Whac-A-Mole
Whac-A-Mole Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Object
Win all the cards!
Contents
36 Mole Cards, 1 Whac-A-Tile
Set Up
Place the Whac-A-Tile in the middle of the playing area so that each player can reach it easily.
Shuffle the mole cards, then deal all of the cards, facedown, to players. Players do not look at these cards.
How to Play
The youngest player goes first.
The first player flips up one card from their card stack so that everyone can see the colored mole on its face. Each player, one after the other, does the same. These face-up cards in front of each player are called MOLE PILES.
But keep an eye out – if the colors of two DIFFERENT players' moles match, THOSE PLAYERS race to see who can smack the Whac-A-Tile first!
Whichever player is first to hit the Whac-A-Tile gets to collect BOTH the mole piles and puts these cards back into the bottom of their own stack of cards.
Always look for Wild Moles. ANYTIME a Wild Mole shows up, ANYONE can hit the Whac-A-Tile fast and collect ALL of the mole piles from the other players!
Wild Mole Card (illustration on the card face).
Play continues until one player has collected everybody else's mole piles and is declared King of the Molehill!
Note: Players have to flip up the cards AWAY from them. This way, everyone sees the moles on the card at the same time.
In the unlikely event that there are no more matches available between the players left in the game, players should count all the moles they own. The player with the most moles wins.
Advanced Play
All players flip over their cards at the same time.
If a player hits the Whac-A-Tile when they're not supposed to, two cards are removed from their stack of cards and those cards are out of the game.
Alternative Play
For a shorter game, play with fewer cards.