Pierre Papier Morpion

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

Once the lights have gone out and the last employees have left, the stores on the shopping street come alive. Toys, tools... all the goods leave their packaging to enjoy the night! Among them, the blue gang and the orange gang 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!

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 makes his or her choice from the remaining options, and the first player concludes the round by picking up the last available token or placing his or her 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 items = 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.

Great depth of play