GNOMING A ROUND

 

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OBJECTIVE OF GNOMING A ROUND: Be the player with the lowest score at the end of the third round. 

NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 3 – 7 players

CONTENTS: 110 playing cards

TYPE OF GAME: Set collection

AUDIENCE: Kids, Adults

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INTRODUCTION OF GNOMING A ROUND

Gnoming A Round is a commercial version of the classic card game Golf published by Grandpa Beck’s Games.  In this beautifully designed game, players are competing on the Gnome’s mini-golf course to see who can get the lowest score.  During each round, players will draw cards and exchange them with cards in their layout in order to minimize their score.  Mulligan cards are wild and help with completing matching sets.  Watch out for hazards because they allow everyone else to flip over a card.

CONTENTS

Gnoming A Round contains and instruction booklet, a recipe card, and 110 playing cards.  There are 82 positive valued cards, 22 negative valued cards, 6 special cards, 3 hazard cards, and 3 mulligan cards.  온카지노

SETUP

 Shuffle and deal nine cards to each player.  The cards are dealt face down to form a 3×3 grid.  Players should not look at their cards.  The rest of the deck is placed face down as a draw pile.  Flip two cards over to create to discard piles.

Players choose two cards from their layout to turn face up. 

THE PLAY

The youngest player goes first.  A player’s turn is composed of three phases: draw, play, & discard.

DRAW

The player can choose to draw one card from the draw pile or take one card from the top of either discard pile.

PLAY

If the player wants to keep the card they drew, they use it to replace a face down or face up card from their layout.

When playing cards to the layout, positive cards will earn the player positive points unless they are able to create rows or columns of matching cards.  If a matching row or column is created, the player will deduct points from their score equal to the value of the matching card.  For example, if a row of 5’s is formed, the player will deduct 5 points from their score at the end of the round.

Negative cards always reduce the player’s score at the end of the round.  It does not matter if they are matching with other cards or not.

When a hazard card is discarded, all other players at the table get to flip over one card in their layout.  A player’s final card cannot be flipped over due to a hazard card.

Mulligan cards are wild, and they can be equal to any value needed to complete a matching row or column (or both!).  The card can represent different values based on what the player needs.  A player can only have one mulligan in their layout at the end of their turn.

Bouncing

When a player replaces a face down card in their layout, they first turn that card over.  If it is a positive value card that matches the card the player is