Commercial Crazies Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Object Of The Game
• Getting Ready To Play
• Playing The Game
• Moving Your Pawn

Contents

• 1 Game Board
• 10 Sets of Question Cards (20 cards per set)
• 4 Sets of Voting Cards (3 cards per set)
• 16 Stacking Pawns (4 each of 4 colors)
• 1 Sheet of Pressure-Sensitive Labels
• 1 Video Cassette

Object Of The Game

Try to answer crazy questions about the wacky commercial you have just seen to move around the game board and collect colored pawns. The first player to collect one pawn of each color and make it back to the center space on the board wins the game.

Getting Ready To Play

1. Punch out the first set of Question Cards (each set has its own color). You will not need the other 9 sets until you have used up this one. Be sure to keep the cards arranged in numerical order, and place them with the question side down in the middle of the playing area where everyone can reach them. The card with the number 1 on the back should now be on top.

2. Put the game board in the middle of the playing area where everyone can see both the board and the TV screen.

3. In each corner of the game board is a TV screen divided into 3 colored areas and 1 white one. Put one matching-colored pawn on each of the 12 colored areas, leaving the 4 white areas open.

4. Each player takes one of the remaining colored pawns, peels off a pressure-sensitive label and attaches it to his/her pawn (see illustration). These pawns are then put in the center space of the game board to be the "Capping Pawn." Set aside any unused capping pawns after putting labels on them.

5. Each player gets one set of three voting cards with the letters "A", "B", and "C" on them. The color of the cards should match the color of the player's capping pawn.

6. Turn on the TV and VCR, put the tape in the machine and get ready to play.

7. Before playing for the first time, watch the short introductory segment on the tape to learn the game's basic features.

Playing The Game

1. Choose one player to go first. This player takes the first of the question cards while the other players take their voting cards and get ready to watch the first crazy commercial.

2. Start the tape to watch one of Joe Sedelmaier's crazy commercials. At the end of the commercial, an automatic timer will come on the screen, and it is time to play the game.

3. The first few times you play, we recommend that you stop the tape after each commercial so you can take your time learning to play the board game. Once you have played a few rounds and have gotten the feel of the game, however, be sure to leave the tape running while you are playing! You can tell from the countdown on the screen how much time is left before the next commercial starts, and you must finish playing each round in this length of time.

4. When the commercial is over, the player with the question card reads the question and answers on the card out loud to the other players. Each question is multiple choice, and the card shows 2 possible answers and a blank space. The answer marked with a circle is correct, the second one is wrong, and the blank space is for a bluff answer to be made up by the player reading the question. This player knows the question in advance and can try to come up with a bluff while the tape is running. NOTE: If you can't think of a bluff, just read the two answers on the card, although this means you can't move your pawn that round.

5. Once the question and all three answers have been read out loud, the other players use their voting cards to show which of the three answers (A, B, or C) they think is correct. Each player puts the card showing his/her choice face up in front of him/herself. NOTE: Unless otherwise indicated, the words "left" and "right" in the questions refer to the viewer's left or right.

6. The player asking the question does not vote but rather checks the other players' answers against the card.

Moving Your Pawn

1. Starting with the player to the questioner's left, and continuing in a clockwise direction, each player who guesses the right answer moves his/her Capping Pawn from the center of the board to the outer path (follow the pointing fingers). In later rounds, players move one space each time they guess the right answer.

2. Once everyone else who can has moved his/her pawn, the questioner moves one space for each player who voted for the bluff as the correct answer.

3. Players who did not get the answer right cannot move their pawns this round. If nobody votes for the bluff answer in any given round, the questioner will not get to move.

4. At the end of each round, the player to the questioner's left becomes the new questioner. So, players take turns being the questioner, in a clockwise pattern.

5. Any number of players can occupy the same space at the same time.

6. Players must move their pawns around the board in a clockwise direction, following the pointing hands.

7. Any time a player lands on one of the spaces with a hand pointing to the center, he/she can take a shortcut through the center and back out onto the path.

8. When a player lands on a space with the extra pawns on it, he/she takes any one of those pawns as long as it isn't the same color as his/her original piece and stacks it underneath his/her Capping Pawn. Don't take the pawn until you leave the space.

9. You can only collect one pawn of each color.

10. If you are leaving a space with other players on it, you can take any one of the pawns which that player has collected, except for his/her Capping Pawn. You can only take a total of one pawn when you leave any single space, so if more than one other player is still on that space you must choose who to take a pawn from. If there are both extra pawns another player on a space when you move off, you can choose whether to take the extra pawn or one from one of the other players still on that space.

NOTE: If a player collects his/her fourth pawn from another player while in the center space of the game board, he/she immediately wins the game.