Pierre Papier Morpion

A fast, colorful, fun and original game of atmosphere and collection for two players!

Once the lights go out and the last employees leave, the stores on the shopping street come alive. Toys, tools... all the goods leave their packaging to enjoy the night! Among them, the blue and orange gangs wage a fierce war to conquer the most prized shops and extend their influence.

The two gangs are currently coveting a newly opened stationery shop: you'll have to choose sides, and fight to take

control of its shop window!

The game

A game of Rock, Paper, Tic-Tac-Toe is played over 9 rounds, combining rock-paper-scissors and tic-tac-toe. In each round, winning a rock-paper-scissors duel allows you to choose your rewards first: either collect items, or position a member of your gang on the tic-tac-toe grid. It's up to you to choose wisely to earn the most points, and take control of the shop window!

How do you play the game?

Each round begins with a rock-paper-scissors duel, with one of the squares on the game board at stake, starting with the top-left square. The winner of the duel then chooses his first reward. He can :

Take the token from the display case which is face up

Take the token from the display case which is face-down

Place a token of his or her color on the square

The loser of the duel then chooses from the remaining options, and the first player concludes the round by picking up the last available token, or by placing his token on the square if both tokens have been taken. Rounds continue until the display case has been completely emptied of tokens and filled with the players' tokens.

Collection and score

Choosing a particular token is of course all about collecting. Each type of object collected scores points according to the (diabolical!) following distribution:

1 object = 1 point

2 identical objects = 2 points

3 identical objects = 5 points

4 identical objects = 3 points

5 identical items = 8 points

Yes, you read that right, it's better to have 3 objects than 4. 4 means you have the will to win, 5 means you get big points, but there's a risk of disappointment, as some of the tokens are discarded at the start of each game.

Other ways of scoring points include lining up counters of your own color in tic-tac-toe fashion, collecting "+2 points" tokens... or getting 3 crowns, which means immediate victory!

Great depth of play

Pierre Papier Morpion impresses with its depth of gameplay in a game as fast-paced and fun as rock-paper-scissors. Each round of play involves drastic choices - whether you win or lose the round - in order to maximize your turn.

For the most seasoned players, two variants for expert players bring new rules and new tokens to vary the pleasures, with always more challenge to build collections!

Box contents

1 board

18 gang tokens

30 miscellaneous tokens

1 rules booklet