Happy Hopping
Happy Hopping Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Components
- 1 meadow game board
- 32 plastic frogs (8 each pink, blue, yellow, orange)
- 4 wooden hopping sticks
- 4 lily pads
- 36 mosquito cards
- 32 game round goal cards (8 per player)
- 4 scoring tiles
- 8 ladybug tokens
Game Setup
- Place the box bottom, including the tray, in the center of the play area. Place the meadow game board on top of the tray.
- Each player chooses a color, taking all 8 frogs and the lily pad in that color and placing them in front of the matching side of the frog meadow.
- Each of you has their own area in front of them, from which you jump your frogs. Put the lily pad in your area and place your frogs next to it. Don't forget to take a wooden hopping stick if you like!
- Shuffle all the mosquito cards and place them as a face down deck at the edge of the playing area. Place the face down scoring tiles and the ladybug chips next to them.
- Sort the game round goal cards by their back sides into 8 stacks. Place these stacks face down off to one side of the playing area.
How to Play
Everyone plays simultaneously. Each game will include Regular and Speed rounds.
Start of a round: Each take 1 game round goal in your player color from the 1st pile. So, everyone will have the same goal each round. Set the game round goal in front of you so that the arrow points towards the box.
On the start signal "Happy Hopping!" you all let your frogs jump from your water lily at the same time. You may move your water lily within your area. Whoever wants to, uses the hopping stick. With a little luck, the frog will hop to the right place and help you reach the round's goal! If your frog lands in your own area, let it hop again.
Note: You are not allowed to let foreign frogs jump. Once your own frogs have hopped out of your area, you may not let your own frogs jump in that round either.
Regular Round
Let your frogs jump. Whoever is the first to run out of frogs shouts "Ribbit!" loudly. The other players keep playing until all frogs have hopped. Then the round ends. The player who shouted "Ribbit!" gets to collect 1 ladybug token.
Speed Round
Let your frogs jump. Whoever is the first to achieve this round's goal shouts "Stop!" This ends the round for everyone immediately. The player who shouted "Stop!" and correctly acomplished the current round goal gets to collect 1 ladybug token.
The winner takes 2 mosquito cards and everyone else takes 1 mosquito card. In case of a tie, the tied players each take 1 mosquito card and all others do not get a card.
After the round is over, retrieve your frogs from the ponds (or wherever they may have landed) and return them next to your lily pad. Set aside the previous game round cards and each take your new game round goal from the next stack.
Game Round Goals
A frog counts toward the round goal if at least half of it is in the right place at the end of the round. Frogs that land on their backs also count.
All Frogs in Your Own Pond
Make your frogs hop only into your own pond. At the end of the round, count all frogs in your own pond. Frogs on the meadow do not count. The player with the most frogs in their pond is the winner of this round.
Please note - do not use this goal if you are playing with only 3 players!
The Fewest Frogs in Your Own Pond
Make your frogs hop only into other players' ponds. At the end of the round, count all frogs in your own pond. Frogs on the meadow do not count. The player with the fewest frogs in their pond is the winner of this round.
The Most Frogs in Any Ponds
Make your frogs hop into any pond. At the end of the round, count all of your frogs in all ponds. Frogs on the meadow do not count. The player with the most total frogs in ponds is the winner of this round.
No Peeking! The Most Frogs in Any Ponds
Keep your eyes closed when you make your frogs hop toward the ponds. At the end of the round, count all of your frogs in all ponds. Frogs on the meadow do not count. The player with the most total frogs in ponds is the winner of this round.
The Most Frogs on the Meadow
Make your frogs hop onto the meadow. At the end of the round, only count your own frogs on the meadow. Frogs in ponds do not count. The player with the most of their frogs on the meadow is the winner of this round.
1 Frog in Each Pond
Make your frogs hop so that at least 1 of them lands into each pond. Once there is at least 1 of your frogs in each pond, shout "Stop!" loudly. The first player to call out "Stop!" and correctly acomplished the game round goal wins this round.
First Frog in the Center of the Meadow
Try to hop your frogs in the center of the meadow. As soon as one of your frogs lands in the center, shout "Stop!" loudly. The first player to call out "Stop!" and correctly acomplished the game round goal wins this round.
First Frog on Another Player's Lily Pad
Make your frogs hop onto another player's lily pad. As soon as one of your frogs lands on someone else's water lily, shout "Stop!" loudly. The first player to call out "Stop!" and correctly acomplished the game round goal wins this round.
Game End
The game ends after the 8th round or, in a game of three, after the 7th round. Then pick 1 scoring tile at random and turn it over. Now, all of you take a look at your mosquito cards to see how many mosquitoes you have collected in that color.
The player who caught the most mosquitoes of the color shown on the scoring tile is the winner of the game and from now on is called Master-Mosquito-Snatcher!
Example: Scoring tile "Red mosquito". There are 6 red mosquitoes on the player's collected mosquito cards.
Other Awards
- The player who collected the most mosquito cards is now officially a Frog Champion!
- The player who collected the most ladybug tokens, from now on bears the title Turbo Hopper!