Käse Würfeln Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Setup
• Gameplay
  • How do you roll?
  • When does the player receive a cheese piece?
  • What does the player do with his cheese pieces?
  • Closing a cheese stack
  • Stealing cheese pieces
  • When does the player receive a gift card?
  • When does the player receive a bonus card?
• End of the Game

Components

• 38 cheese pieces, numbered 2 to 6
• 16 cheese pieces numbered 1, each with a mouse side and a cheese-dome side
• 5 gift cards
• 7 bonus cards
• 8 dice
• 1 dice cup (in the box)

Bonus cards as shown on the cards: four categories of bonus card are used – the 4-stack, the 5-stack, the 6-stack and "Most cheese stacks". The 4-stack cards show 8, 10 and 12; the 5-stack cards show 20 and 25; the 6-stack card shows 40; the "Most cheese stacks" card shows 12.

Setup

Place the various cards in the middle of the table as follows:

• The cheese pieces are sorted by their values from "1" to "6" and stacked. The 1-cheese pieces are placed with the mouse side showing.
• Next to them is the stack of the five gift cards.
• The bonus cards are sorted by category (4-stack, 5-stack, 6-stack and "Most cheese stacks") and stacked by bonus number, with the highest number on top.

The starting player is the player with the most cheese in the fridge. He receives the eight dice and the dice cup. Play then continues clockwise.

Gameplay

How do you roll?

The player may roll up to 4 times. He begins with all eight dice. After each roll he may set aside any number of dice. Dice that have been set aside may be rolled again in a later roll. At the latest after the fourth roll it is determined whether he receives cheese pieces. All eight dice are always taken into account.

When does the player receive a cheese piece?

If, at the end of the turn, there is a number of dice that is equal to their face value, then the player receives:

• a 1-cheese piece, if exactly one die shows the face "1",
• a 2-cheese piece, if exactly two dice show the face "2",
• a 3-cheese piece, if exactly three dice show the face "3",
• a 4-cheese piece, if exactly four dice show the face "4",
• a 5-cheese piece, if exactly five dice show the face "5",
• a 6-cheese piece, if exactly six dice show the face "6".

Note: it is possible to receive several cheese pieces in one turn.

Example: Dice rolled (shown in the illustration). The player receives a 3-cheese piece, a 2-cheese piece and a 1-cheese piece.

Example: Dice rolled (shown in the illustration). The player receives a 5-cheese piece and a 2-cheese piece.

Example: Dice rolled (shown in the illustration). The player does not receive a 3-cheese piece, because one "3" too many was rolled.

Note: Instead of taking the cheese piece that was rolled, the player may also take a cheese piece of a lower value from the middle. This is especially necessary when the rolled cheese piece is no longer available in the middle. For example, a player who would be allowed to take a 6-cheese piece may instead take a 5-cheese piece or a 4-cheese piece from the middle.

What does the player do with his cheese pieces?

The player has two options:

1. The player starts a cheese stack with the cheese piece. To do this he simply places the cheese piece in front of himself.
2. The player places the cheese piece on another cheese piece that already lies in front of him. The new cheese piece must have a lower value. This means that the values of the cheese pieces in a cheese stack always become smaller going upward.

Example: The illustration shows a 4 placed on a 5, a 2 placed on the 4, and a 1 (cheese-dome side) placed on a 6. A 3 placed on another 3 is crossed out as not allowed.

Caution: Cheese pieces may not be restacked at a later time.

Closing a cheese stack

The 1-cheese piece has two different sides. If the player wants to close a cheese stack, he places the cheese piece with the cheese-dome side up on a cheese stack. The stack is then closed.

If the player does not want to close a cheese stack immediately with the 1-cheese piece, he may place it in front of himself with the mouse side up and use it to close a cheese stack in a later turn.

The player may have up to two 1-cheese pieces lying in front of him with the mouse side up. If he receives another one, he must use it to close a cheese stack. If he has no cheese stack that he can close, he turns it over to the cheese-dome side and so makes it a closed stack.

Stealing cheese pieces

Instead of taking the rolled cheese pieces from the middle, the player may steal them from his left or right neighbour. Requirement: the cheese piece lies in front of that player as a single card or as the top card of a stack. No cheese piece may be taken from within a stack. However, it is possible to first steal the top cheese piece and then the one underneath it, since that one is now on top.

Caution: 1-cheese pieces may not be stolen, regardless of which side they lie on. Closed cheese stacks are therefore always safe.

When does the player receive a gift card?

If a player could not take a cheese piece after his fourth roll, he receives a gift card as consolation. The player may use the gift in one of his next turns, after a roll, to turn one die to any face value.

The gift remains in the player's possession until he uses it and returns it to the middle. A player can hold only one gift at a time.

When does the player receive a bonus card?

A player who closes a cheese stack of 4, 5 or 6 cheese pieces may immediately take a bonus card of the corresponding category with the highest value (= bonus points) from the middle.

Example: The illustration shows a 4-stack closed by the cheese-dome piece, from which the player takes the 12 bonus card, and a 5-stack closed by the cheese-dome piece, from which the player takes the 25 bonus card.

The "Most cheese stacks" bonus card is only awarded at the end of the game.

End of the Game

The game ends immediately when three cheese stacks of any kind have been used up in the middle. Any player who has 1-cheese pieces lying in front of him with the mouse side up uses them to close any open cheese stacks and may receive bonus cards as a result. If a player has no open stack, he simply turns the cheese piece over.

The player with the most cheese stacks receives the corresponding bonus card (a single cheese piece also counts as a cheese stack). If several players have the most cheese stacks, the bonus value is divided among these players.

Each player then adds up his cheese points.

• For each closed cheese stack, he multiplies the value of the bottom cheese piece by the number of cheese pieces in the stack.
• For each open cheese stack, he adds up the values of the cheese pieces.

Examples:

• A closed stack consisting of one 1-cheese piece: 1 × 1 = 1 cheese point.
• A closed stack of four 2-cheese pieces: 4 × 2 = 8 cheese points.
• A closed stack of five 3-cheese pieces: 5 × 3 = 15 cheese points.
• A closed stack of six 6-cheese pieces: 6 × 6 = 36 cheese points.
• An open stack of a 5-cheese piece and a 2-cheese piece: 5 + 2 = 7 cheese points.

Each player who holds bonus cards adds their bonus points to his total. Gift cards do not score any points. The player with the most cheese points wins. In the event of a tie, there are several winners.