Red Carpet Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Setup
• Gameplay
  • 1. The arrival of a limousine
  • 2. Actions
  • 3. Take a photo
• End of the Game
• Summary of the Game

Components

• 2 boards (red carpet and awards)
• 100 photographer cards
• 12 limousine cards
• 10 nominee cards
• 4 player aid cards
• 10 celebrity cards
• 22 figures (10 celebrities and 12 entourage)
• 30 figure stands
• 4 billboards
• 6 award markers
• 4 tripods
• 10 Sponsor logo tokens
• 1 first player marker
• 1 lifetime achievement token
• 20 scoring markers (5 of each color)

During the game, you will need to use your mobile phone to take pictures.

Setup

1. Place the boards in the middle of the table, with the awards board (with spaces for the journalists' votes) at one end of the red carpet. The limousines will arrive at the other end of the red carpet.
2. Randomly stand up the billboards on the corresponding stands between the red carpet and the press areas.

The limousines area:

3. Set all of the figures on the corresponding stands.
4. Shuffle the celebrity cards and place them in a stack, face down.
5. Shuffle the limousine cards and place them in a stack, face down.
6. Shuffle the photographer cards and place them in a stack, face down.

The awards area:

7. Shuffle the ten nominee cards and deal them out face up into three columns of three cards each and place the one remaining card next to them. Each column represents the nominees for a single prize, while the final single card is the winner of a lifetime achievement award.
8. Shuffle the sponsor logo tokens and randomly assign one to each of the nominees.

Each player:

9. Chooses a color and takes 5 score markers, 1 tripod, and 1 player aid card.
10. Have their mobile phone in reach with the camera app open.
11. Give the first player marker to the last player to be given an award of any kind.

Gameplay

Red Carpet is played over five rounds. Each round is made up of three phases:

1. The arrival of a limousine
2. Actions
3. Take a picture

1. The arrival of a limousine

When each limousine arrives, the first six spaces of the red carpet will be filled with new arrivals. They include celebrities that everyone is focused on, accompanied by their entourage (for the most part unknowns). To carry out this phase, follow these steps:

Clear the carpet

If there are already figures in any of these six spaces, move them one or two spaces towards the awards area as needed so they leave those spaces free for the newly arriving figures from the limousine. This may cause other figures to also move towards the awards area to make space — each space can only hold one figure at a time. If any celebrity figure reaches the awards area and leaves the red carpet, it is removed from the game. If an entourage person leaves, they are returned to the limousine area and can be reused later.

Draw and reveal a limousine card, placing it face up so it is in contact with the red carpet.

Draw and reveal two celebrity cards. Take the two celebrity figures that are shown on those cards and place them in the middle of the spaces indicated in the first two columns of the limousine card — the first card drawn corresponds to number 1 and the second card drawn to number 2. Turn the figures so that they are looking in the directions indicated by the arrow on the limousine card. Fill the remaining four spaces with four entourage figures and turn them in the directions indicated by the limousine card.

2. Actions

The celebrities get out of their cars and photographers immediately start screaming for their attention so the stars will turn to face them and they can get the best angles for their pictures.

The main part of the round takes place during this phase.

You will proceed as follows: at the start of this phase, each player receives five photographer cards, which they place in their hand. Starting with the player who has the first player token and going clockwise, each player takes turns playing one card, using any of the three available actions: Vote for a celebrity, Get a spot right behind the cordon, or Move people (as explained below).

1. Vote for a celebrity

As representatives of your newspapers, you get to cast votes for your favorite nominees to win this year's awards. Play your card face down on top of the voting cards space on the awards board to add a vote for the celebrity portrayed on that card. At the end of the game, all voting cards will be revealed and the winners of each category will be discovered.

2. Get a spot right behind the cordon

Place your tripod anywhere in either of the two spaces in the press area that match the number on your card. You cannot place your tripod in a space that is already occupied. Your tripod must be fully inside the space you have chosen. If you want to take any pictures today, make sure to pick a space at least during the first round.

3. Move people

There are three ways to do that, as shown on the card you play:

Move a person forward. Choose any figure on the carpet and move them one space towards the awards area. If the destination space already contains a figure, then that figure is pushed along and also moves one space forward (and so on and so forth). It is possible that this movement will cause a figure to reach the awards area. If it is a celebrity, they are removed from the game. If instead it is an entourage person, they are returned to the limousine area.

Call for someone's attention. You can only carry out this action if your tripod is in a space right behind the cordon. Choose a figure and move them closer to the side of the red carpet that your tripod is on. To do this, you will move the figure to the side without moving them towards the awards area and without changing the direction they are facing. If the destination space already has a figure in it, the two figures switch places.

Turn 180°. You can turn any figure completely around (180°) so they face the opposite direction.

3. Take a photo

When you press the button, the shutter clicks, and the flash pops — a one-of-a-kind instant in time is captured forever.

All of the players now take a photograph of the celebrity of their choice at the same time. You cannot take a picture of a celebrity you have already photographed in a previous round.

In order to take a picture:

1. Open the camera app on your mobile phone.
2. Set your zoom to 2x. On most phones, this is done by pressing your finger on the lower part of your screen for a few seconds, just above the options menu where the shutter button is located. This will bring up the zoom options.

Place your mobile phone vertically in your tripod so that it focuses on the red carpet and it is leaning on the front side of the tripod. You may slightly rotate the tripod so you are framing figures that are not perpendicular to you, but your tripod must not be moved out of the place that it is in. You may also slightly change the angle of your mobile phone if the case or any other elements get in the way of the figures' faces.

Take the picture with your phone and show it to the other players. The following criteria are evaluated for your score:

Looking at you, kid — You get 3 points if the celebrity is facing you.

Close-up — You get 2 points if the celebrity appears in a close-up with nothing obstructing the view of their head and shoulders and no other figures in front of them.

Front and center — You get 2 points if the celebrity is in the same row as your tripod.

Entourage — Subtract 1 point for each entourage figure whose face is clearly or partially showing in the picture.

Advertising — Add 1 point for each sponsor logo matching the one placed on that celebrity. The logo must be clearly visible in your picture.

Once the points have been added up, place your scoring marker on that celebrity's card, in the space matching the number of points your picture is worth.

After all players have taken their pictures and scored them, the round ends. When you reach the end of the fifth round, it triggers the end of the game. Otherwise, pass the first player marker to the next player to the left and move on to the next round.

End of the Game

Once 5 rounds have been played, the final scoring for the game is done. At this point, all the voting cards that have been placed face down in the awards area are revealed.

The votes that each nominee has received are added up and the celebrity in each category who received the most votes is the winner for that category. If there is a tie, all of the tied nominees are considered winners. Place an award token on top of the person or people who have won the award.

Each player now gets points for each celebrity depending on the position of their score marker on that celebrity's card:

• Celebrities who received awards in the 3 categories and the lifetime achievement award winner give players double points — multiply the number under their marker by two.
• The rest of the nominees simply give players the points indicated by the number under their marker.

Whoever has earned the most points wins. If there is a tie, whoever has the most points from winning celebrities wins the game. If there is still a tie after that, then the victory is shared among the tied players.

Summary of the Game

You will play 5 rounds. Each round is broken down into the following phases:

1. The arrival of a limousine

• Clear the carpet
• Draw and reveal a limousine card
• Draw and reveal two celebrity cards

2. Actions

Each player receives 5 photographer cards. Then in player order everybody will play a card from their hand to perform one of the following actions:

• Vote for a celebrity — Place the card face down on the voting cards space of the awards board.
• Get a spot right behind the cordon — Place your tripod in one of the two indicated spaces.
• Move people — move a person forward, call for someone's attention, or turn 180°.

Players will play three cards each. Then everyone will discard one of their leftover cards and place the other one on the voting space.

3. Take a picture

• Scoring

End of the Game

All votes will be revealed at the end of the fifth round in order to determine the winner or winners in each of the categories. Each player will score each celebrity according to the position of their scoring markers on each of the cards, doubling the score for the winners of each category and for the lifetime achievement.

The winner will be the player who achieved the highest number of points.

You will play like this three times. As soon as all players only have two cards on hand, they will discard one and place the other one face down on the voting cards space of the awards board.