Karolinchen Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Setup
• Playing the Game
  • All the dice are gone? Time to eat!
• Example Round
• End of the Game

Components

• 6 worm figures (6 worm pictures and 6 stands)
• 42 cards (7 coloured cards for each of the 6 worms)
• 6 coloured dice

Component diagram labels: worm figure, worm head, worm tail side, fruit side.

Setup

1. Choose one worm and the 7 cards of the matching colour. Among them, find the worm's tail and the worm's head. Place the worm's head in front of you so that the laurel wreath is not visible. Turn the tail card to its fruit side and place it next to the worm's head. Place the remaining 5 cards in a stack beside them, fruit side up.
2. Assemble the worm figure and place it on the card showing the worm's head.
3. The eldest player then rolls all the dice in the middle of the table.

Now everything is ready for the dinner party!

Playing the Game

The youngest worm begins. Players then take turns clockwise.

On your turn, check whether the dice lying in the middle of the table show the colour of the fruit you have laid out. There are two possibilities:

• Yes, the matching colours are in the middle. In this case you do not roll. Instead, place those dice on the fruits of your card, starting from the bottom of the card and moving upward without skipping any. Always place the dice in front of your worm figure, toward the centre of the table. Your turn then ends.

  Example: Sofia takes the 3 red dice and places them on the first three cherries on her card. The dice of other colours remain for the next player.

• No, the matching colours are not in the middle. In this case you roll all the dice that are in the middle.

  • If the required colours come up, place those dice on your fruits. Your turn is over.
  • If after the roll none of the dice shows the colour of your fruits, you take no dice. Your turn is over.

Important! Dice you did not take always remain in the middle for the next players.

If you have covered all the fruits on a card with dice, immediately choose a new card from your remaining fruit cards. Place it next to the card you just filled. If dice of the colours you need are in the middle, you may take them on the same turn and place them on the new card.

Example: Kolya places the orange die on his last apricot and immediately lays out a new card. He chooses the gooseberry, because it lets him immediately place two green dice from the middle on that card.

Your turn ends when no dice remain in the middle that you can place on your card.

All the dice are gone? Time to eat!

If no dice remain in the middle, you "find fruit". Now each worm "eats" its fruit dice:

• Place your worm figure on the spot of the last die.
• Then return all the dice to the middle of the table.

Worms grow: turn over the cards in front of your worm's head whose fruits have been eaten, and connect them to the worm's head in the appropriate way. In this way your worm grows by one segment.

The next player in turn then rolls all 6 dice again to place the dice of matching colours on their fruits. If no required colours come up, that player's turn is over. The dice stay on the table for the next player.

Example Round

1. Petya rolls the dice. He now takes all 3 green dice and places them on the gooseberry in front of his worm's head. His turn ends.
2. Lena is glad she can place the blue die on the blueberry. The blueberry card is now full, so she adds new fruits. She chooses the yellow plum, because it lets her immediately place a yellow die on the first fruit.
3. The blue die does not match Kolya's apricot. He rolls again: red came up. Bad luck!
4. Sofia is pleased that she can now place the red die on her card with cherries.
5. Now all the dice have been taken, and eating begins. Petya's worm moves forward 3 gooseberries.
6. Lena's worm eats two fruits. Its figure reaches the yellow plums, so she turns over the card with the eaten blueberries and connects it to the head in the appropriate way. Her worm has grown by one segment.
7. There are no dice on Kolya's fruits; his worm is left without food.
8. Sofia's worm eats a cherry.
9. Now it is Petya's turn. He rolls all 6 dice again.

End of the Game

If you cover the last fruit of your last card with a die, you may begin eating immediately: turn over this card and the card with the worm's head. Now your worm's head has a laurel wreath, which means you have won!