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MOON BEANS RULES

An elderly wizard was zipping and zapping around the woods collecting mushrooms for his evening stew and when he returned home he realized that his bag of magic jelly beans had a hole in it. Now those magic jelly beans are scattered all over the forest floor. Unfortunately, these were Moon Beans, these magical beans can only be seen by the light of the moon and the old wizard can’t see in the dark and there might be dangerous creatures in the woods at night. He needs you and your friends to find them and bring them back. As a reward, he will mash the jelly beans up for you to make some fun treats and magic spells for the amusement of you and your friends.

Components
• 6 Jelly Bean Menus
• Deck of 36 Recipe Cards
• 80 Jelly Bean Tokens
• 80 Stickers (76 Jelly Beans & 4 Monsters)
• 1 six-sided die
• 1 plastic bag
• 1 Large Game Bag

Setup
1. Randomly place the 60 tokens face down where all players can reach them.
2. Give each player a Jelly Bean Menu
3. Shuffle the Recipe Deck and reveal the top three cards where all players can see them.
4. Roll the six-sided to die to determine who goes first.

Players: 2 - 6
Ages: 12+
Game Time: 30 min.

Game Play
Players will take turns flipping tokens and searching for pairs of jelly beans in the following way.
Choose two tokens from the pool and flip them face up.
• If the two tokens match, then you get to keep them for your menu
• If they do not match, check the recipe cards. If they match one of the recipe cards, collect that card and flip a new recipe card face-up to replace the one you collected. If they don’t match each other or any of the revealed recipe cards, flip them back face down.
• If you flip a Monster, you must put one pair of jelly bean tokens you collected previously back into the pool face down and shuffle the pool. Remove the Monster token from the game.
After you have flipped two tokens and resolved them, play moves on to the next player.
The game ends when all 76 Jelly Bean tokens have been collected.

Scoring for the Win
Once the game ends, each player matches up the collected beans to his or her menu board to score amusement points. Each collected recipe card is also counted for amusement points. The player with the most points wins the game!

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8x R Red = Rage, Heat, Spice
8x Y Yellow = Fear, Acidity, Daylight
8x O Orange = Warmth, Fire, Dawn
8x G Green = Envy, Growth, Mint
8x B Blue = Moon, Sadness
8x V Violet = Fruity, Dusk
8x K Black = Chocolate, Mud
4x D Dots = Silly, Weird, Comical
4x S Stripes = Altrernating, Streaks
4x W Rainbow = Happiness, Childishness
4x L Lightning = Weather, Divinity, Electricity
2x C Chameleon = Substitute for Anything
4x Monster Tokens
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80 Total Tokens

The solid colors are most common with Dots, Stripes, Rainbows, & Lightning uncommon and 2 Chameleon Beans which are wild and can be substituted for anything.

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