Share A Berry
Share A Berry Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Overview
- Age: 3+
- Playing time: 30 minutes
- Players: 2–4
Components:
- 1 cardboard basket
- 24 path cards with bear cubs and strawberries
- 28 wooden strawberry beads
- 4 cords for stringing strawberries
- These rules
Goal of the Game
Players must help the bear cubs collect as many strawberries as possible, so that they can bake a delicious strawberry pie from them!
Setup
Place the basket with the 28 strawberry beads in the middle of the table.
Shuffle thoroughly, separately, the cards with a path and a pond, and separately the cards with only a path. From the basket, lay out a strawberry path of 6 cards for each player (see the picture):
- Cards must lie with the path side up (bear side down).
- The first 2 cards from the basket must be cards with a path and a pond; then come 4 cards with only a path.
If you are playing for the first time, tie a knot at one end of each cord.
How to Play
The youngest player starts. Then the turn passes clockwise.
1. Collecting Strawberries
On your turn, take the first card of your path (the one farthest from the basket), turn it bear side up, and place it in front of you.
Each card shows a bear holding 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 strawberries. The number of strawberries is also shown in the bottom right corner of the card. Take from the basket as many strawberries as the card shows, and string them onto your cord.
You may also come across a card where the bear has no strawberries, because it has not grown yet. In that case, the player takes no strawberries from the basket.
2. Giving Strawberries
The last 2 cards in each path are special cards. On them is drawn a bear who holds out strawberries to the right or to the left — it gives them away.
Before giving strawberries, the player counts whether there are enough strawberries on their cord. If there are not enough strawberries, the player gives nothing.
- If the bear holds out the strawberries to the left, it gives them to Grandmother: the player takes the strawberries off their cord and puts them into Grandmother's strawberry pie (for this you can use the bottom part of the game box).
- If the bear holds out the strawberries to the right, it gives them to Grandfather: the player takes the strawberries off their cord and puts them into Grandfather's strawberry pie (for this you can use the top part of the game box).
Note. You may replace the characters with other relatives, friends or fairy-tale characters who are close to and understandable for children.
Translator's note: the leaflet does not state the number of strawberries given away in this step. The text is transcribed as printed; the quantity is not spelled out in the rules text.
End of the Game
The game ends when all the path cards have been turned bear side up.
The player who has the fewest strawberries left on their cord is the kindest, and should certainly be praised. (If some players still find it hard to count more than 5 strawberries, the cords can be laid side by side and compared "by eye".)
All the players together count which pie has more strawberries — Grandmother's or Grandfather's. That is the house to visit for tea and a delicious pie!