Herd Mentality
Herd Mentality Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Object
The aim of the game is to be the first player to collect eight cows. Do this by thinking like the herd and writing down the same answer as everyone else.
Setting Up
Build the paddock, round up the Cow Tokens and the Pink Cow, then put them inside. Choose one player to be the Question Wrangler. As well as playing the game, they read the Question Cards and hand out the cows. Now get ready to think like the herd!
Cow Tokens
You can only win one cow per round. Use the 3-cow tokens to stop the bank from running out of 1-cow tokens!
Reading rules is udderly ridiculous — watch how to play instead. Search "How to play Herd Mentality" on YouTube.
Play
The Question Wrangler starts by reading out a card. Each player (including the Question Wrangler) writes down an answer in secret on their answer sheet. When everyone's ready, reveal the answers one by one, starting with the Question Wrangler.
NOTE: If someone is taking too long thinking of an answer, everyone else is allowed to "moo" at them until they hurry up.
Winning Cows
When all the answers have been revealed, count them up to find out which was the most common. If your answer was part of the majority, collect one cow as a reward. Congratulations, your herd just got a tiny bit bigger.
The Pink Cow
If you were the only player who wrote an answer that didn't match with anyone else's, then you're the odd one out. For your punishment, you must add the Pink Cow to your herd. The only way to get rid of the Pink Cow is for another player to be the odd one out in a later round. While you're holding the Pink Cow, you can keep collecting cows but you can't win the game. The first player to collect eight cows in their herd is the winner. Yeehaw!
Examples
Example: Clear Majority — Question: "Name a very cold country." Player 1: canada. Player 2: canada. Player 3: russia. Player 4: canada. Players 1, 2 and 4 each win a cow. Player 3 was the odd one out and adds the Pink Cow to their herd.
Example: No Clear Loser — Question: "Name a food that you don't have to chew." Player 1: soup. Player 2: yogurt. Player 3: soup. Player 4: yogurt. Players 1 and 3 both wrote "Soup". Players 2 and 4 both wrote "Yogurt". This is a majority tie, which means no one wins a cow token.
Example: Split Majority — Question: "What's your favorite coin under a dollar?" Player 1: dime. Player 2: nickel. Player 3: dime. Player 4: quarter. Players 1 and 3 both said "Dime" and formed the majority. They each win a cow. Players 2 and 4 weren't part of the majority, so they get nothing. However, since more than one of them gave an unmatched answer, they both avoid the Pink Cow.
Tiebreaker
If more than one person reaches eight cows in the same round, the target becomes nine cows. This keeps going until a player is one cow in the lead. This player is the winner!
DIY Rounds
Feel free to come up with your own questions and test them out with the group. If you think you've got a winner, send it over to us at [email protected]. If we like the sound of it, we'll put it in the next version and send you a free copy!
Contents
- 160 question cards
- 62 cow tokens
- 2 answer pads
- 1 squeezy pink cow
- 1 cow paddock
- 1 instruction sheet
- 1 potato sticker
Credits
Herd Mentality ©2020 Dan Penn and Rich Coombes. Herd Mentality is designed and published by Big Potato Games, 1 Holywell Lane, London, EC2A 3ET, UK.
Imported and distributed under license by Spin Master International, B.V. Spin Master Ltd., 225 King Street West, Toronto, ON, M5V 3M2 Canada.