Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Pick-up Sticks


How to play
  • Bunch all sticks together in one hand and hold them 12 inches above table.
  • Open quickly and let sticks drop
  • Pick up sticks one at the time without moving any other sticks.If another stick moves,the player losses his turn and score
  • Likeswise,if he picks up al sticks his turn ends.
  • The nest player bunches all the sticks and takes his turn
  • If a player succeds in picking up the "white"(key stick)he may use it to help him seperate and pick up other sticks that are resting on each other.

How to score

  • as each player completes his turn,totally the points he has earned for the sticks he has succesfully picked up.
  • if he succeeds in pickingup the sticks he gets bonus of "50 points".
  • If he picks up in succession a BLACK,a GREEN ,a yellow and a BLUE stick,he gets an additional "rotation bonus"of 25 points.
  • It is possible to get up 6 rotation bonuses.
  • At the ned of the game the player with the most point win or the one scoring 500 points first win.

RED-------10 POINTS

BLUE------5 POINTS

YELLOW-----4 POINTS

GREEN------3 POINTS

BLACK------2 POINTS

WHITE-------1 POINTS.