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HOW TO PLAY - KIDS RULE! - GAME
INSTRUCTIONS
Kids Rule starts a new genre in game
developing and game playing.
This game is the result of a cooperative effort between
University Games,
teachers, parents and children. The questions were
written by parents.
The answers were selected entirely by 8-14 year old children at
The San
Francisco School in San Francisco, California. The
innovative aspect
(and fun element) of Kids Rule is that it combines developmental role-
playing with fun “parenting” questions. This type of
play encourages
players to put themselves in the role of a parent and grapple with
conflicts
that kids and parents have daily.
Look for more San Francisco School labeled games as we continue to
develop this cooperative game system.
FOR PARENTS
Kids Rule is
designed as a starting point for you and your children to discuss
and explore the myriad of issues that they face as children grow-up and
travel from child to adult. You won’t like all the
answers since kids chose
them, not parents-but keep a sense of humor and enjoy a peek at how kids
would raise children if we only gave them a chance.
CONTENTS
·
216 Kids Rule!
Question Cards
·
Game Board
·
4 Playing
Pieces
·
Instructions
OBJECT
The first
player to successfully reach the Family Room by answering
questions based on parenting issues wins the game.
SET-UP
Remove
shrink-wrap from Kids Rule question cards, shuffle the two card
decks together and place in the Kids Rule! Card space on the game board.
HOW TO MOVE
· Numbers:
Each Kids Rule question card has a number printed in the upper
right hand corner (1, 2, or 3), these numbers represent the number of
spaces
the player moves if he/she picks the most popular answer to the
question.
· Action
spaces:
Players landing on spaces mentioning a room in the house
must move immediately to that room, then wait until their next turn
before
answering another Kids Rule question.
· Room
spaces on the game board (Girl’s Room, Guest Room, Boy’s Room,
Parent’s Room, Kitchen, Garage, Laundry Room, and Bathroom) are
considered as one space.
· Players
may move along the game board in any direction, but only in one
direction on each turn.
· Players
must move the number of spaces indicated on the card, if he/she
gets the correct answer. He/she cannot avoid moving.
If he/she answers
the question incorrectly, the player does not move and his/her turn is
over.
PLAY THE GAME
· Each
player picks a colored playing piece and places his/her playing piece
on the appropriate corner room (Girl’s Room, Guest Room, Boy’s Room,
and Parent’s Room). For example, if you are the host
and a girl you can
start in the Girl’s Room. If you are a guest and a
boy, you can start in
either the Boy’s Room or the Guest Room.
· One
or more players can start in the same room.
· The
youngest player goes first (Player 1). The player to
the right of
Player 1 is the Reader (Player 2). Game play moves
counter-clockwise.
· The
Reader picks up a question card and reads the question and three
multiple-choice answers. Remember, the Reader only
reads the question
and answers to Player 1, not the number of spaces he/she will move if
the
question is correctly answered.
·
If Player 1
chooses the most popular answer, the Reader tells the player
the number of spaces he/she can move. Player 1 moves
the number of
spaces and his/her turn is over and game play moves counter-clockwise.
The Reader discards the used card to the side of the game board
and starts
a card pile.
·
If Player 1
does not choose the most popular answer to the question,
he/she does not move and his/her turn is over. The
Reader discards the
used card to the side of the game board and starts a card pile.
· The
Reader in the first round becomes the person to answer the question
in the next round and the player to the Reader’s right becomes the
new Reader.
· If
a player lands on space on the game board that sends him/her to another
room or tells them to move forward or backward or lose a turn, that
player
follows the direction of the space and then his/her turn is over.
WINNING THE GAME
The first
player to reach the Family Room wins the game.
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