Bonjour Simone
Bonjour Simone Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Players, Age and Duration
- Players: 2 to 10 (the game also works with 11)
- Age: 6 to 106 years and a half
- Duration: 10 to 15 minutes
Greetings
The following greetings must be used by all the players when one of these cards is turned over:
- Sakari (l'Esquimaude, the Inuit woman): touch the tip of your nose.
- Tanka (l'Indienne, the Native American woman): say "ugh" and raise your hand.
- Chamze (la Népalaise, the Nepalese woman): say "namasté" and join your hands in front of you.
- Simone (la Française, the French woman): say "Bonjour Simone".
Other Cards and Actions
- Fly card (carte mouche): hit the cards in the middle (the pile in the centre of the table).
- Do nothing (ne rien faire): the sheet shows this label beside four round illustrated tokens. The printed rules text does not explain them further.
Goal of the Game
Be the first player to get rid of all your cards.
Setup
Deal all the cards. The players do not look at their cards. Each player places their cards in a face-down pile in front of them.
Playing a Round
The youngest player starts. They take the top card of their pile, turn it over, and place it in the middle.
Caution! The card must be turned so that its printed face is toward the centre of the table, so that all the players see the illustration at the same time.
If the turned-over card shows a character, all the players greet her (as shown on the first page). If everyone has greeted correctly without a mistake, the next player immediately places a card on the pile, and so on.
Player Reactions
A player who makes a mistake takes the pile when they:
- greet the wrong way for the character shown;
- greet too late;
- hesitate;
- greet or hit the pile when there is no reason to do so; or
- are the last to hit the pile when a fly card appears.
When this happens, that player takes all the cards already placed in the middle, places them under their own pile, and relaunches the game.
End of the Round
The round ends as soon as a player has placed their last card. That player scores 1 point.
Long Game
When a player has no cards left, they keep taking part in the game by greeting as usual. If they make a mistake (or are the last to hit the pile on a fly card), they recover the cards already placed in the middle.
The round ends when only one player still has cards in their possession. That player scores 1 penalty point. After several rounds, the winner is the player with the lowest score.
Level 2
Do you master the game well? Speed up the rhythm, or move on to Level 2:
- Turn over two cards at the same time, so that both images are clearly visible. Greet twice in a row where applicable (in the order of your choice).
- If a character and a fly appear at the same time, greet and hit the pile. The last player to hit the pile takes half of the cards outright, and the other half goes to the player who greeted least well.
- If two flies appear at the same time, hit with both hands. The last hand to hit determines who takes the cards.
You can also mix this game with Bonjour Robert.