Battle Fries
Battle Fries Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 54 Fries cards (9 per player)
- 12 Sauce cards
- 30 Graillon cards
- 1 rulebook
Game Setup
Deal the 9 Fries cards of the same color out to each player (see back of card).
Get the Sauce cards ready: put Ketchup and Mayo on their standard side, then add a number of special Sauce cards (selected with the method of your choice) according to the number of players:
- 3 or 4 players: 1 special Sauce
- 5 or 6 players: 2 special Sauces
Set the cards up in a circle in the order of your choice and leave a free area in the center. Place the remaining special Sauces cards back into the box.
Note: For a 3-player game, place an unused special Sauce card face down on top of one of the 3 Sauces (at random). The covered Sauce card is inaccessible. At the end of each round, move the special Sauce card face down onto the next sauce, clockwise.
Shuffle the Graillon cards and place them into a face-down pile. Then place a Graillon card on top of each Sauce card, also face down.
Graillons are the crispy little pieces of fries that are found at the bottom of the bag of fries. They are a great treat.
Game Turn
Simultaneously, players choose a Fries card from their hand, without revealing it. Then, everyone counts to 3, and each player announces (shouts out) at once the name of the chosen Sauce to dip their Fries card into, laying it face up on the announced Sauce.
The Fries
Mayo Fries cards cannot go into the Ketchup and Ketchup Fries cards cannot go into the Mayo.
All Fries cards can go into the special sauces, except the Ketchup and Mayo Fries cards of value 2 marked with the crossed-out Fries symbol, which only go into their respective Sauce.
Resolving the Sauces
The situation on each Sauce is solved as follows: Always start with the Mayo, and then solve the rest of the Sauces clockwise.
There are 3 possible cases
Case 1: If 3 or more players dip their Fries in the same Sauce, the Fries cards played are expelled to the center of the table, face up.
Case 2: If exactly 2 players dip their Fries in the same Sauce, the Fries cards are placed under the Sauce card, face up, so that their value is visible.
Case 3: If a player is the only one to dip his Fries into a Sauce, he wins his Fries card and possibly the Fries cards under the Sauce card. If he only wins his own Fries card, he also wins the Graillon card placed on the Sauce. Afterwards, place a new card, from the Graillon pile, face down.
Finally, if it is a special Sauce, its effect must be applied whenever possible (the effects are presented in greater detail at the end of the rulebook).
The cards won by a player are placed in front of him, face down.
The Fricadelle
The Fricadelle is a wild card and goes in any Sauce. When at least one Fricadelle is played, 2 cases can occur:
Case 4: If only one Fricadelle is dipped in the Sauce, any opposing Fries played during that turn in the same Sauce as the Fricadelle is expelled to the center of the table. Then apply Case 3 for the player who played the Fricadelle.
Case 5: If 2 or more Fricadelles are dipped in the same Sauce, they are expelled to the center of the table. Then resolve the Sauce using Cases 1, 2 and 3, as if the Fricadelles had not been played.
If anything goes wrong (the announced Sauce is not the one the Fries card is sent in, a Mayo Fries is sent in the Ketchup, or vice versa, one player plays his card after the others, or any other such irregular situation) the concerned player's Fries or Fricadelle is expelled to the center of the table. Then resolve the situation as if it had not been played.
End of the Game
After 9 rounds, the game is over. Players add up the points on their won Fries and Graillon cards. The player with the most points wins!
In case of a tie, the player with the most Graillons wins (because the Graillons are always the tastiest anyway!).
The printed end-of-game page includes a scoring illustration (groups of Fries cards with their values summed, shown as 7 and 6 for a total of 13). It is an image and is not reproduced here.
The Sauces
Base Sauces
- Mayo
- Ketchup
Special Sauces
Special sauces have additional bonuses if the player is in Case 3.
Cocktail: Randomly take a Fries card won by another player, or win a Fries card of your choice expelled to the center of the table.
Brasil: All players (including you) pass their won Fries cards to their right or left neighbor (you choose for all the players). This effect does not apply to the Graillon cards.
Samurai: Select a Fries card at random from a player's hand. The player reveals it and must play it on the next turn.
Américaine: Choose 2 expelled Fries cards from the center of the table. Win one, and choose another player to win the other.
Pita: Randomly steal a Fries card from the person on your left and the person on your right.
Andalouse: Randomly steal a Graillon card from two different players of your choice.
Pepper: Draw 3 Graillon cards and look at them. Win one, choose another player to win one, and put the last one back on top of the Graillon pile.
Dallas: Push your luck! Draw a Graillon Card:
- If its value is 1, you can draw a new one and repeat the process, OR, not draw any more and win all the Graillon cards accumulated through this effect.
- If its value is 2 or 3, you lose all the Graillon cards drawn with this effect. These are shuffled into the Graillon Card pile.
Mammouth: Win an expelled Fries card in the center of the table, and then place the rest of the expelled Fries cards, one at a time, under the Sauce cards, starting with the Mayo.
Curry: Select a Fries card from the hand of a player of your choice. Indicate a value (0/1/2/3) and then the player reveals that card. If the value matches what you have revealed, draw a Graillon card.
Alternatives
For the experienced players that you are (or will be), here is a Super version of Ketchup and Mayo Sauces. To include them in your game, flip over the Ketchup or Mayo card, and apply these rules in Case 3 (as a Special Sauce):
Super Mayo: Gain all the Mayo Fries cards played this round (so they are no longer considered played). Then resolve the remaining Sauces as if those Fries cards had not been played.
Super Ketchup: Win all the Ketchup Fries cards under the Sauce cards.
Note that we advise you to use only one Super Sauce at a time, but after all, it's your game so do as you please ;)
More Sauce!
When setting up, place another Special Sauce card under each Special Sauce card, face down. Each time the Sauce bonus is resolved (Case 3), flip both cards over so that the Sauce that was underneath is now visible. This way, the bonuses offered in your games will be more diverse!
More Choice!
During setup and throughout the game, place the Graillon cards on top of the Sauce face up.
During the resolution, the player in Case 3 can choose to take the Graillon card instead of the Fries cards placed under the Sauce.
Loyalty Card
Printed footnote (marked *): "Checkboxes next to the Sauces." The printed card shows checkboxes beside the Special Sauce names; the rulebook does not describe them further.
In Game
- More fat, more fun: Win more Graillons than Fries.
- Mayo Side: Win only Mayo Fries.
- It's good but we don't know what's in it: Win all the Fricadelles.
- The big pack: Win the game with at least 50 points.
- I don't like Fries: Won zero points.
- Double Baking: Win two games in a row.
- Sauce for your life!: Playing with all the Sauces. *
In Real Life
- IRL: Play a game of Battle Fries with real Fries, Fricadelles, Sauces and Graillons.
- The craving: Playing Battle Fries after a game of The Belgian Beers Race.
- The sauce on the side: Taste all the Battle Fries sauces in real life. *
- Dinnertime!: Play Battle Fries in a Fries shop, bar, while drinking a beer.
- The more the merrier: Play a game of Battle Fries with 3, 4, 5 and 6 players.
- It's a gift: Give a box of Battle Fries to your favorite Fries shop seller.
- Influencer: Post a picture of Battle Fries and a real bag of Fries on social networks!