Martin Nedergaard Andersen
Illustrations: Oliver Freudenreich
VOODOO MANIA
Fire up your cauldrons, gather your potions,
it’s time for some Voodoo Mania!
It’s an all-out frenzy to use up all your cursed ingredients.
Be the first to do so and you’ll become the Voodoo Master!
For 2 to 6 players, aged 7 years and up.
CONTENTS
91 ingredient cards
(with ingredients on both sides)
6 legend cards
1 set of playing instructions
GETTING STARTED
Shuffle the ingredient cards and place 1 ingredient card in the middle
of the table, well within everyone’s reach. This will be the “Voodoo
pile”. Then, deal out the remaining ingredient cards evenly among
the players:
2 players = 45 ingredient cards each
3 players = 30 ingredient cards
4 players = 22 ingredient cards
5 players = 18 ingredient cards
6 players = 15 ingredient cards
Each player has his own pile of ingredient cards, and forms his starting
hand by drawing 3 ingredient cards from his pile. Each player also takes
1 legend card.
Unused ingredient and legend cards are returned to the box.
AIM OF THE GAME
The first player to play all of his ingredient cards wins the round.
The player with the fewest points after 3 rounds of play wins the game.
Ingredient cards
There are 5 different ingredients (doll, mask, potion, amulet, and top
hat), and 5 different colors (red, yellow, green, blue, and purple).
All ingredients and colors are listed on the legend cards.
Each ingredient card shows only 4 different ingredients and 4 different
colors per side. There is always 1 missing ingredient and color on each
ingredient card!
ORDER OF PLAY
The youngest player calls out “Voodoo Mania!” Everyone starts to play
at the same time, playing as fast as they can! There are no turns!
The players must figure out which ingredient and color is missing from
the ingredient card on the top of the Voodoo pile. Once you identify
the needed ingredient and color, you have two options:
1. Search your hand for a card that has the missing ingredient of the
color that is missing from the Voodoo pile card. You can search both
sides of your cards for the missing ingredient! As soon as you find the
right combination of ingredient and color, play it on top of the Voodoo
pile and announce what it is so everyone can hear you. Then, draw the
top card from your own pile and add it to your hand.
The game continues without stopping, but now there is a different
ingredient card on top of the Voodoo pile—and a new combination of
ingredient and color to find!
The potion and the color purple are missing from the ingredient card
on top of the Voodoo pile. The players search their hands for a purple
potion, which Oliver happens to have in his hand. So, he plays his card
and calls out “purple potion!” Now everybody needs to look for
a green mask.
2. Instead of playing the missing combination of ingredient and color,
you can instead play an ingredient card that is also missing the same
combination as the ingredient card on top of the Voodoo pile!
If you play this card, call out “Voodoo!”. Play immediately stops and
everybody lays down their cards. All players, except the one who called
out “Voodoo!”, must pull 1 card from the bottom of the Voodoo pile and
slide it under their own pile of ingredient cards (starting with the player
to the left of the “Voodoo” caller and going clockwise). Once everyone
has drawn, the players pick up their hands again. The “Voodoo” caller
announces “Voodoo Mania!”, and the game continues.
(To see visual examples of game play, visit www.passportgamestudios.com)
IMPORTANT:
There must always be at least 1 card in the Voodoo pile! If there are
not enough cards for everyone to draw, each player who can pull out
an ingredient card does so, in turn order. Everyone else is off
the hook!
The purple potion is missing from the top ingredient card of the
Voodoo pile. Leanne lays down a card that is also missing purple and
the potion, and calls out “Voodoo!” First Oliver and then Nick must
each pull the bottom card from the Voodoo pile and slide it under
their own piles of ingredient cards.
If you cannot find the right combination—either a card that has the
missing ingredient of the right color, or a card that is missing the exact
same combination—you may slide any card from your hand under your
own pile of ingredient cards and replace it with the top card from
your pile. You may do this as often as necessary.
NOTE: You may never have more than 3 cards in your hand at once!
END OF A ROUND
A round is over as soon as a player has no cards left in his hand and
in his own pile of ingredient cards.
RECORDING POINTS
Each ingredient card in your hand or in your own pile counts as 1
point. Points are recorded and carried over into the following rounds.
After scoring, all ingredient cards are reshuffled and dealt out evenly
as described above. Now the next round begins.
END OF THE GAME
The game is over after 3 rounds. The player with the fewest
points wins!
If there is a tie, all players with the fewest points win the game.
GAME VARIATION
Of course, you can also play more or fewer rounds!
Author: Martin Nedergaard Anderson
Illustration & Graphics: Oliver and Sandra Freudenreich
Translation: Birgit Irgant
Editing: William Niebling
© 2013 Passport Game Studios™. P.O. Box 550, Bothell, WA, 98041 USA.
All rights reserved.Voodoo Mania is a registered trademark and property of Hutter Trade GmbH and is
licensed to Passport Game Studios. Retain this package and address for future reference. Made in China.
© 2013 Hutter Trade GmbH + Co KG, Bgm.-Landmann-Platz 1-5, 89312 Guenzburg, Germany
www.huchandfriends.de
Tutorials, examples of game play, and additional information available at
www.passportgamestudios.com
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