Henrys Hennen
Henrys Hennen Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Content
100 cards:
- 23 Hen Heike
- 23 Hen Hilda
- 23 Hen Hedda
- 8 Chick Henry
- 23 Cracked egg
- 1 Fried egg with squeaker
How to set up the game
Place the fried egg in the centre of the table. Shuffle all the cards face down and deal them out to the other players so that everyone ends up with the same number of cards. Put any surplus cards back in the box. Now take your cards as a face-down pile and place them in front of you. The last person to see a chicken begins.
Easy to get started for 2-4 players
Play your first games with a maximum of four players. Also remove the 8 Chick Henry cards from the deck. This way you can concentrate on the other commands and on hitting the fried egg.
How to play
Take it in turns to play clockwise. During the game, a pile of discarded cards is formed around the fried egg for each person, i.e. two piles in a game of two players, three piles in a game of three players and four piles in a game of four players.
When it's your turn, you quickly turn the top card of your pile of cards face up and place it in the centre of your discard pile and, without hesitation, respond to the question: Who has the most eggs? Look at all the cards on display and find the colour that shows the most eggs - because cards of the same colour are added together. Once you have established the biggest number, the following situations may arise.
- All cards show a broken egg. Example: I place down a card with a broken egg. There is already another card with a broken egg. I say: "NOBODY".
- All eggs of the majority colour can be seen on my card. Example: I place down the red card and say: "ME".
- Another card alone has the most eggs in the majority colour. Example: I place down the green card and have 1 egg. Blue has 2 eggs. I say: "YOU".
- The card I have placed down, together with a second (and possibly third) card, has the majority of eggs in one colour. Examples: I place down the blue card with 2 eggs and say: "WE". / I place down the blue card with 1 egg and say: "WE".
- The other cards of the same colour together have the most eggs. (This command is omitted in the two-player game.) Example: I place down the blue card and have 2 eggs. The two green cards together have 6 eggs. I say: "YOU OTHERS".
- If there is a tie for the biggest number, everyone hits the fried egg at the same time - the slowest player receives all the cards already played under their pile and starts the next round. When hitting the fried egg, any mistakes shouted are not counted.
The chicks enter the game!
As long as one or more Henry cards are visible, you have to call out the number of eggs in the majority colour (instead of personal pronouns). When there are no more Henry cards on display, we continue with the usual statements.
- Example: I place down a Henry card. The red card shows 3 eggs, the blue card only 2. I say: "THREE".
- Example: I place down a card with a broken egg. A second card with a broken egg is already on display and Henry can still be seen. I say "ZERO".
Mistakes
Every wrong word, every time the fried egg is hit without thinking and every hesitation of more than three seconds counts as a mistake! If you make a mistake, you have to put all the cards laid out in your own pile and then start a new round.
End of game
If you are the first to play all the cards in your pile, you win the game!
Professional variant "EXACTLY"
Have you already added the 8 Chick Henry cards and are only making very few mistakes? Then try the "Exactly"-rule: The previous statement must not be repeated! Instead, you have to say: "Exactly"! An exact statement may likewise not be repeated - the correct statement then has to be made again.
Example:
- I place down the green card with 1 egg and say: "Me".
- Jimmy plays the blue card with 2 eggs and calls out (instead of "Me"): "EXACTLY".
- Lina plays the red card with 3 eggs and shouts "ME" again.
Chaos variant for 2-6 experienced players
Are you now well acquainted with the rules and need an additional challenge or would you like to play in larger groups? Then try the chaos variant with alternating discard piles. Regardless of the number of players, you place the cards down in turn on exactly 3 discard piles. This means that you always place the cards on a different one of the 3 piles. Exception: In a three-player game, you must play with 4 discard piles.