Grabble
Grabble Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
How to Play
We're better at showing than telling: watch our video to learn how to play, then come back for any "Wait, how does that work again?" moments.
Video: cmyk.games/grabble
Setup
Put the open box in the middle of the table within reach of everyone.
Make sure all the pieces inside are well mixed and the huge pawn is standing up in the middle.
Give everyone a cup and put the rest off to the side.
3-2-1 GRABBLE!
On the count of 3-2-1-GO, everyone reaches their hand into the box and takes pieces as quick as they can, and puts them in their cup. You can only use one hand and have to take one piece at a time.
[Illustration: three hands reaching into the open box, one hand holding a piece over the box.]
If pieces fall out of your cup, that's OK! Just put them back in.
Once someone has a full or overflowing cup, they grab the huge pawn from the box, put it in front of themself, and count down 5-4-3-2-1-STOP.
Sometime during that countdown, players need to stop taking pieces and slap the table. The last person to slap the table has to give one piece of theirs to whoever has the huge pawn. And if there are any pieces on the table after the countdown, they go back into the box.
Showdown
Everyone dumps their pieces onto the table and hides them behind their off hand.
Starting with the player with the huge pawn and going clockwise, that player picks one of their pieces, calls out its name, and tosses it back in the box. Everyone else has to toss the same type of piece back in the box. Little and big sizes count as the same.
If you don't have any of that piece, you're out!
The next player in clockwise order does the same thing: picks a piece they have, calls it out, and tosses it into the box. Everyone still in the showdown has to do the same, or they're out.
Keep going around the table in clockwise order like this until someone calls out a piece that no one has left. They win!
Fiddly Details
If more than one player doesn't slap, they each have to give over a piece.
In rare cases, the player calling out the piece has no pieces left. If that's the case, they're out! The showdown continues with the next person in order.
Contents
- 16 bananas
- 16 hogs
- 16 letters "g"
- 8 little guys
- 8 big guys
- 8 little dice
- 8 big dice
- 8 little cones
- 8 big cones
- 1 huge pawn
- 6 cups