S4_board_game.pdf

shrek forever after: board game

shrek board game

Instructions

Number of players: 2-4 Ages: 6 and up

Oh, no! Rumpelstiltskin has turned Far Far Away into a place you’d want

to stay far, far away from! Help Shrek and his friends journey through the

twisted, alternate reality and make it back to their real home in the swamp.

object of the game:

Players take turns rolling the die and moving

their characters clockwise around the board,

trying to get all four characters home to the

swamp area in the middle of the board.

teams:

• There are four teams, with one player per

team (you can also play with only two or

three teams).

• Teams include a Shrek, Fiona, Puss,

and Donkey character.

• Each team has a different pattern on

the base of their characters, and on their

home base area (the area at each corner

of the board).

getting started:

Put your game board on a lat surface. Each

player places all four of their team characters

on their appropriate home base. Each player

rolls the die. Whoever rolls the highest

number gets to go irst.

game play:

The irst player rolls the die and, if they roll a

number, they move their character that many

spaces (clockwise) out of their home base.

Players continue to roll the die and move their

characters clockwise around the board.

• If you land on a space that another

team’s character is on, you can send

that character back to their home base.

If you land on a space that one of your

characters is on, share that space.

• Once a character is in one of their safe

zone spaces, they cannot be sent back

to home base, either by another player

or by rolling Rumpelstiltskin.

• A player does not have to roll the exact

number they need to move a character

from a safe zone space to the swamp.

They only need to roll at least that

number. (For example, if your character

was three spaces away from the swamp,

you could roll a three, or a four or

ive, and still be able to move into the

swamp—just as long as you rolled at

least a three.)

the die:

• The die has a 2, 3, 4, and 5 on its

sides, plus an image of Rumpelstiltskin

and Shrek.

• If you roll Rumpelstiltskin, you must

return a character to your home base.

• If you can’t move any of your characters

back to home base (because they are

on a safe zone spot—the white spots

leading to the swamp from each home

base—or none of them have left home

base yet), then you lose your turn and

the next player rolls.

• If you roll Shrek, you can send one

character from another team back to

their home base, then take their spot

using one of your own characters (even

one that is still on home base).

• If there are two characters from another

team on a spot that you want, you can

send both of them back to their

home base.

• If there are no characters on the board

that you can send back to home base,

you can send any one of your characters

to a spot in your safe zone (even a

character that is still on home base).

Winning:

The irst player to get all four

of their characters home to

the swamp in the middle of

the board, wins.