Rookie Pocket Game Rules User Guide

Rookie Pocket Game Rules

Product Information

Specifications

• Product Name: ROOKIE
• Players: 2-6
• Age Range: 6 and up
• Variations: Standard, Team, Kids

Product Usage Instructions

Preparation

1. Shuffle the cards well.
2. Divide the cards into 9 piles, face down.
3. Arrange the piles into a square.

Getting Started

Turn over 2 of the top cards on the piles. If they match, distribute the pair among your 3 discard piles. If they don’t match, turn them back around.

Important: Ensure all 3 of your discard piles have the same colour. Place them onto your points pile to secure your cards.

Game Changer: The Card

• If you uncover 2 cards instead of colours, place them on your discard pile. You can then take all unsecured cards from the player before or after you.
• If you uncover 1 colour card and 1 card, leave them facing up and end your turn.

Team Mode

• In team mode, play in pairs. Uncovered pairs can be distributed among your partner’s discard piles.
• Secure 3 matching colours to score points.

Kids Mode

• In kids mode, all uncovered pairs go directly onto the points pile.
• Discard piles are not needed.

FAQ

• Q: Can more than 6 players play Rookie?
• A: No, the game is designed for 2-6 players.
• Q: Can the game be played without discard piles?
• A: Yes, in Kids mode, discard piles are not necessary.

INSTRUCTIONS

• The madcap card matching game for 2-6 players aged 6 and up

GAME DIVISION

CONTENTS

• 1 Instructions
• 18 cards in 5 colours*
• 18 cards*

GOAL

• Uncover, collect and secure card pairs.
• Do you have the most? Then you’ve won!
• 1 card = 1 point
• You can play three variations of Rookie:
• Standard, Team and Kids.

PREPARATION

• Shuffle the cards well. Divide them into 9 piles, face down. Arrange the piles into a square.
• 12 cards in the Pocket and Travel versions

GETTING STARTED
Decide as a group who starts – and then go round anticlockwise. This is how you play:

• Turn over 2 of the 9 top cards on the piles. If they are the same, distribute the pair among your 3 discard piles, either on top of each other or next to each other. It’s still your turn: turn over 2 new cards.
• After you uncover a pair of cards that do not match, you turn the sets of two matching cards on the piles back around. Then it is the next player’s turn.

NOTE
Has one of the 9 piles been used up? Put the next uncovered card here face up. If you don’t then find a matching card, and put this card face down again – as a new pile.
IMPORTANT: SECURE YOUR POINTS.
You must have the same colour on all 3 of your discard piles. So put all 3 of your discard piles onto your points pile. You have secured your cards. Well done!

GAME CHANGER: THE CARD

Instead of colours, you have uncovered 2 cards. Place them in your discard pile. Your reward: You may take all the unsecured cards of the player who goes before or after you. Divide them up among your discard piles.
If you have uncovered 1 colour card and 1 card, leave these cards facing up. Your turn is now over. The next player has…

OPTION 1
Turning over the upwards-facing cards and starting again, i.e. uncovering 2 new cards.

OPTION 2

• Attempting to find the second or second colour – but by uncovering a single card only:
• Has the second card been uncovered? Then the player may distribute the two cards among their discard piles – and may take the unsecured cards of the player to their left and distribute them among their own discard piles. All upwards-facing cards on the playing field are turned face down again and the player continues with 2 new cards.
• Or has the second colour been uncovered? Then the player may distribute the 2 colour cards among their discard piles and turn over 1 new card.
• Has neither been uncovered? Then the cards are left facing up. It is now the next player’s turn – and options 1 and 2 are now open to them.

3 IN A ROW
Great! You have an on all 3 of your discard piles – Rookie!
First, secure your 3 discard piles. Then take all the unsecured cards from all the players and distribute them as you like on your discard piles.

GAME OVER
You have uncovered the last pair – your reward: you receive all unsecured cards from all other players.
Now everyone counts up their points. Who has the most cards in their points pile? They are the winner!

TEAM MODE
Instead of playing solo, you play in pairs. The two team partners sit opposite each other. The trick here is that an uncovered pair can also be distributed among your partner’s discard piles. A team will soon have 3 matching colours on their discard piles and may secure them. At the end, the teams put their points piles together and count up the points. Who has the most points?

KIDS MODE
Remove all cards. Discard piles are also not necessary.
All uncovered pairs are laid directly onto the points pile.

• Author: Tobias Angelo Kaufmann
• Design: Erich Brechbühl

Version 1.2
© 2022 Game Division AG Gewerbestrasse 6, CH-6417 Sattel www.gamedivision.ch.

References

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