Animal Upon Animal: Small and Yet Great!
Animal Upon Animal: Small and Yet Great! Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Idea
You build an animal pyramid. One by one you try to stack your animals on top of each other, without any of them falling off. The die indicates how many animals can be stacked, where and who shall stack them.
The aim of the game is to be the first to stack all your animals on the animal pyramid.
Contents
13 animals (2 of each: kangaroo, frog, duck, hedgehog, butterfly, polar bear and 1 crocodile), 1 die with symbols, Set of game instructions
Preparation of the Game
It is best to play on a flat surface. Take the crocodile and place it between the two players. It is the first animal of the pyramid. Distribute the remaining animals so that each player has one of each of the animals in front of him. Get the die ready.
How to Play
Play in a clockwise direction. Whoever can roar the loudest and most like a bear may start and rolls the die.
What Appears on the Die?
- A dot — Take an animal from your provision and place it carefully anywhere on the pyramid.
- Two dots — Take two animals from your provision and pile them carefully one after the other, with one hand, onto the pyramid.
- The hand — Choose any of your animals and give it to another player who now has to pile the animal carefully on the pyramid.
- The question mark — The other player now determines which of your animals you have to pile.
- The crocodile — Take an animal from your provision and put it next to the mouth or tail of the crocodile so that both animals touch. Thus you enlarge the surface used for piling animals. From now on you can stack any new animal onto the one you have just added.
You can only add one animal to each side of the crocodile. If these positions are occupied no further animals can be added. But you can try to stack an animal on top of the pyramid.
Collapse of the Animal Pyramid!
Oh dear! Your stacking attempt ends immediately.
- If in the process of stacking, one or several of the animals fall off, you have to take back one or a maximum of two animals. If more than two animals have fallen off, they are placed back in the box.
- If the whole pyramid collapses, you have to take two of the animals that have fallen off. The rest are placed back in the box. Again place the crocodile between you.
Then it's the turn of the next player.
Important Animal Upon Animal Rules
- You can only use one hand for piling.
- If more than two animals fall off, the player takes two of them and puts the rest back in the game box.
- Has the entire pyramid collapsed? The player has to take two animals. The crocodile is put back in the center and all remaining animals are returned to the box.
- All animals fall off the pyramid without anybody intervening? In this case all the animals that have fallen off are placed back in the box.
End of the Game
The game ends as soon as a player is left without animals. He wins and is elected best animal stacker of the day.