Jenga: Super Mario Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Set Up
• Character Cards
• Play
  • On Your Turn
  • Stacking and Peg Rules
  • Special Items
• Battling Bowser
• Bowser Bonus
• Winning the Game

Contents

• 45 plastic Jenga blocks
• 1 stacking sleeve
• 4 character pegs
• 4 character cards
• 1 spinner (with plastic arrow and base)
• 1 Bowser figure
• 34 cardboard coins (26 Gold Coins, 8 Five Coins)

Set Up

The first time you play, assemble the spinner by pushing the plastic arrow through the spinner card and snapping the arrow into the base. Punch out the coins from their cardboard frame.

1. Set up the tower. Turn the blocks over so that the Jenga logos are faceup, then mix them up. Randomly place three blocks per layer, alternating direction by layer. Place Bowser at the top of the tower. Use the stacking sleeve if necessary. Place the stacking sleeve where all players can see it.
2. Choose your character peg. Insert your peg anywhere in the second layer at the base of the tower.
3. Take your character's card. As you play, refer to this card when you remove blocks with the following special-item symbols: mushroom, star, POW, question block, and goomba.
4. Each player takes 1 Five Coin (worth 5 coins). Place the rest of the Five Coins and the Gold Coins in a pile next to the tower.

Character Cards

Each character card lists an action for each special-item symbol.

Mario

• Mushroom: Climb 3
• Star: Climb 3 and steal 1 coin from any player
• POW: Steal 2 coins from any player
• Question block: Collect 2 coins
• Goomba: Return 1 coin

Peach

• Mushroom: Move a player down 3
• Star: Steal 2 coins from any player and collect 2 coins
• POW: Steal 1 coin from any player
• Question block: Collect 2 coins
• Goomba: Return 1 coin

Toad

• Mushroom: Climb 4
• Star: Climb 2 and collect 1 coin
• POW: Steal 2 coins from any player
• Question block: Collect 2 coins
• Goomba: Return 1 coin

Luigi

• Mushroom: Climb 3
• Star: Steal 3 coins from any combo of players
• POW: Climb 1 and steal 1 coin from any player
• Question block: Collect 2 coins
• Goomba: Return 1 coin

Play

The youngest player goes first, and play moves to the left.

On Your Turn

1. Spin. The spinner determines four things:

• How many blocks you must remove and stack (0, 1, or 2).
• If you collect 2 coins from the pile.
• How many layers your character must climb (0, 1, 2, 3, or 4).
• If play continues in the opposite direction after your turn.

Steps 2 and 3 can be performed in any order.

2. Stack. Use one hand to remove a block from anywhere below the highest completed layer. You can touch the blocks to see if any are loose. Make note of any items on the removed block (see Special Items), then stack it above Bowser. (Always complete a layer before starting a new one.) Wait for about 5 seconds.

• If the tower falls, you must return 10 coins to the pile, and the game is over!
• If the tower does not fall, refer to your character card and perform any special-item actions from the block you stacked. Then, if you spun "Stack 2 Blocks," stack your second block and refer to your card again to perform any additional actions.

3. Climb. Move your character peg up to the required layer, and insert it into a hole on any side of the tower. Wait for about 5 seconds.

• If the tower falls, you must return 10 coins to the pile, and the game is over!
• Your character must climb all the required layers at once.
• If your opponents' character pegs are in the only holes you could climb to, don't move your character peg. Carry out the rest of your turn as normal.
• If your spin would take your character peg to the same level as Bowser or higher, insert your peg into any vacant hole on the layer directly below him instead, and end your turn. Then, on your next turn, you'll battle Bowser! (See Battling Bowser.)
• If your character peg reaches the highest layer before anyone else's (it doesn't need to be a completed layer), collect 10 coins! You can then stack blocks as normal, but you can only climb if there are enough layers above you to do so by exact count.

4. End your turn. Once you've stacked blocks (if any), performed any special-item actions, and climbed (if necessary), it's the next player's turn.

Stacking and Peg Rules

• You can't stack a block that an opponent's character peg is in.
• If your own character peg is in the block that you want to stack, either choose a different block to stack or move your peg up before stacking.
• You may knock an opponent's character peg out of a hole while you're removing and stacking a different block. If you do, move their peg down a layer to any vacant hole and steal 1 coin from them!
• Your character peg can't move down lower than the second layer of the tower.

Special Items

Remember to check any removed blocks for items.

• Question block: Collect 2 coins from the pile.
• Goomba: Return 1 coin to the pile.
• Mushroom, star, or POW: Refer to your character card and perform any required actions.

Note: Even if the required action is, for example, "Climb 2," you would still perform Step 3 as well!

Battling Bowser

To defeat Bowser, you must spin "Climb 3" or "Climb 4"; you can't move above Bowser or stack any more blocks until you've done this. Once you've spun "Climb 3" or "Climb 4," move to the layer directly above Bowser and collect a coin bonus for defeating him! (See Bowser Bonus.) Opponents can't move your peg below Bowser after you've defeated him.

Did you spin a coin or REVERSE PLAY while battling Bowser? You can still collect coins, and play will switch direction as normal at the end of your turn!

Bowser Bonus

• First player (to defeat Bowser): collect 5 coins
• Second player: collect 4 coins
• Third player: collect 3 coins
• Fourth player: collect 1 coin

Winning the Game

The player who caused the tower to fall must return 10 coins to the pile. The player with the highest character receives 5 coins. But if that player made the tower fall, the second-highest character collects 5 coins instead. All players then add up their coins. The player with the most coins wins!