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A player may not choose to place no card on his turn. If the only card a player can place will help his opponent, he must place it. The players place the cards so that they overlap, but do not cover cards previously placed. nus, the players must place 2 blue, 1 yellow, and 1 red balloon cards o n each side of the tile. The colors of the victory cubes on a balloon hop tile determine the colors of the balloon cards that must be placed on each side of the tile.Įxample: there are 2 blue, 1 yellow, and 1 red victory cubes on balloon hop tile number 4. The number of victory cubes on a balloon hop tile determines the number of balloon cards that must be placed on each side of the tile. Then, he draws the top-most card from the supply and adds it to his hand, ending his turn. He may place the card on his side of the tile or on his opponent's side of the tile. On a player's turn, he selects a card from his hand and places it face up next to the balloon hop tile of his choice.

Place the 5 trophy cards face up near the board. If, during the game, the supply is exhausted, shuffle the discard stack and place it face down as the new supply. Place the remaining balloon cards face down as a supply next to the board. Each player takes his cards into his hand, keeping them secret from his opponent during the game. Shuffle the balloon cards face down and deal eight cards to each player. Randomly draw victory cubes from the bag and place them on the balloon hop tiles: 1 on tile number 1, 2 on tile number 2, 3 on tile number 3, and 4 on tile number 4.

Place victory cubes on the balloon hop tiles. Place the 45 victory cubes in the bag and mix them. Place the 4 balloon hop tiles in a row between the two players as shown below: The first player to take 3 of the 5 trophy cards is the winner! Setup Players place their balloon cards next to the balloon hop tiles, trying to collect victory cubes in the right colors so they can claim trophy cards. The number on the balloon shows how many victory cubes of this color a player must have to claim the trophy. There are trophies in the 5 balloon colors.

45 victory cubes (13 red, 11 yellow, 9 green, 7 blue, and 5 gray).

45 balloon cards (13 red, 11 yellow, 9 green, 7 blue, and 5 gray).

Players usually play their balloons on their side of the hops, but winds (and cunning) can cause them to play on their opponent's side, a move that can ruin their opponent's plans. Players play their high-valued balloons on the mountains and their low- valued balloons on the plains. The players play their balloons on mountain or plain hops. The first player to earn 3 trophy cards is the winner!Įach player has a hand of eight balloon cards. Players may even trade 3 otherwise useless cubes for 1 they can use. When a player has collected enough cubes of a given color, he earns the trophy card for that color. When you have 4 contestants left, this is the semi final round, the 2 winners will face off in the grand final.In Balloon Cup, the players compete in several short balloon flights (hops) to collect the colored cubes associated with each hop. Each time a contestant wins a stack off he or she moves onto the next round.

For this you will need 20 cups, if you only have 10 cups, you will have to do timed runs, fastest of the 2 moves on. You can either see if 1 more player will join, or eliminate the slowest contestant.įor the rest of the tournament, do 'stack offs' between the contestants.

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*IMPORTANT* The chart to download will only work with an even amount of people, so if you have an uneven amount you have 2 options. Now, fill out the flow chart pitting the number 1 against the slowest, 2nd fastest against the 2nd slowest and so on until completed. Order the contestants from fastest average time to slowest.

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For those who don't know how to work out average add the 3 times together, and divide the total by 3.

Once all the times are in, work out the average time for each contestant. The first round is a speed round, each contestant gets 3 timed runs, they must stack and pack away all 10 cups as fast as they can. You can download the 2 charts (shown in the pictures) as Word documents. Easy to keep track of, and the slower stackers aren't massively disadvantaged going into the first round. I would recommend playing a simple elimination style tournament round.