Picnic Party

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**Video for All Special Edition Picnic Party-ers:**

Hey Everyone, thank you for supporting my Picnic Party game! Just a quick note about the special edition copies:

Build your dice: Before you can play, you have to make your 6 Fruit Dice. Each die just needs a unique fruit on each face: 1 lemon; 1 watermelon; 1 apple; 1 blueberry; 1 cherry; and 1 grape.
The rules are hiding beneath the card separator. I like just ditching that card separator altogether!
Keep your leftover dice stickers! They are great to use for you and friends when designing your own animal-card creations to add to your copy.

Party on!

–Rob

PS. And thank you so much for the Feedback: Feedback PDF Link!

How to Play Solo Mode:

In single-player games, the animals are particularly picky and they’ll run away if your food is too yucky. To play solo, use normal setup and rules of play but add these changes:

Have an area designated for the “Runaway Pile”.
Anytime you feed your Guest a yucky roll it will run away: Add it face-up to the top of the Runaway Pile.
Rockstar rolls are your main way to win back any runaways (and Snatch & Charm). Every time you get a rock- star roll, you may invite the top runaway as a next Guest.
New ability for Block: Spend this ability to reorder the cards in the Runaway Pile however you wish (go easy on top!).
When you reach Step 4 of a turn, go back to Step 1. Repeat until all animals have either joined your party or run away to greener pastures. (Then count your score!)

Game Variants:

Stinky Benefits: Whoever has the most Stinks at the end of the game gets +5 points and no minuses!
Four Fruit Frenzy: The first to spot the same four fruit in any roll and yell “Frenzy!” gets to choose ONE of the actions below—but careful: mis-speak and you have to return one of the guests you’ve gained back to the lane (if possible).
- A: Restore 1 ability card, or
- B: Move a stinky card in play to any player of their choice, or
- C: Bump any green grass party guest belonging to a player back to Animal Lane.
- D: Hide any card in Animal Lane—ie. turn it face-down until your next turn. At the start of your next/upcoming turn, return it face-up.
Vye with Vort: Add Vort to the game as a regular guest. He’s a 5-point card (!!) but is hard to feed: He needs 5 fruit of ONE type (ex. 5 blueberries or 5 lemons , etc.) but you choose! (Tip: Choose after you do your roll (Fruit Toss) on him so that you can go for the best odds!)
Fruit Fasting: When you gain 5 or more party guests on your team you must go down 1 dice (!). And, if you gain 10 animals, you must go down 2 dice (!!).
First to Ten (The Quick Game): The first to score 10 points wins.
Rock the Rockstar: For the rest of the game any player who gets a Rockstar Roll gets to keep on going (ie. there is no limit to the number of Guests you can acquire if you continue to get lucky!—provided you do not use abilities).

Variants for Solo Mode:

Peachy Rolls: Anytime you roll a double-peach—or a double-cherry, depending on your version— move the top Runaway card back to the Lane.

Picnic Party Tournaments:

Picnic Party Tournaments are a fun way to learn the game whilst having a little competitive fun 🙂

Structure
- All games are played 1 vs 1 and each participant always gets to play at least 2 games.
Feet Wet Round (Round 1)
- This first round is just for fun, a chance “to get your feet wet,” it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, so this is an ideal teaching round for new players. Setup:
  - Do random draws to match players together 1 vs 1
  - If you win the Feet Wet Round move to Side 1, if you lose move to Side 2 (if your tournament has an odd number of players, randomly select a player to get a “bye” — they move immediately to Side 1)
  - Players remain in Side 1 or Side 2 for the remainder of the tournament
Elimination Phase (Rounds 2+)
- Do single or double elimination rounds until Side 1 has a winner and Side 2 has a winner
Final Showdown
- Winner of Side 1 plays Winner of Side 2 in the “Final Showdown”

**The Race to Vort Variant for Tournament Play:**

It’s a Race to Vort! The first player to get Vort wins provided you play with these three twists or caveats:

Vort in the Lane! Vort begins the game in the Lane (setup the game as normal THEN add Vort as the 6th card in the lane right off the hop).
Vort’s Picky Pre-order! If ever you invite Vort over as a Guest, you must first roll 1 die to get “Vort’s Pre-order“—this is a temporary roll you make just to learn his craving for that turn: Whichever Fruit you roll is the one you must feed him!
- Example: if you roll a Blueberry as his Pre-order, take back your temporary roll and proceed to your Fruit Toss attempt Step 3)—you must get FIVE Blueberries in order to get Vort! (or SIX Blueberries, if playing with Vort, the Legendary)
- 5 Blue-berries over the course of your Fruit Toss attempt in order to win Vort that turn)
Vort Plays to Win: If, when you gain Vort, you don’t have more points than your opponent, you must keep playing—Vort only hangs out with winners ;). However, the moment you can surpass your opponent’s point count you immediately win the game.
- Note: Your opponent still has a chance… they must either take Vort from you or win by staying ahead until the very end of the game!

Hosting Your Own Picnic Party Tournament? (Requires at least 4 participants)

Hosting a Picnic Party tournament is a fun and unique way for you to share Picnic Party with your friends and family. If you are interested in running your own Official Picnic Party Tournament, please cont act us.

You may even get a copy of Vort, the Legendary—the 6-Fruit Tournament Foil (the 6-pointer Vort), available to Official Party Hosts who contact the designer about their Tournament and agree to share pictures of the Event :).

Notes:
- Vort, the Legendary is intended for the winner of the tournament
- It is recommended that the Final Showdown always be played using the Race to Vort variant for tournament play with Vort, the Legendary added to the Lane after setup instead of the regular Vort, but with this twist:
  - If Vort, the Legendary ends up being the last card in play (because he is often so hard to acquire for players during the match), turn his card sideways to indicate that he has morphed into the 30-point card FEED-ME-EVERYTHING Vort. In this form he becomes much easier to feed: The player who feeds him one of every fruit wins—winning the tournament and the Legendary 6-Fruit Vort!