The Little Prince: Make Me a Planet
The Little Prince: Make Me a Planet Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Set Up
Shuffle the 4 stacks of tiles separately and place the 4 stacks face down in the middle of the table.
The four stacks are: Planet Center, Uphill edge, Downhill edge, Character.
If there are only 4 players, remove four tiles from each stack without looking at them. If there are just 3 or 2 players, remove eight tiles from each stack. These tiles will not be used in the game. Put them aside, again without looking at them!
That's all! You can now start the game!
Playing the Game
There are 16 rounds in a game. The youngest player is the Start Player.
- The Start Player chooses one of the 4 stacks and takes as many tiles as the number of players, e.g. in a 4-player game, the Start Player takes 4 tiles.
- These tiles are placed face-up on the table, so that everyone can see them properly.
- Then the Start Player chooses one face-up tile and places it in front of him to start building his planet.
- Now the Start Player appoints a different player to choose another tile from those that the Start Player had revealed.
- This new player takes the tile and starts building her own planet in front of her. Then she appoints another player, and so on, until every player gets a tile.
The last player must take the only tile that is left. To make up for that, this player becomes the Start Player for the next round. Play continues with Step 1 above, as the new round begins.
The game goes on until each player has in front of them a whole planet made up of 16 tiles laid out in a 4x4 square shape.
Building Rules
- Each planet is made up of 16 tiles: 4 Centers, 4 Edges of each of the two types, and 4 Characters. No more, no less.
- The 16 tiles must be in a 4x4 square-shape, forming a round planet, with the 4 Character tiles at the corners of the square.
- The planets can be built in any order: e.g., during the first 4 rounds, a player can place the 4 Characters (the corners).
- While your planet is being built, the planet pieces don't have to be joined together: during the game, there can be gaps between the tiles in a player's planet. They will be filled by the end of the game.
- A player is allowed to have more than one Character of the same type.
Beware of the Baobab Trees!
On some tiles, Baobab trees are growing. Too many Baobabs are bad!
If a player's planet has no more than 1 or 2 Baobab trees, everything is all right. However, if a third Baobab tree is added, all 3 of the player's Baobab tiles would have to be turned face down. The items on those tiles won't score you points at the end of the game!
Once these 3 tiles are turned over, the player can now place new Baobab trees; but if the planet gets another 3 Baobab trees, the player will have to turn over the 3 new tiles, as well.
Beware of the Volcanoes!
The player who has the highest number of Volcanoes at the end of the game suffers a penalty by losing as many points as the number of Volcanoes on the planet.
If there is a tie between players, all of them suffer the penalty.
The player who has the highest score is congratulated by the Little Prince and wins the game. In case of a tie, the winner is the player with the smaller number of Volcanoes. If the planets of the tied players have the same number of Volcanoes, these players share the victory.
End of the Game
The game ends when all the players have finished building their planets.
Now, each player adds up how many points have been scored by the four Characters around that player's planet (you can use the score track on the back of the box).
If a player has more than one Character of the same type, each one will score.
Characters
The Vain Man scores 4 points per Snake.
The Geographer scores 1 point for each tile of the planet with no Volcano. Tiles turned face down because of Baobabs count as tiles with no Volcano. Character tiles do not count as tiles for the Geographer.
The Astronomer scores 2 points per Sunset.
The King scores 14 points if there is only 1 Rose on the planet, 7 points if there are exactly 2 Roses on the planet, and no points if there are three or more Roses on the planet.
The Lamplighter scores 1 point per Lamppost.
The Hunter scores 3 points for each species of animal (Fox, Elephant, Snake and Sheep) present on the planet. Having one of the 3 types of Sheep is enough to score the 3 points for the Sheep species...
The Drunkard scores 3 points for each tile that has been flipped because of Baobab trees.
The Businessman scores either 2, 3, or 5 points for each individual Sheep of the colour shown on his tile (white, grey or brown).
The Gardener scores 7 points per Baobab tree. (Note: there cannot be more than 2 Baobab trees on a planet.)
The Turkish Astronomer scores 1 point for each Large Star. All the Large Stars count for this scoring, even the ones on Character tiles.
The Little Prince scores 3 points for each type of Sheep (white, grey and brown) and 1 point per Box.
Example of Scoring
Bruno has 14+12+12+7 = 45 points.
- 12 points — Fox, Elephant, Snake and Sheep
- 14 points — 2 Baobab trees
- 12 points — 6 white Sheep
- 7 points — 2 Roses
Antoine has 9+9+13+10 = 41 points.
- 9 points — 9 tiles with no Volcano
- 9 points — 3 face-down tiles
- 13 points — white, grey and brown Sheep
- 10 points — 2 brown Sheep
Bruno has 45 points but his planet has got the highest number of Volcanoes (6 Volcanoes). Thus, his final score is 45-6=39 points. So Antoine wins the game!
"Hidden" Characters Variant
When a player chooses a Character tile, it is kept secret from the other players, unlike the planet tiles, which are placed face up in front of the player. The players don't know which Characters belong to their opponents anymore.
Rules for 2 Players
In a two player game, the game is played as follows:
The youngest player starts. He is Player A.
- Player A chooses one of the 4 stacks and takes 3 tiles.
- He looks at these 3 tiles secretly. He chooses 2 of them and places them face up in the center of the table, while the third tile is placed beside them face down.
- Player B takes one of these 3 tiles (he can choose the face down tile but he cannot look at it beforehand).
- Then Player A takes one of the 2 remaining tiles. The last tile is discarded, face up.
Another round then begins, with Player B choosing from which stack to take 3 tiles, and placing two face up and one face down. Play continues in this way, with the players changing their roles each round, until their planets are finished.
Game Info
2-5 players, ages 8+, 25 minutes.
Designers: Antoine Bauza & Bruno Cathala Artwork: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Layout: Ludonaute Translation: Andrew MacLeod
This game contains 80 tiles and 5 tokens.
The designers wish to thank Françoise Sengissen, Mikaël Bach, Michaël Bertrand, Frédéric Vuillet and Émilie Pautrot.
Warning! Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts.
LPP™ © A. de Saint-Exupéry Estate 2013