Ranagedon
Ranagedon Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 18 frog discs
- 1 container lid (Golden Lily pad)
- 1 help card
- Rulebook
A flat surface is needed to play.
Frogs are identified by their border color (blue, magenta, yellow) or frog color (red, green), as shown on the components page. Frog abilities depend on border or frog color, see Special Abilities.
Preparation
- 2 players: One player takes the 9 green frogs and the other takes the 9 red frogs.
- 3 players: One player takes the 6 blue-bordered frogs, another takes the 6 magenta-bordered frogs, and the last player takes the 6 yellow-bordered frogs.
- 4 players: Two teams of 2 players are formed. Following the distribution and deployment for 2 players.
The Golden Lily Pad is placed in the center of the table and, at a palm's distance, each player deploys their frogs. They can be organized freely, but it is NOT allowed to separate the frogs from each other by more than one disc's distance. Ideally leave a minimum of one finger's distance between frogs so they can jump!
Whoever finished organizing their frogs first begins.
How to Play
In each turn, players make one of their free frogs jump.
A free frog is a frog that is NOT stepping on other frogs and is NOT being stepped on.
To make a frog jump, you must press on the colored border until it jumps.
It is NOT allowed to press outside the colored border.
Standing up is permitted!
If the frog flips over, it returns to the position prior to the jump and that player's turn ends.
If a frog ends up partially or totally off the table, it is placed in the same direction from which it exited but at a finger's distance from the edge, towards the center of the table.
After making one of their frogs jump, it is the next player's turn in clockwise order.
In case of playing in teams (4 players), each member plays a turn alternately.
Scoring
There are two ways to earn points: stepping on enemy frogs or with the Lily Pad bonus.
Stepping on Enemy Frogs
"Stepping" means remaining in a superior position within a stack, without having frogs on top. If a frog is situated on top of others, it is considered to step on all frogs at a lower level, even if it has no direct contact with them. A stack is understood as when a frog is on top of another frog, on top of another frog, etc.
Example: this frog steps on the other 3.
Only frogs that are NOT being stepped on (that have no frogs on top) score. These frogs grant 1 point for each enemy frog underneath in their stack; your own frogs do NOT count.
The rulebook's stacking diagrams show these printed values: a three-frog stack marked +1, +1 and 2 POINTS; a three-frog stack marked 0, +1 and 1 POINT; and a larger stack marked +1, 0, +1, 2 POINTS and 1 POINT.
Lily Pad Bonus
Frogs that end the game completely inside the Lily Pad add 2 points. These frogs DO NOT lose their points if they are stepped on.
Frogs that end the game partially stepping on the lily pad add 1 point. But they are vulnerable to losing their point if another frog steps on them.
The rulebook's Lily Pad diagrams show these printed values: a frog completely inside the Lily Pad marked 2 POINTS; a frog partially on the Lily Pad marked 1 POINT; and a stacked arrangement on the Lily Pad marked 0 POINTS, +1, 2 POINTS and +1.
End of the Game
If at the start of their turn a player has NO free frogs, the game ends immediately.
Each player's points are counted. Whoever has the most points wins.
In case of a tie, whoever has the most free frogs is the winner; if the tie persists, the victory is shared.
Special Abilities
Frogs have abilities according to their border color or frog color, depending on the number of players.
Transcriber's note: the rulebook's ability headers show the player-count icons as pictograms; the 2-player and 4-player assignments below are read from those icons, since the page prints no words for them.
Double Jump
2 players: magenta-bordered frogs. 4 players: red frogs.
If after jumping, the frog remains free, it can perform another jump.
Diving
2 players: blue-bordered frogs. 4 players: green frogs.
First you can hit the frog so it slides, ignoring the colored borders. If it did NOT touch anything, it can perform a jump immediately.
Poisonous
2 players: yellow-bordered frogs.
Whenever a non-poisonous frog steps onto a poisonous frog (yellow border), it returns to where it was before jumping and loses its turn. Poisonous frogs can step on any frog and score normally.