HornyBirds A game by Les Inkwell and Aksel Flack Horny Birds is a game in the poker family (Bacillo Ludum) for 2 to 10 players. Background: It's twilight in the woods. You're a male bird. You are horny. You must sing to attract female birds. The male bird that sings the most beautiful song get to copulate with the most female birds. The male bird that has copulated with the most female birds at the end of the season, wins. Stanza cards: The cards you play with represents parts of the songs that male birds sing, and is therefore called Stanza cards. Stanza cards consist of three elements: Numbers (notes), symbols and colors. Numbers The numbers represent the melody, and appears on the card using notes. There are six different notes. They are actually possible to sing if you know notes. Symbols The symbols represent the theme of the song. There are five symbols: - Heart: The male birds sing about how good lovers they are ... - Feathers: The male birds sing about how handsome they are ... - Nest: The male birds sing about how good they are to build nests ... - Worm: The male birds sing about how good they are at collecting food ... - Compass Rose: The male birds sing about how good they are to navigate their way to warmer climes when winter comes ... Colors Reperesents different moods in the song. Each song has its own color. There are four colors: Red, Blue, Yellow and Green. Female bird tokens There are four types of female bird tokens: Dark red (10), red (36), pink (12) and green (12). Dark red = 3 points Red = 2 points Pink = 1 points Green = -3 points Preparation before the game: - The 120 stanza cards are shuffled. - The pieces are put in a bag or purse. - A 20-sided dice is placed on the game table. You can also use three six-sided dice. The first round of the game: He who has the most experience with the game, or the one who demonstrably have the most knowledge of ornithology, shuffles the 120 stanzas cards. The same player throws the 20-sided dice, draws that many tokens from the purse and places them face up on the middle of the table. This is the pot for this round.
The same player hands out eight cards to each player, face down. The players look at the stanza cards they've been dealt and strive to create a good concert for the day consisting of 1 to 8 cards. The concert has one or more songs; cards of the same color belong to the same song in the concert. Once a player has made a good combination for the concert he put it face down on the table. The remaining cards is saved for the next round. When everyone has put a combination face down in front of himself, all players turn their cards simultaneously, and then together decides who has the best song and wins the round, who has the second best and 3rd best, etc. The best song is the one with most different themes, ie the one with the highest number of different symbols. If two players have the same number of different symbols in their best song, then look at who has the highest number of different notes in the concert. If this should also be a tie, compare the next best song in the concerts with regard to symbols, then the third and so on. The winner of the round gets half of the tokens in the pot (rounded up), second place gets half of what is left of the pot (rounded up), etc ... until the pot is split. Whoever takes from the pot first can of course take the tokens that are worth the most. Those who take a green female bird token should take a shot of liquor if avaliable, since these are birds with the flu. Should any players have equally good concerts, distributed the rest of the pot between them, and remove any pieces (put back in the purse) so they get the same number of points. All used stanza cards are put face up in a discard pile. The further game rounds: The winner of the previous round throws the dice and takes that many pieces from the purse to the pot of the round. The players draw cards so they again have 8 cards each. The players make concerts and determine winners as in the first round. This is repeated until there are no more tokens in the purse. Then the season is over and the winner is the one with the most points.