Poo: The Card Game
Poo: The Card Game Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
What Do I Need to Play?
You need three things to play Poo:
- A deck of Poo cards.
- Some markers to keep track of how much Poo each monkey has on him. You can use pennies, beads, glass stones, or chocolate chips - whatever you've got handy. You can also keep track on a notepad.
- A sense of humor.
The Types of Cards
There are five types of cards in Poo (each card, below its illustration, states which type it is):
- Poo Cards and Special Poo Cards represent different sorts of Poo to fling at another player.
- Defense Cards represent ways to avoid flung Poo.
- Mishap Cards represent bad things that can happen to monkeys when they fling Poo.
- Clean Cards represent ways in which monkeys can clean Poo off themselves.
- Event Cards represent other things that can happen while monkeys are flinging Poo.
Keeping It Flying
With what's getting flung around the cage, if you pause you're going to find yourself in trouble. Each player should take their turn quickly to keep the fun and action moving. If a player is taking too long, feel free to use the "5 Banana" rule - each player has until the count of five bananas on their turn to play a card, or his turn is skipped! (One banana... two banana... three banana...)
The Object of Poo
Poo and Special Poo cards have a certain number of Poo associated with them. When they hit you, you build up that many "points" of Poo. You want to take as little Poo as possible, while dishing out as much as possible. When a player accumulates 15 points of Poo he's out of the game. The object is to be the last monkey standing!
Starting the Game
The first thing you should do is remove the two Golden Banana cards from the deck and set them aside. Then make sure the deck is good and shuffled. Deal five cards, face down, to each player. You can play rock, paper, scissors or flip a coin to see who starts the game - or whoever lost the last game starts.
Taking Turns
On your turn, you can choose to do any one of two things:
- Play one Poo, Special Poo, Clean, or Event card from your hand. Some cards will allow you to play a second or third card on the same turn - see the individual card rules for these exceptions.
- Instead of playing a card, you can choose to discard any number of cards from your hand and draw immediately back up to five total cards.
Playing Out of Turn
There are two types of cards that you may play when it isn't your turn - Defense and Mishap cards.
Defense cards are played in response to another player flinging a Poo or Special Poo card at you, and prevent you from getting hit. Some of these cards redirect the Poo at another player. Poo can never be redirected back at the player who flung it, even if he is your only remaining opponent (in which case, treat all cards with redirect rules as if they are a standard Block card).
Mishap cards are played in response to another player flinging a Poo or Special Poo card at any player, and cause him some degree of discomfort or harm. Only one Mishap card may be played on any single Poo or Special Poo card. The first Mishap card called out or played must be used (players can't discuss and decide which card is better to play).
Some cards will tell you that there's nothing you can do about it, and that means that Defense and Mishap Cards are useless. Stand there and take it like a monkey!
Getting Hit By Poo
If another player flings a Poo or Special Poo card at you, and you have no Defense or Mishap card to prevent it from hitting you, you take a certain number of Poo. The amount is always given on the card. If you ever reach 15 or more total Poo, you're out of the game.
However, Clean cards allow you to remove an amount of Poo, which is listed on the cards. When you choose to play one on your turn, immediately remove that many points of Poo. However, you can never get so clean that you have less than zero points of Poo on you, no matter how many Clean cards you play.
Dealing Poo to Multiple Opponents
Cards such as the Devil Poo or the Snake deal Poo to multiple opponents. In the case of cards that direct Poo back at the flinger, such as the Slip Mishap card, the flinger only takes the base Poo listed on the card. For example, a flinger hit by a Slip card when flinging the Devil Poo only takes 3 Poo, not 3 Poo times the number of other players. In the case of a redirect, such as a Buddy's Face or Dodge card, the target takes both his Poo and the Poo from the redirect. For example, if hit by the Snake and a Buddy's Face, a target takes 6 Poo.
The Golden Banana
The monkey gods smile on shenanigans like this. The first player who would normally be out of the game instead takes the Golden Banana card and returns to play with 8 Poo on him. The Golden Banana is then out of play and anyone else who totals 15 Poo is out. If playing with 5-8 players, add the second Golden Banana to play; the same person can end up using both Golden Banana cards.
2 or 3 Player Games
Several of the cards in Poo function best in games with three or more players. If you are playing with only two players, or once the battle is down to only two players, the following cards are modified the following ways.
- Dodge and Buddy's Face Defense cards cannot redirect Poo at the player who flung it. Treat these cards as if they were a standard Block Defense card instead. The Poo misses and hits no one.
- The Shimmy-Shimmy Shake Clean card only affects the other player. Both "points" of Poo go to him.
- The Snake does 3 Poo to the other player. The extra 3 Poo simply miss.
Drawing Cards
Whenever you play a card, whether on your turn or out of turn, immediately draw a card from the deck. You should always have five cards in your hand.
Running Out of Cards
If a game lasts long enough that you draw through all the cards in the deck, remove all Clean cards, then reshuffle the discard pile and keep playing!
Winning The Game
Each time a player builds up 15 points of Poo, he's out of the game. If everyone's out of the game but you, then you win!
That's it. All the rest of the rules you'll need to know are directly on the cards. Get flinging!
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