The Rules for The Rock Collector card game

You're getting into rock collecting! But can you get the best collection? 

Time: 15-20 minutes

Recommended 2-3 players

Materials:

(24) Event Cards

(30) Rock Cards 

 

Instructions:

Shuffle the event cards and place them face down beside “the Field”

A rock collector should always take a collection bag to collect their rocks. But the problem is that it will only hold so many rocks!  The area in front of you will represent your collection bag. You may have up to 3 rock cards or "rocks" in your collection bag at one time. 

Each player draws 3 rock cards and places them face up in front of them. These are the rocks in your collection bag. 

After everyone has three cards in their collection bag, have whichever player who had the last birthday turn over and read the first of the event cards aloud. This person is our leader. The event cards will let us take rocks from our collection bag to our "home collection." Once a card is in your "home collection," it can not be removed. Each player's home collection is a face-down pile in front of them.

After reading the Event Card, the card is placed face up in a pile beside the stack of event cards. For whatever rock type the event was, each player transfers all the rocks of that event type from their collection bag in their home collection. For example, if the event card was the 'Volcanic eruption' card, then all players will get to place any igneous cards in their collection bag to their home collection. Any cards that are not that type of event, stay in your collection bag. 

Once everyone adds the cards they are permitted to their home collection, each person with less than three cards in their collection bag draws until they have three cards in front of them. 

Rotating clockwise, the next leader draws the next event card and reads it. 

This continues until there are not enough cards for everyone to have three. When there are not enough rock cards in the field for all players to fill their collection bag, all remaining rocks in the collection bags go back to the field and the game is over. 

Scoring: 

• First, count how many rocks are in your home collection. Every rock in your home collection is one point each.
• Count how many rock cycles you can make in your collection. A 'rock cycle' is a set of three cards, one metamorphic, one igneous, and one sedimentary. Each full rock cycle is worth two points. 
• The player with the most points has the best rock collection!

Score Card: