Reglamentacja: Gra na Kartki
Reglamentacja: Gra na Kartki Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game elements
- 35 ration stamps
- 20 shopping cards
- 6 announced visit cards
- 1 game board
- 6 wooden pawns
- 5 wooden houses
- 1 wooden spinning top
- 1 die
Preparation for the game
Remove the tablecloth.
- Put the board on the table in a way that allows all players access to it.
- Shuffle the shopping cards and reveal the first six cards. Lay them out in a row behind the counter. Put the rest of the shopping cards in a face down stack near the row of shopping cards.
- Each player receives a pawn and a house in the same color. The Black pawn is reserved for the speculator (a non-player pawn).
- Shuffle the ration stamps and deal each player five cards. Put the remaining cards face down (ration card side up) in a pile behind the store entrance. Keep your cards in hand in such a way to see symbols in the corners.
- Each player draws randomly one announced visit card, examines it and puts it face down in front of him, next to his house. (Note: In a 3-player game, if you do not like surprises, remove all three announced visits with the icon "obiad (meal) x2" and put them back in the box.) Place unused announced visit cards back in the box.
- Randomly select a player to place his pawn on the first place in the queue. Other players place their pawns in clockwise order behind the first one. At the end of the queue, place the black pawn of the speculator.
- The owner of the pawn in the third position in the queue receives the spinning top. He will be the first active player. You are ready to play!
Game objective
The goal is to prepare for the announced visit of your guests. We will each buy shopping cards available in the store with our ration stamps. We can get missing ration stamps by trading with other players. At the end of the game shopping cards are translated into ingenuity points. Each announced visit card allows you to multiply your score. (See scoring example under Scoring.)
Gameplay
Each turn of the game consists of two successive phases: the allocation of ration stamps and shopping.
Allocation of cards
The active player, the one who has the spinning top, does the following:
- The active player takes her or his ration stamps allotment: two cards from the top of the stack. If the stack has been exhausted, take the discarded cards, shuffle them and form a new stack.
- The active player sets the spinning top in motion as best as he can (if necessary, he can try up to three times to get it spinning).
- As long as the spinning top is in motion, the active player can trade his ration stamps with other players or the speculator. Players may also offer their places in the queue.
- When the spinning top sets its edge on the table, the trade ends (the active player can still exchange the cards if the terms of the trade had been agreed before the top stopped). Once all cards or places in line have been exchanged the allocation phase ends. Please note: The active player can stop the spinning top at any time to finish trading.
- At the end of the allocation phase, the active player may not have more than six ration stamps in his hand. If the player has more than six cards, he must discard the excess (this rule applies only to the active player, the other players may have more than six ration stamps in hand).
- The active player passes the spinning top to the player to their left and then the shopping phase begins.
Shopping
In this phase, the owner of the first pawn in the queue may purchase one shopping card. In order to do that the player reveals and discards three cards with matching symbols indicated on chosen shopping card. For example, two flour cards and one sugar are necessary to acquire "sernik (cheesecake)" card. Note: Usually, the player at the counter is not the one who set the spinning top in motion!
The player takes the shopping card that he acquired and puts it face down in front of him. A player can buy only one shopping card. Whether a card is purchased or not, the player moves her or his pawn to the end of the queue and draws one card from the top of the stack of ration cards.
Afterwards the players refill the shopping cards back to six. The player who received the spinning top begins another turn, starting with allocation of cards. Please note: If the players cannot refill the shopping cards back to six, the final turn of the game begins.
Detailed rules
During the active player's turn (when the spinning top is in motion), he may trade cards with other players any number of times. A player can also trade his place in the queue. Inactive players can only initiate a trade with an active player and cannot swap cards with other inactive players.
Example 1
Andrew (active player): I need ration stamps for butter, who has them? Luke: I have them. I need sugar or meat stamps. Andrew: I don't have any, but I can give you a stamp for alcohol. Luke: Great, but I want your place in the queue too...
Example 2
Anne: I will give up a ration stamp for chocolate products. Andrew (active player): What do you want in return? Anne: Any three cards. Andrew: I can give you two butter and one sugar. Anne: I agree.
Trading with the speculator
During his turn, the active player can also trade with the speculator (during the Allocation of cards phase, while the top is spinning). A player can do that in two ways:
a) The player discards any two ration stamps from his hand for one random card drawn from the top of the stack of ration stamps.
b) The player discards any two ration stamps to trade places with the speculator's pawn. Cards passed to the speculator are discarded like spent cards.
The speculator goes to the shop
Once the speculator reaches the first place of the queue, the game pauses for a moment and the speculator goes shopping. One player rolls the dice to find out which card the speculator buys. Starting from the shopping card closest to the board, the player counts which card the speculator will buy. Shopping cards purchased by the speculator are removed from the game and placed back into the box. Then, the speculator pawn is placed at the end of the queue. Fill the shopping cards back to six.
Please note: If there is less than six shopping cards on the table, it is the final round and the speculator does not shop.
Final round and the end of the game
If the row of revealed shopping cards cannot be refilled back to six, the final turn of the game begins. In this very last turn, each player takes three ration stamps, dealt one by one, starting from the active player. If you run out of cards, shuffle the discard pile and create new stack. The active player puts the spinning top in motion. Now all players can trade cards and places in the queue with each other. In the final turn, no one can trade with the speculator. (Remove the speculator's pawn from the queue in order to remind players about this rule.) When the spinning top stops on its own, each player buys one final shopping card. Players make purchases in the order of their pawns in the queue. The speculator does not purchase anything. Finally, each player reveals his shopping cards and sums ingenuity points.
Scoring
At the end of the game each icon on a shopping card (fix-up, meal, cake, event) is worth 1 ingenuity point.
Additionally each player's announced visit card doubles their points for purchases in the two categories indicated on the card.
In case of a tie, the player who has more shopping cards wins. If there is still a tie, the one who has more ration stamps in hand wins. If there is still a tie, all the tied players win.
Example
Vladimir got four shopping cards: "konsumpcja na imieninach (consumption on the name day)" (two events), "krochmalenie poscieli (starching bed sheets)" (two fix-ups), "kotlety mielone (meat balls)" (three meals) and "herbatniki maslane (butter biscuits)" (three cakes). Vladimir has the visitor card "spotkanie z przyjaciolkami (Rendezvous with Friends)," which doubles cake and fix-up purchases.
Thus, Vladimir receives 2 points for "konsumpcja na imieninach", 4 (2x2) points for "krochmalenie poscieli", 3 for "kotlety mielone" and finally 6 (2x3) points for "herbatniki maslane."
Vladimir ends the game with a total score of 15 points.
Card reference
Ration stamps
Sugar, meat, flour, alcohol, butter, soap, chocolate.
Announced visit cards
- Obiad z kierownikiem: Dinner with The Boss
- Odwiedziny pani inzynierowej: Meeting with Mrs Engineer
- Spotkanie z przyjaciolkami: Rendezvous with Friends
- Wizyta tesciowej: Mother-in-Law Pays a Visit
- Imieniny meza: Husband's Name Day
- Zjazd rodzinny: Family Gathering
Shopping cards
Buffet; for landlord's electrician; brownie; cheesecake; name day consumption; something to the coffee; great laundry; sweet yeast cake; butter biscuits; tea sugar; meat balls; home dumplings; a serving for guests; breakfast for children; starching bed sheets; for chimney sweep; meat roulade; three-course meal; birthday cake; for Mr. Henry Handyman.