Fruit Cocktail
Fruit Cocktail Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Goal of the Game
The players collect fruit in order to obtain more victory points than their opponents.
The victory point value of each type of fruit is not known when the game starts and is determined during the game.
Setting Up
Without looking at the tiles, make a line with the 8 Fruit tiles, placed face down.
Shuffle the Fruit cards.
Below each tile, place 3 cards at random, face up, arranged in a column.
Then turn over 5 tiles of your choice face up (3 remain face down).
- With 2 or 3 players, each secretly looks at a different face-down tile.
- With 4 players, 2 players look at the same face-down tile and the other 2 players look at another.
How to Play
In turn, each player takes any one of the 24 Fruit cards and places it face down in front of them. The last player to have eaten a fruit starts the game.
When there is only one Fruit card left below a Fruit tile in the central zone, this card can no longer be taken. It is placed under the Fruit tile, so that only the value of the card is still visible.
The game ends when there are no more cards to collect.
If there are any fruit tiles left face down, they are turned over at that moment.
In a two-player game, each player will therefore have 8 cards, in a three-player game, each will have 6 cards and in a four-player game, each will have 4.
Scoring
- Each fruit on the players' cards is worth the number of points determined by the last card placed under that fruit in the central zone.
- The player with the highest score wins the game.
- In the event of a tie, a new game is played with a different first player.
Example
Player 1 calculation:
- Banana: X 2 = -8
- Cherry: X 2 = 2
- Apple: X 1 = 4
- Strawberry: X 5 = 5
- Lychee: X 1 = 2
- Grape: X 1 = 3
Player 1 total: 8 victory points.
Player 2 calculation:
- Blueberry: X 3 = 9
- Cherry: X 4 = 4
- Lychee: X 3 = 6
- Orange: X 1 = 0
- Grape: X 4 = -8
- Banana: X 1 = -4
Player 2 total: 7 victory points.
Player 1 therefore wins the game with 8 points to 7 points for Player 2.
Alternative Game Modes
- Easy mode: At the start of the game, only two Fruit tiles are left face down and no one looks at them.
- Total Control: All the Fruit tiles are left visible.
List of Cards
Front: the 24 Fruit cards, each showing a point value and one to three pieces of a single type of fruit (point values range from -4 to 5).
Back: the back of every Fruit card shows the same creature illustration.