pick a bear game

Pick-a-Polar Bear, first published as Formissimo, features the same gameplay as Pick-a-Dog but with two new variants! To set up the basic game, lay out 30 cards in a grid and give one card face down to each player. Each card has five attributes, with each attribute having two states: large/small, with/without a raised arm, orange autumn/blue winter background, with/without goggles, and with/without canned fish. Someone shouts “Go!”, then everyone looks at their card in hand. Players then start grabbing cards from the grid and stacking them in hand. The card grabbed must be identical to the top card in hand or differ from that top card in only one way. Thus, as you grab cards, the attributes of that top card will keep changing, forcing you to look for matches in new ways.

Game Contents:

• 96 animal cards

• 9 special cards

• 5 "-2 points" cards

• 1 rules sheet

How to play:

Only the 96 animal cards will be used in the basic game. Put the other cards back into the box. Choose a player to be the dealer and do the following in order:

1) Shuffle all the animal cards face-down and form a draw pile.

2) Place one card face down in front of each player as their "Captain" card. (The players should not look at them).

3) Lay out 5 rows of 6 cards face-up, 30 in total, as the "Member" cards in the middle of the table.

4) Players now say "GO!" (at the same time) to start the first round of the game.

On "GO!" all players simultaneously turn over their Captain card. Using one hand only, all players try to quickly grab their first Member card from the middle of the table. The first Member card a player collects must feature either no differences or only one difference when compared to his Captain card.

• 15mins play

• 1-5 players

• For ages 8+