Rules - Out of the Box Publishing

Barn Card
What’s in the Box
96 Animal Cards (8 cards for each of 12 animals)
12 Barn Cards (1 for each animal)
Animal Cards
Setting Up
1.
Adjust the Animal Card deck based on the number of players:
Number of Players:
Sets of Animal Cards to Remove:
A set is all 8 cards of one animal
2.
3.
4.
5.
8
0
7
1
6
2
5
3
4
4
3
5
Deal out the Animal Cards so that each player has the same number. Any reamining cards
are not used in this game.
The 12 Barn Cards are mixed up, animal side down, and each player randomly takes one.
All players flip over their Barn Card to reveal their animal. Select one player to be the start
player and in clockwise order, each player makes the sound of his or her animal.
All players flip their Barn Cards back over so that the animals are hidden. Animals will
remain hidden for the rest of the game.
Quack-a-Doodle-Moo can be played with younger players by simply leaving the Barn Cards
face up. For mixed ages and abilities, novice players’ animals stay hidden, face down, while
experienced players’ animals are revealed, face up.
Playing the Game
1.
Each player picks up his or her Animal Cards and holds them face down in one hand.
2.
Beginning with the start player and moving clockwise around the table, each player takes a
turn flipping the top card from the cards in his or her hand to create a stack in front of that
player.
Cards must be flipped outward so that the card is revealed to all players at the same time.
Each player's stack of cards on the table must be clearly visible to all players.
3.
Play continues with each player playing one Animal Card on top of the stack in front of him
or her until an Animal Card is played that matches an Animal Card already on top of
another player’s stack.
4.
When a match occurs, the two players with matching cards race to make the sound of the
hidden animal from the other player’s Barn Card.
5.
6.
7.
The first of the two players involved in the match to
make the sound of the other player’s hidden animal
wins that match.
If a player makes the sound of the wrong animal, he or
she may continuing making animal sounds. There is no
penalty for making the sound of the wrong animal.
The player who wins the match gives all the cards
from the stack in front of him or her–not the cards in
hand–to the other player involved in the match. That
player takes those cards and his or her own Animal
Card stack and adds both stacks of cards, face down,
to the bottom of the pile in his or her hand.
Play resumes with the player to the left of the last
person to play an Animal Card. All other cards on the
table remain where they were and play continues
clockwise.
Example: Player 1, who has a pig on his Barn Card,
plays an owl card to his stack. Player 4, who has a duck
on her Barn Card, already has an owl card on top of her
stack. Since their cards match, Player 1 races to say
“Quack!” before Player 4 says “Oink!”
Player 1
(Pig)
Player 4
(Duck)
Winning the Game
The first player to play all of the cards from his or her hand wins!
Notes:
1.
Once play begins, a player is not required to reveal his or her animal — even if other players
ask, but my look at his or her own animal at any time.
2.
During a match, players may use any animal sound which identifies the animal in the barn. For
example, a dog could be identified by “woof,” “bow-wow,” or “arf.”
3.
If a player is playing the last card from his or her cards in-hand and it results in a match, that
player must win that match in order to win the game.
The Advanced “Switch-er-Moo” Variation
Add another level of crazy, confusion to your game!
1.
At the beginning of the game pick a Barn Card that matches one of the animals in the Animal
Card deck (an animal that was not removed) and place it, animal-side up, in the center of the
table.
2.
Whenever a match occurs where the matching animals also match the animal in the middle,
the match resolves normally (as in step 4 of playing the game) and then all players pass their
Barn Cards to the left so that each player has a new hidden animal!
Players may look at their new hidden Animal, but must try to remember the other players’ animals.
3.
Play continues as in the regular game with the players passing their Barn Cards to the left every
time there is a match that also matches the animal in the center. The first player out of cards
wins!
Original Concept Chris Childs and Tony Richardson
Game Play Design Team Al Waller and Max Winter Osterhaus
Illustration John Kovalic
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