Elephants on Parade
Elephants on Parade Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
- 8 large elephants in 6 colors
- 24 small elephants in 6 colors
- 4 parade places
- 2 color dice
Goal of the Game
Be the first to line up an elephant family in the correct color order on your own parade place.
Before You Begin
Each player chooses a parade place and places it in front of them. On it you see a jungle landscape and, in the middle, two large and six small fields in bright colors. Place the elephants of the matching color on these fields: the parent elephants go on the large fields at the start of the parade place, and the child elephants go on the small fields behind them.
Place the color dice ready and mix all the elephants together in the middle of the table.
The player who most recently visited the zoo may start.
Off Goes the Colorful Parade!
The starting player rolls both dice at the same time. Everyone looks at the same time to see which two colors are showing.
In the first round, compare the dice colors with the first large color field on your parade place. Does one of the two dice colors match this field? Then everyone who has a matching color field may take a large elephant of that color from the middle of the table and place it on the first color field.
Example: The dice show red and green. You check whether the first color field on your parade place is red or green. If you are lucky and it is one of these colors, you may place a red or green elephant on it, matching the color of the field.
If the field has a different color, you may not place an elephant on it in this round.
Then the next player takes their turn and rolls both dice.
If an elephant is already standing on your parade place, compare the dice colors with the next free color field. If one of the two dice colors matches the color of that field, you may place an elephant of the matching color on it.
If the field has a different color, you may not place an elephant on it in this round.
Then the next player takes their turn and rolls both dice.
All elephants that you line up one after another in a row hang their trunks into the tail of the elephant in front of them.
So the elephant parade gets longer and longer.
The winner is the player who is first to set up their elephant parade and occupy all the color fields on their own parade place.
Variant for Younger Children
In this game, the player whose turn it is rolls one die. Look at your parade places. Each of you who finds the field matching the die's color anywhere on your parade place may place an elephant on it.
If you find two fields in the matching color, decide on one of them and place a matching elephant on it.
Here too, the parent elephants stand on the large fields and the child elephants on the small fields. If the elephants stand one behind another, they hang their trunks into each other as in the first variant.
The winner is the player who is first to set up the parade of their elephant family.