Sing Sing Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Setup
• Gameplay
• End of the Game
• Advanced Rules

Components

• 24 prisoner pieces
• 35 short sticks (7 per colour)
• 20 long sticks (4 per colour)
• 10 red tokens
• 1 Lime card (lime is French for file)
• 1 mask
• 1 board

Setup

Place 2 prisoner cards face up in each window on the board. In each window, place 2 short sticks vertically and 1 long stick horizontally to cover the prisoners; each prisoner has one short stick vertically covering it. The remaining sticks are not used.

Designate the first player, who receives the Lime. The player to their left takes the mask.

Translator's note: the components list refers to "prisoner pieces" while the setup refers to "prisoner cards". Both are transcribed as printed.

Gameplay

The player with the mask puts it over their eyes so they can no longer see anything.

The player with the Lime removes a stick of their choice from the board. This stick never returns to play, whatever happens.

The player with the mask takes off the mask and must name the colour and length of the stick that was removed, and the window it was taken from.

• If the player is wrong: the player with the Lime keeps the Lime, and the mask passes to the next player (clockwise). The player with the Lime then removes another stick.
• If the player gives the correct answer: the player takes the Lime, and gives the mask to the player on their left.

If, by removing a stick, a prisoner is left with no stick covering it, that prisoner escapes during this turn. In that case, if the player with the mask gives the correct answer, they take the prisoner. Otherwise, the player with the Lime takes the prisoner.

Translator's note: the sheet does not say how the Lime and the mask pass on after an escape. The rules above are transcribed as printed.

End of the Game

The first player to have 3 different prisoners, or 3 identical prisoners, wins the game.

Advanced Rules

Each player receives 2 red tokens at the start of the game. These tokens serve two purposes:

1. The player with the Lime may decide to remove 2 sticks during their turn. They must announce this and pay 1 red token before removing the 2 sticks.
2. The player with the mask may give a second answer if they were wrong the first time. They pay 1 red token and give a second answer. A player may not give 3 answers during the same turn.