How to play
Stacks of fun!
(2 or more players)
OBJECT OF THE GAME
The object of the game is to keep adding to a tower
of blocks without making them fall over. If you keep
doing this, you'll win!
PREPARING TO PLAY
Shuffle the cards, and place them face down on the
table, with the blocks and timer. Place all the tokens
in a pile, off to the side. Then decide how many tokens
a player must win to be the overall winner. Usually
this will be around 3 or 4, and this should take around
15 minutes to play.
PLAYING THE GAME
The player whose birthday is next, goes first. Wind
the timer back to 2 minutes, and start it, The first
player turns over the top card. If the card shows one
block, place it on the table as it appears on the card.
If 2 or 3 blocks are shown, place them on the table,
on top of each other as shown.
The next player then turns over the next card, and
places the number of blocks shown, on top of the
block/s already there. Where the card has more
than one block, these must be added one by one.
The tower of blocks cannot be straightened up during
a round. Play continues in this way, until someone
causes the tower of blocks to fall over, or until the
timer stops.
SCORING
When a player causes the blocks to fall over, or if the
timer stops while a player is having his/her turn, the
player loses that round. The other players each get
one token. All players (including the one who lost
the last round) play the next round, with the loser
going first. The scoring is the same.
THE WINNER
When a player reaches the agreed number of tokens,
he/she is the overall winner. If there is a tie, the tied
players play another another round to find the winner.
SPECIAL CARDS
No blocks are added - the order of play
reverses.
No blocks are added, and play moves
immediately to the next player.
The block shown must be dropped (not
placed) on top of the tower of blocks. It
can be dropped from very close, but the
player Must let go of the block before it
touches the top block.
You must pick up the highest yellow
block (balancing the blocks above it), and
place under it a gray block. Then replace
the yellow block (and the blocks above
it) down on the gray block. If you drop
any blocks, you lose!
(If the blocks on the card are not in the
tower yet, the same player just plays the
next card)