No Mercy for Monsters
No Mercy for Monsters Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Material
- 1 board — a box representing a family house in 3D, with five rooms that open like a popup book
- 10 monsters with plastic stands to mount them on
- 27 tokens (18 socks, 3 monsters, 3 balls, 3 buckets of water)
- 1 purple die
- 2 cardboard pieces to hold the walls of the house
- 5 cardboard fragile objects with plastic stands to mount them on (for Variant 2)
- 1 orange die (for Variant 2)
1) Idea of the Game
While the Sweets were dining out, monsters have invaded their house. Your role? Knock them down before the family comes back. You have a few tricks up your sleeves to counter the spells the monsters throw back at you: hit them with socks, aim balls at them and drop buckets of water on their heads.
2) Aim of the Game
In this cooperative party game your goal is to knock all the monsters down before there are no more tokens left to throw.
Warm-Up
Hold your horses! You are very brave and all, but beware: we cannot go fighting monsters like that! These very special monsters can cast spells and the battle ahead is going to be tough. Before we start, warm up and test your reflexes:
- Turn your wrists 10 times in one direction, then in the other
- Jump 20 times from one foot to the other
- Turn around 3 times with your eyes closed
- Stretch: touch your toes, and reach for the ceiling. Now pat your cheeks and make your prettiest face!
That's it, you're ready! Good luck!
3) Setting Up the Game
Put the box on a table approx. 20 inches (50 cm) from the edge, open it and construct the house by lifting the first 3 flaps. Use the cardboard pieces to bind the walls together.
Place the monsters on the path in the garden in ascending order: monster number 1 (Oops Monster) should stand closest to the door and monster number 10 (Jojo Monster) should be on the path, at the back of the line. If you don't know numbers yet, ask your friends, parents or siblings for help. The monsters are now ready to enter through the door!
Move the first monster (monster number 1) to stand on the floor in the first room. Make sure there is enough space behind the monster so it can fall down when hit with a token.
As soon as the monster is knocked down, remove it, turn the page to move to the next room, and move the next 2 monsters into the house. In the following rooms, you will bring in 2 monsters per room, and then 3 monsters into the last room (the garage).
Be careful, you can only knock down the monsters that are inside the house. Monsters in the garden are awaiting their turn to enter and cannot be hit. If you accidentally knock one over, pick it up and put it back in the line of monsters.
Mix up all the tokens and spread them face down on the table in front of the house. In the basic variant of the game you only need the purple die. Take one step back from the table. You are ready to play!
The orange die and the remaining objects (a vase, a shopping bag, a mirror, a tower of blocks, and a stack of cartons) are used in the more challenging version of the game (see Variant 2).
Monsters
The ten monsters, in order from number 1 (closest to the door) to number 10 (at the back of the line), are:
- Oops Monster
- Boom Monster
- Grrrr Monster
- Love Monster
- Chic Monster
- Bigg Monster
- Frizuri Monster
- Kiki Monster
- Beep Beep Monster
- Jojo Monster
4) How to Play
The youngest player starts. Each player takes it in turn to roll the purple die and turn over a token. Each token shows either an object to throw at the monsters, or a monster.
The Purple Die
On each side of the purple die, a pictogram indicates a constraint you must respect when throwing the token. This is the spell cast by a monster. The six pictograms are:
- Close one eye
- Make a face
- Lift one foot
- Throw with your weaker hand
- Pinch your nose
- Shout
The Tokens
The different types of tokens are as follows: socks, balls, buckets of water and monsters. If a player turns over:
- A sock whose pair is not in the room's illustration: they throw the sock at a monster.
- A sock whose pair is in the room's illustration: they throw the sock and can repeat the throw if they didn't succeed to knock the monster down.
- A ball: they throw it through the window on the right (from the outside of the house).
- A bucket of water: they drop it from above the house.
- A monster: they must pick up one monster that has been knocked down in this room and stand it up again. THEN put the token back, face down, and it is the next player's turn. (Be careful not to choose this token anymore!)
All the tokens that were used to throw are discarded. Monster tokens are never discarded.
When all the monsters in a room have been knocked down and removed, lift the page to go to the next room in the house and bring in the new monsters, as explained in the setup.
5) End of the Game
The game ends when all the monsters have been knocked down or when there are no more tokens to throw. If the 10 monsters were knocked down, well done, you win!
Variant 2 — For Experts in Monster Chasing
If you are already a pro at throwing socks at monsters, you can raise the bar and try a more challenging variant of the game. This mode adds fragile objects to the rooms, ones that you must not knock down.
Set up the game exactly the same as in the basic variant. Place the 5 fragile objects next to the house. In this variant you will use both the orange and purple dice.
How to Play
At the beginning of the game, the youngest player rolls the orange die to determine if there is an extra object in the first room.
- A dot means you should put one extra obstacle in the room. Make sure there is enough space behind the object so it can fall down when hit with a token, and that it does not stand in front of or behind a monster.
- A clover — lucky you! This means that you don't place any extra object in the room.
The game proceeds as in the basic variant. If a player knocks down an object, bad luck! You have to mix up all the remaining tokens that are lying in front of the house. Now you no longer know which of them were the monster tokens!
When you move on to the next room, it is the next youngest player's turn to roll the orange die.
End of the Game
As in the basic variant, the game ends when the 10 monsters are knocked down or when there are no more tokens left to throw.
Variant 3 — Easier
To make the game easier, play as in the basic variant, but without using the purple die! In this variant the monsters don't cast spells and your goal is to simply knock them all down. You can also play this variant as a little warm-up before the real game.