
(Illustrations: in one album the yeti is complete; in another album the yeti is not complete.)
Order in the Albums
At any moment of the game, even before the final scoring, you may arrange and rearrange the photo tokens in your albums as you like. Each album can have 2, 3 or 4 slots, each of which holds 1 photo token.
Each album can earn bonus victory points at the end of the game. To do so, the album must be filled completely (a token in every slot) and all photographs must match that album's bonus condition.
Bonus conditions:
- All animals of the same species.
- All animals of different species.
- All animals of a specified species (in the example, walruses).
- All animals from a specified habitat (in the example, jungle).
IMPORTANT!
- Any photo can be placed in an album, even if it does not match the album's bonus condition.
- The yeti does not belong to any specific habitat.
- Since the yeti counts as an animal, the "all animals of the same species" bonus condition is fulfilled if the album holds 4 yeti photos (any halves). Likewise, the "all animals of different species" bonus condition is fulfilled if a yeti (any half) is among the different animals.
End of the Game
If at the end of a player's turn the landscape deck has run out, keep playing until the turn comes to the player with the first player token (so all players have taken the same number of turns). After that, all players take 1 more turn each and the game ends. Time to count victory points!
The player with the most victory points is declared the best travelling photographer and wins the game. In case of a tie, the player with the most yeti photo tokens (any halves) in their albums wins. If the tie remains, all contenders win.
Each player scores:
- 1 point for each photo token in their albums, even if the album is not completely filled.
- 2 points for each successful perfect shot.
- 1 point for each completed yeti in an album (left and right half tokens in the same album, next to each other and in the correct order).
- 1, 2 or 3 bonus points for each album card whose bonus condition is fulfilled.
IMPORTANT: photo tokens not placed in albums score no points.
Scoring Examples
Example 1: This player gets 8 points for 8 photo tokens in his albums. 2 tokens are not in albums, so they score nothing. The player also has 1 perfect shot token, which gives 2 victory points. The 1st and 3rd albums are completely filled and their bonus conditions are fulfilled, so they give 4 additional points (bonuses of 2 and 2). In total the player has 14 victory points.
Example 2: This player gets 10 points for 10 photo tokens in his albums. The 1st album is completely filled and its bonus condition is fulfilled, so it gives 3 additional points. The 2nd album is filled but its bonus condition is not fulfilled, and the 3rd album is not filled. The 2nd and 3rd albums give no additional victory points. The completed yeti in the first album gives 1 additional point. In total the player has 14 victory points.