White Rabbit
White Rabbit Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 1 octagonal game board
- 25 rabbit cards
- 1 wooden rabbit (game piece)
- 1 die
- 1 rulebook
For 2–4 children aged 5–12.
Goal of the Game
Each player tries to collect a rabbit family, consisting of Father Rabbit, Mother Rabbit and 4 Rabbit Children. The first player to have a complete rabbit family together is the winner. But it is not that simple, because there is also Max Mümmelmann in the game.
Setup
First, the board is placed in the middle of the table, and the wooden rabbit (game piece) is placed on the space with the red dot.
Next, the Max Mümmelmann card is separated from the rabbit cards. This is the white rabbit with the carrot between its teeth. This card is set aside for the moment. The remaining 24 cards are shuffled well and placed face down around the board, so that next to each of the 8 sides of the board there is a small pile of 3 face-down cards. Finally, the Max Mümmelmann card is placed face down on top of one of the 8 card piles.
And now you can start "losgemümmelt" (mümmelling away)!
Rules of Play
The player with the biggest ears begins. If you cannot agree, the youngest player starts.
Play proceeds clockwise.
The player whose turn it is rolls the die and then moves the wooden rabbit around the board by as many spaces as the die shows. Die points may not be forfeited. The rabbit is the game piece for everyone. It may move either clockwise or counterclockwise, but it may not change direction during a move.
Whoever rolls a "6" may roll again and move again.
After each roll and the following turn, the rabbit comes to a stop on one of the 8 spaces of the board. The player who has just moved the rabbit to a stop may now take the top card from the card pile lying next to the space on which the rabbit stands.
With these cards the rabbit families are formed. To win, one needs each card value once:
- Father Rabbit: 6 points
- Mother Rabbit: 5 points
- Rabbit Children: 4 points down to 1 point
Only a player who holds these six cards can form a complete rabbit family. The different colors of the rabbits have no significance here. What matters is that each player may hold each card value only once.
If the card just drawn is a value the player still needs for his rabbit family, he keeps it and lays it face up on the table in front of him. If the player already has this card value, he slides the drawn card face down under the card pile.
What Can Max Mümmelmann Do?
The white rabbit has not only a name, Max Mümmelmann, but also a very special significance. Whoever draws the Max Mümmelmann card may take a rabbit card that he still lacks from any other player. As always, Max Mümmelmann means well: he only wants to help the player who has just drawn him. Unfortunately, this happens at the expense of another player, but that is not so bad, since everyone gets caught once in a while!
The Max Mümmelmann card may not be kept. It must immediately be returned to the game by placing it face down on top of any one of the 8 card piles.
In Short
Roll the die, move the rabbit, take a card. Yes, it would be that simple, if there were no Max Mümmelmann!
End of the Game
The game ends when the first player has a complete rabbit family together, with card values 1 to 6.
Possible Disputes
Max Mümmelmann causes enough commotion. Therefore, the following questions are settled here, questions that may arise during play.
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May a player take a rabbit card with a value he already has? No. One may take only cards one does not yet have.
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What does a player do who has drawn Max Mümmelmann, but finds no rabbit card he still needs among the other players' cards? He comes away empty-handed. Here too the rule applies: one may not have a rabbit card of the same value twice.
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How must the players lay out their collected cards? Face up and next to one another, so that everyone can see which cards the others already have.
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May the direction be changed during a move with the wooden rabbit? No. One moves the full distance either clockwise or counterclockwise.
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Must the cards be collected in a particular order? No. The main thing is to get them, in whatever order.
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What happens if the rabbit is moved onto a space next to which no card lies any more? Then one is unlucky. In this case the player receives no card. As compensation he may NOT roll again.
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Must one collect one's rabbit family in a single color? No. The rabbit family may be mixed in color. However, if a player manages to collect all rabbits of one color, he may call himself "Oberhase" (Head Rabbit) and hop once around the game table.