Fiesta de los Juegos Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• For Players New to Board Games
• For Players Between Experienced and Novice
• Goal of the Game
• Setup
• Phase 1: Draw Your Game
• Phase 2: Make the Games Guessed
  • Write a Word, Colour a Tooth, and Pass to Your Neighbour
  • Receive a Word, Erase It, and Start Again
  • Four Times in All
  • Rule for Writing a Word
• Phase 3: Deduction
  • Arrange the Crânes and the Games
  • Try to Guess Which Game Matches Each Crâne
• Phase 4: Find the Games
  • Check Each Answer
  • Use the Os d'or
  • End of the Game
• Next Levels
  • A Constraint for Each Word
  • List of Contraintes

For Players New to Board Games

If you are discovering the world of board games, it is advised to play with a draw pile composed only of the Jeux cards that have a Fleur jaune (yellow flower) on the card.

For Players Between Experienced and Novice

If you want to keep playing with the Contraintes while introducing the game to new players, it is enough that the new players do not take the Contrainte(s) into account.

Goal of the Game

Fiesta de los Juegos is a cooperative game during which the players must find every board game that was present during the game.

Setup

Each player takes a Crâne slate (skull slate), a Déduction slate (Deduction board) and a dry-erase marker.

Shuffle the Jeu cards and make a face-down draw pile.

Take the Numéro cards matching the number of players and place them to the side. Example: with 5 players, take the Numéro cards 1 to 5.

Take the Os d'or tokens (golden bones) as shown below:

• 4 players: no Os d'or
• 5 players: 1 Os d'or
• 6 players: 2 Os d'or
• 7 players: 3 Os d'or
• 8 players: 4 Os d'or

Phase 1: Draw Your Game

Each player draws a Jeu card, looks at it secretly, and places it in front of them, face down.

Then each player opens their Crâne slate, secretly writes the name of their Jeu inside it, and closes their Crâne.

Warning: from this moment on, and until phase 4 "Find the games", the Crâne slate must never be opened again!

Note: If a player does not know the Jeu they drew, they may discard it and draw another.

Phase 2: Make the Games Guessed

Write a Word, Colour a Tooth, and Pass to Your Neighbour

On the white space of the jaw of the Crâne, each player secretly writes one word (no more!) that makes them think of their Jeu.

Example: Cyril has the Jeu "DIXIT". He writes the word "RÊVE" (dream) on his slate.

When a player has written their word, they colour a Dent (tooth) at the bottom of their Crâne. Then they pass their Crâne to their left-hand neighbour.

Warning: When you pass your Crâne to your neighbour, pass it face down, so that the other players cannot see the word you wrote on it.

Receive a Word, Erase It, and Start Again

Each player takes the Crâne that was passed to them, reads the word written in the jaw, erases it, and writes another word in its place. This other word must make them think of the word they have just erased.

Example: Marjolaine reads "RÊVE". She erases that word and writes "DORMIR" (to sleep).

Again, when a player has written their word, they colour a Dent at the bottom of the Crâne, and pass the Crâne to their left-hand neighbour.

Important: It is not about trying to guess which Jeu it is, but simply writing a word that makes one think of the word just received.

Four Times in All

You will receive a Crâne again and do the same: erase a word, write another word, colour a Dent, and pass the Crâne... Repeat this operation until all four Dents of each Crâne have been coloured (so each player will have written four words).

When a player has coloured the fourth Dent of a Crâne, they place that Crâne face down in the centre of the table (so the last word they wrote is not yet visible).

When all players have placed their Crâne in the centre of the table, move on to phase 3 "Déduction" (Deduction).

Rule for Writing a Word

It is forbidden to write the name of a jeu de société (board game). Example: during the game, a player may not write "Monopoly".

Note: It is also forbidden to write a word already present on the Jeu card, or a translation of a word already present on the Jeu card (for the first word).

Note: It is forbidden to write a word from the same root as the word you received (for the following words).

Note: You may write only one word, no more; but compound words linked by a hyphen are allowed.

Phase 3: Deduction

Arrange the Crânes and the Games

1. Place the Numéro cards in a row in the centre of the table. Collect all the Crânes, face down.
2. Shuffle the Crânes face down, then place each Crâne, face up, beneath a Numéro card.
3. Without looking at them, collect each player's Jeu card and add to them, face down, cards from the draw pile until there are 8 Jeux. Shuffle the 8 Jeu cards, then place them face up beneath the Crânes.

Note: With 8 players, no Jeu card is added.

Example with 6 players: the six Crânes are placed beneath the numbers 1 to 6, and the 8 Jeu cards are placed beneath them.

Try to Guess Which Game Matches Each Crâne

The players must now try to find the Jeu that corresponds to the last word written on each Crâne.

When they think they have found a Jeu, they write the name of the Jeu on their Déduction slate, next to the number of the corresponding Crâne.

Tip: Work by association of ideas, and try to remember the words you erased during the round; this may sometimes help you.

Warning: During this deduction phase, it is forbidden to communicate with the other players.

Once each player has noted their deductions, move on to phase 4 "Find the Games".

Phase 4: Find the Games

Check Each Answer

Open the first Crâne, then compare the name of the Jeu written inside it with the answer of each player.

For each correct answer from a player, tick one box of the strip inside the Crâne, starting with the box matching the number of players, then continuing to the right.

Example: with 6 players, start with the box under the number 6. Five correct answers are therefore enough to find a Jeu.

If the game is not found: if you have not ticked all the white boxes from the starting box, leave the Crâne open. It will take a while before you know whether the game has been found.

If the game is found: if you succeed in ticking all the white boxes from the starting box, close the Crâne. The game is found!

Use the Os d'or

In a Crâne, if you also manage to tick the extra yellow box (which means that all players gave the right answer), you win an Os d'or. Place it to the side, with any you already have.

Once you have checked all the Crânes, use your Os d'or. For each Os d'or you possess, you may tick one white box of a Crâne that has not been found, in order to close it.

Note: You may use several Os d'or on the same Crâne.

Example: you are 6 players. For Crâne number 1, there are three correct answers: two boxes are therefore missing to find the game. You may use two Os d'or to close the Crâne and find the game.

End of the Game

The game is now over. The more games you have found, the more successful the festival will be, since the games will be back in their place! The number of closed Crânes tells you how well you did.

Can you find all the games? Buena suerte, and long live the Fiesta de los Juegos!

Next Levels

A Constraint for Each Word

Fiesta de los Juegos offers several difficulty levels. If your games seem too simple, move on to the next level. You will see, the games have some surprises in store!

Setup: Set up the game as for a normal game, then take the Contrainte cards, shuffle them, and make a face-down draw pile.

Note: When starting a new game, if you have Os d'or left over from the previous game, discard them. Take only the Os d'or matching the number of players (see page 1).

• Level 1: Reveal 1 Contrainte card at the start of the game. The first word each player writes must respect this Contrainte. The following words are free.
• Level 2: Reveal 2 Contrainte cards at the start of the game. The first word each player writes must respect the first Contrainte; the second word must respect the second Contrainte. The following words are free.
• Level 3: Reveal 3 Contrainte cards at the start of the game. The first word each player writes must respect the first Contrainte; the second word must respect the second Contrainte; the third word must respect the third Contrainte. The next word is free.

List of Contraintes

• C...: The word each player writes must begin with the letter "C". The player might write, for example: Cabane, Cruel, Cacher...
• TIENT DANS UNE BOÎTE DE JEU (fits in a game box): The word each player writes must be able to fit inside a game box. The player might write, for example: Pion, Fourchette, Pomme...
• RIME EN A (rhymes in "A"): The word each player writes must rhyme in "A". The player might write, for example: Chat, Repas, Combat...