The New Yorker: Cartoon Caption Game Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• The Set-Up
• How to Play
• How to Win

The Set-Up

1. Select game pieces and place them on START.
2. Take an answer sheet and write your name at the top.
3. Place the cartoon cards face down on the board.
4. Place the timer on the board.
5. Roll the dice; high roller goes first.

Game information as printed on the insert: 3-6 Players, Ages Teen to Adult.

How to Play

1. Player rolls the dice and moves the number of spaces shown.
2. Roller turns over the top cartoon card, places it face-up in the middle of the board, and starts the timer.
3. All players except for the roller have 45 seconds to write a caption on their answer sheets. Write something and write neatly!
4. All answer sheets are collected, shuffled, and read aloud by the player to the right of the roller (the "reader").
   • The roller can request to hear the captions again.
5. After hearing all of the captions, the roller must pick his/her favorite and then guess which player wrote which caption.
   • Players should allow the roller to try matching ALL captions before revealing how many were matched correctly.
6. The reader reveals the results.
   • The roller advances one space for every correct match.
   • The player whose caption was the favorite advances two spaces.
   • There is no opportunity to roll again, and no penalty for incorrectly matching players' answers.
   • Play moves clockwise.

How to Win

The first player to land on the WIN space (an exact roll is not needed) and match at least two players' captions correctly wins the game.

If the roller matches fewer than two of the captions, he/she remains on the WIN space until his/her next turn.