Große kleine Edelsteine
Große kleine Edelsteine Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Material
(Setup shown for 4 players.)
- 63 cards
- 12 magnifying glass pieces
- 1 royal crown
- 1 card board
- 4 player boards
- 81 gems
- 1 bag for storing the gems
Before the first game, carefully punch out all pieces from the punchboards.
Object of the Game
The cards show the gems you are looking for for the royal crown. Can you recognise them in the pile of gems even though the gems lie face down? Look closely, as they are sometimes very similar in shape and above all in size, and make your choice in each of the six rounds. At the end of each round it becomes clear whether you had a good eye, picked the right stones and won valuable victory points.
Setup
Before you start playing, place the card board in the middle.
Shuffle all 63 cards face down. The cards have three different back colours: pink, blue and green. Take 6 pink, 6 blue and 6 green cards of your choice from the card stack and place them face down on the corresponding spaces of the card board (pink cards on the pink space, blue cards on the blue space and green cards on the green space).
Place the remaining cards face down as a separate stack next to the play area.
Shuffle all gems face down on the table and then distribute them, still face down, around the card board so that you can all reach them easily.
Each player takes a player board of their choice and places it in front of them. It does not matter which side of your player board you use. Simply place it with the side facing you that you like better.
Finally, make the magnifying glass pieces and the royal crown ready.
Let's Go!
The game lasts 6 rounds. Each round proceeds in the same way:
Turn over the top card on each of the three spaces of the card board and place it face up on its respective stack. The great gem search begins, and all of you are now in demand at the same time. Look at the three gem pictures on the revealed cards. These are exactly the gems you must find. Compare the shape and size of the face-down gems lying out with the gems pictured on the cards. Choose 3 stones that you believe match the stones on the cards and place them, still face down (looking at them is strictly forbidden!), on your player board.
Exception: In a 4-player game, you each choose only 2 gems. That is, you decide on two of the three revealed gem pictures for which you want to look for the matching gems.
Attention! You may not place the gems on or next to the cards to compare them. However, you may still exchange stones you have taken, as long as not everyone has yet taken their last stone.
As soon as you all have 3 gems (2 gems in a 4-player game) on your player board, it gets exciting, because now it becomes clear whether your choice is right.
Round Scoring
First look at the card on the pink space of the card board. Then simultaneously turn over the stone on your player board that you chose for this card. Now compare your stone with the stone on the card. The symbol in the middle of your stone tells you how well you guessed.
A small hint: each gem exists exactly once in the game.
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Your stone has the same shape and exactly the same symbol as the stone on the card? Congratulations! You found exactly the gem you were looking for. Take the corresponding card and place it face down in front of you. The card gives you victory points at the end of the game.
Example 1: Card won. Lisa turns over the turquoise gem with the spider that she previously chose and placed on her player board. This is exactly the gem shown on the card. She receives the card and places it face down in front of her.
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Your stone has the same shape and shows one of the two symbols shown at the bottom edge of the card? Well done! Your stone is not exactly the right one, but only a tiny bit smaller or larger than the one you were looking for (the left symbol stands for the smaller stone, the right one for the larger stone). As a reward for your good eye, you may take a magnifying glass piece and place it on the magnifying glass on your player board.
Example 2: Magnifying glass piece won. Franz turns over the turquoise gem with the moon. Since the moon can be seen at the bottom right of the card, he takes a magnifying glass piece and places it on the magnifying glass on his player board.
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Your stone has the wrong shape or shows no symbol that is shown on the card? Too bad! Unfortunately you missed this time and go away empty-handed.
Now all of you put your scored gem back face down into the middle of the table with the other gems.
Score the face-up cards on the green and the blue space of the card board in the same way.
Cards that nobody won, because nobody found exactly the right gem, are removed from the game.
After the third card has been scored, the first round is over and a new round begins. Turn over the top three cards again and continue playing as described above.
Magnifying Glass Pieces
Whenever during the game you win your third magnifying glass piece and can complete a magnifying glass, put all three magnifying glass pieces back into the supply. In return you may take the top card from the face-down card stack next to the play area. Look at it and place it face down in front of you. At the end, the card counts like the other cards you have won for the final victory point scoring.
End of the Game and Scoring
The gem search ends after the sixth round. There are now also no more cards on the spaces of the card board.
Who wins the royal crown?
Turn over all the cards you won during the game and add up the stars on them. The stars are your victory points.
If you still have exactly two magnifying glass pieces on your player board, you receive one extra victory point for them. To do so, turn over the two magnifying glass pieces and put them together to form a star. Whoever has the most points at the end wins and receives the royal crown as the prize. In case of a tie, you share the victory.
Example scoring: cards showing stars are added together, plus one star from two magnifying glass pieces = 7 victory points.
A Final Note
If you would like to play a somewhat shorter game, or perhaps a somewhat longer one, you can of course always play with more or fewer than 6 cards. The only important thing is that there are always the same number of cards on each of the three spaces.