Ready! Set! Spaghetti!
Ready! Set! Spaghetti! Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Get Ready!
- Remove round ingredient pieces from their plastic runners. Discard runners.
- Peel the round ingredient labels from the sheet. Apply them to the tops of the ingredient pieces as shown in Figure 1.
- Peel the square labels from the sheet. Apply one label to each side of the die as shown in Figure 2.
Your Spaghetti Gameboard
- Punch out and discard any excess cardboard from the holes in the gameboard.
- Place gameboard on top of the plastic base, as shown in Figure 3. The four plastic squares on the base fit into the square holes on the gameboard.
Your Spoons and Forks
- Attach spoons to the gameboard by pressing them firmly onto the plastic squares located at each corner. See Figure 4. Spoon handles should point away from the center of the gameboard.
- Insert the forks into the center of the spoons as shown in Figure 4. Push each fork down firmly, so that it locks into the base of the spoon, but rotates freely.
Your Spaghetti
- Tie a double knot at one end of the red spaghetti string. Insert the unknotted end of the red string through the small hole in the underside of the gameboard nearest the red fork. See Figures 5A and 5B. Draw the rest of the string through until the knot acts as a stop.
- Now thread the string through the hole in the front of the spoon and through the hole in the fork as shown in Figure 6.
- Tie a double knot at the end of the string. Then pull the string back onto the gameboard to form a spaghetti loop as shown in Figure 7. The knot should act as a stop on the back of the fork. Repeat this procedure at the other three corners of the gameboard. Be sure to attach each string to its matching color fork.
Get Set!
Object Of The Game
Be the first player to untangle your spaghetti and wind it up on your fork.
Setup
- Each player selects a fork and sits in front of it. (The spaghetti string you wind up will match your color fork.)
NOTE: In a 3-player game, one fork and one matching spaghetti string remain out of play. Place unused string off the board. In a 2-player game, each player must wind up 2 different colored spaghetti strings with matching color forks. (The first player to wind up all of his or her spaghetti on both forks wins.)
- The Spaghetti Tangle: Each player takes his or her matching color spaghetti string loop(s) and holds it loosely over the center of the gameboard plate as shown in Figure 8.
Players then call out "Ready! Set! Spaghetti!" and everyone drops their spaghetti into the middle of the spaghetti plate at the same time.
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All players help insert ingredients randomly into the holes located in the plate of spaghetti. Try not to move any of the spaghetti strings as you insert the ingredients.
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All players turn their forks to take the slack out of their spaghetti string.
IMPORTANT: Whenever you turn your fork, do so only until the slack has been taken up and the string becomes tight. Keep your fork vertical as you turn it—don't bend it. Excessive twisting could cause the fork to pop out of the spoon. (If this happens, simply snap the fork back into the spoon.)
Spaghetti Time!
How To Play
The youngest player goes first. Play continues to the left.
On your turn:
- Roll the die and remove one ingredient from the spaghetti that matches the ingredient rolled on the die. Place the ingredient out of play. If FREE CHOICE is rolled, remove any ingredient you choose from the spaghetti.
Try to remove an ingredient that will help loosen your spaghetti string without loosening your opponents' strings!
If there are no ingredients on the spaghetti that match your die roll, then continue rolling the die until a matching ingredient comes up.
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As soon as an ingredient has been removed from the board, all players yell "Spaghetti!" and turn their forks at the same time to wind up any loosened spaghetti.
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Your turn is now over. The player to your left takes his or her turn as described above. Play continues in a clockwise manner.
NOTE: Twisting the spaghetti string tightly may cause plastic ingredients to lift or pop out of the gameboard. To prevent this, press any raised ingredients back into their holes.
Winning The Game
The first player to twirl up all of his or her spaghetti wins.
NOTE: Sometimes the fastest twirler wins! For example, several players may be able to wind up all of their spaghetti as soon as one remaining ingredient is removed. To avoid a tie, players should twirl their forks as quickly as possible. The first person to wind up all of his or her spaghetti yells "Spaghetti—I win!"
To Play Another Game
Simply unwind the spaghetti string from the forks. This is done by pulling the string back through the hole in the spoon, while turning the fork to loosen the string.
Finished Playing?
Pull the forks out of the spoons, but leave the spoons attached to the board. The strings should remain attached. Carefully place everything back into the box.