Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

01Game presentation

Taco Chat Bouc Cheese Pizza mixes a suite of five words and images that arrive in another order. You have to listen, watch and react at the right time. The overall difficulty is very easy: the essential is in the attention and reflexes.

This chapter follows the classic 64-card Blue Orange rulebook on the official website. It covers the original edition. The Verso and Chaton editions have separate rules. The deal below follows the official twelve-page booklet. Some older rulebooks deal differently.

02Equipment requirements

• 64 special game cards, including the five regular images and Gorille, Marmotte and Narval cards.
• A stable surface accessible to all hands.

The drawings and words of the book are schematics of explanation, not cards to mix with the box.

03The purpose of the game

Get rid of all your cards, then be the first to react correctly during a match or special card. Laying your last card does not automatically give victory.

04Preparing the game

1. Mix the 64 cards.
2. At 2, 3, 4 or 5 players, give each one 12 cards. At 6, give them 10. At 7 or 8, give them 8.
3. Put the undistributed cards back in the box. Each person keeps his pile hidden in front of him, without looking at it.
4. The distributor starts the first round and then plays in the clockwise direction. Leave the center free.

05How to play?

Say a word and return a card

The first takes the card from the top of his Stock, returns it to the others and places it in the center by saying "Taco". The next one puts his card by saying "Chat". Then come "Bouch", "Cheese", " Pizza", before starting again at "Taco".

The sequel continues from one player to another. You don't say the name of the image you discover: you say the next word of the sequel. Return the card to the outside so you don't see it before the others.

When do we have to type?

If the new image corresponds to the word spoken, everyone taps on the central pile. On a Pizza card accompanied by the word " Pizza", for example, it is the signal. The last hand, therefore above the others, belongs to the person who picks up the whole pile. She places these cards face hidden under her Stock.

This person opens the next handle by saying "Taco" again. The central pile is empty and the rest goes back from the beginning. There is no mixing or sorting of recovered cards.

The three special cards

• Gorilla: hit her chest, then hit the battery.
• Marmot: hit the table with both hands, then type on the pile.
• Narval: Form a horn over its head with both hands, then tap on the battery.

The special gesture is mandatory regardless of the word announced. Misstep or finish last makes the battery pick up. Do not type directly by jumping the action.

Errors and empty Stock

Taping without a signal, starting the gesture and then holding back, forgetting his word, making mistakes in the sequel, or delaying because his turn has not been recognized has the battery picked up. The wrong person then opens a new handle with "Taco". The notice does not arbitrate all cases of faults perfectly simultaneous: designate the first observable fault and, if it is indistinguishable, agree to a separation before starting again.

When you have no more cards, you stay in the circle: in your turn, you pronounce the following word without putting a card. The word so pronounced does not create a correspondence with the old card left in the center. It takes a new card revealed by someone to trigger the next signal.

You keep typing on the real signals. If you're the last one or make a mistake, you pick up and you have a picket again. If you're not first but not at fault, you stay without cards and try on the next signal.

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06An example of a game

Alice says "Taco" and shows a Cat: no one taps. Bob says "Chat" and shows a Bouc: we wait. Chloe says "Bouch" and reveals a Bouc. All type; Bob is last. He picks up the three cards under his pocket and starts again with "Taco".

Later, a Narval card comes out while Alice announces "Cheese". Everyone first forms the horn, then taps. Bob taps directly without horn: it's a mistake, even if it was fast.

Chloe doesn't have any more cards. In turn, she says " Pizza" without turning anything back; the old Pizza in the center doesn't trigger anything. On the next turn, Alice says "Taco" and returns a Taco. If Chloe hits the first one, she wins.

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07How can I win?

The first player whose Stock is empty and who types the first correctly on a match or after the special good gesture wins immediately. No points are added. A clearly lower hand on the stack designates the first; if two people without cards are actually indistinguishable, agree to continue until the next signal rather than invent an official ranking.

08Errors to avoid

• Name the image instead of the word of the sequel.
• Go back to "Taco" after each card: we only do it again after a pile picked up.
• Tap the word of a person without maps: no new images are revealed.
• Forget the gesture of a special or believe that the last card is enough to win.

09Tips for starting

Recite the suite together before the first round and try the three gestures. Keep a regular pace. Look at the main drawing rather than the small details: their role is to distract you.