Grounded for Life Board Game: Rules for How to Play

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Setup

Sort the cards by the color on the back of the cards.
Each player draws ten red cards. You can look at your own cards, but you shouldn’t show them to the other players.
The youngest player starts the game as the judge.

How to Play Grounded for Life

Each round begins with the current judge drawing the top blue card from the deck. They will read the card out loud to all of the players. Then place the card on the table so all of the players can see it.

The blue card for this round — This is the blue card for the current round. Players will try to find a card from their hand that fits well with “The last movie that made me cry was about a little girl and her ________.”

Everyone except for the judge then has to choose one of the red cards from their hand to play this round. When choosing which card to play, you are looking for a card that will be funny played along with the blue card. Since the judge makes the final decision, you want to pick a card that you think the judge will think is funny.

Playing a card — This player decided to play their clown shoes card as they think it will be funny when combined with the prompt for the round.

When you have chosen your card for the round, you will place it facedown on the table. Once everyone has chosen their card for the round, the judge picks up all of the played cards. Without looking at the cards, they will shuffle the submitted cards so they don’t know who played each card.

The judge then reads out the blue card and then each of the submitted red cards. After reading off all of the played cards, they will choose which of the cards they think is the funniest when paired with the blue card. The player that submitted the red card that the judge chose gets to take the blue card used this round.

Choosing the best submitted card — For this round the players have submitted five red cards. The judge now has to decide which of the cards they think is funniest when combined with the premise.

Everyone who played a card this round then draws a new red card so they have a total of ten red cards in their hand. The player to the left of the judge becomes the judge for the next round.

Winning the Game

The game ends when one of the players have acquired enough blue cards. The number of blue cards needed to win the game depends on the numbers of players.

# of Players	Blue Cards Needed to Win
3	7
4-5	5
6-10	4

When a player has acquired enough blue cards, they win Grounded for Life.

Winning Grounded For Life — In a six player game, this player has acquired four blue cards. They have won the game.

If you would like to play a shorter game, the players can agree before the game starts to a lower number of blue cards required to win the game.

Components

100 Blue Cards
300 Red Cards
Instructions

Year: 2020 | Publisher: Elliot Tebele

Genres: Family, Party

Ages: 8+ | Number of Players: 3-20 | Length of Game: 30-90 minutes

Difficulty: Light | Strategy: Light | Luck: Moderate

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Written By:

Eric Mortensen

Eric Mortensen is an owner and head writer on Geeky Hobbies since 2014. He is an avid board game player and collector with over 3,000 board and card games in his collection. Since 2014 he has written more than 1,100 board game how to play guides.