Choose Your Challenge: 3 Ways to Play

🎮 Sparkle Chase – Game 1: The Chase is On! (Spoons Variation)

🧠 Objective

  • Be the first to collect 4 matching gem cards and grab a Lunar Stone from the center.
  • Each player starts with 11 points and loses 1 point if they miss a Lunar Stone.
  • Last player standing wins!

👥 Players

2 to 11 players

📦 What You Need

  • 🃏 Gem Cards: Use 1 set of matching gems (4 cards) per player
    (Example: 5 players = choose 5 gem types = 20 cards total)
  • 💣 Remove the Dynamite Card
  • 🎲 Lunar Stones: Use one fewer stone than players
    (Example: 5 players = 4 Lunar Stones)

🔧 Setup

  1. Remove the Dynamite Card from the deck.
  2. Select gem sets: One matching set (4 cards) for each player.
  3. Shuffle the selected cards and deal 4 cards to each player.
  4. Place the Lunar Stones in the center.
  5. Everyone starts with 11 points.

▶️ How to Play

✅ All players simultaneously pass one card to their right.
✅ Keep passing, aiming to collect 4 of a kind.
✅ When you get 4 matching gems, grab a Lunar Stone—quietly!
✅ Everyone else must grab one too—fast!
❌ The last player without a Lunar Stone loses 1 point.
🔁 Shuffle and play the next round.

🏆 Winning the Game

Keep playing until someone reaches 0 points. The player with the most points left is crowned the 💎 Master of Gems! 💎

💣 Boom Pass – Game 2: Don’t Get Stuck with the Dynamite! (Old Maid Variation)

🧠 Objective

  • Pair up matching gem cards and avoid being the last player holding the Dynamite Card!
  • Everyone starts with 11 points. If you’re left with the Dynamite at the end of a round, you lose 1 point.

👥 Players

3 to 8 players

📦 What You Need

  • 🃏 All 49 cards, including the Dynamite Card (12 gem types × 4 cards = 48 + 1 Dynamite)

🔧 Setup

  1. Shuffle the entire deck, including the Dynamite Card.
  2. Deal all cards evenly to players.
    • It’s okay if some players have 1 more card than others.
  3. Players look at their hands and immediately discard any matching gem pairs
    • Place pairs face-up in the center.

▶️ How to Play

✅ On your turn, draw 1 card from the player to your left (without looking).
✅ If the card makes a pair, place the pair face-up in the center.
✅ If not, keep the card and wait for your next turn.
🔁 Keep taking turns, drawing and discarding pairs.
💣 Eventually, only the Dynamite Card will remain.

❌ The player left holding the Dynamite Card at the end of the round loses 1 point.

🏆 Winning the Game

Play multiple rounds until a player reaches 0 points. The player with the most points remaining is crowned the 💎 Master of Gems!

💎 Gem Hunt – Game 3: Match, Flip, and Dodge the Dynamite! (Memory Game with a Twist)

🧠 Objective

  • Flip cards to find matching gem pairs and collect them into your treasure pile. But watch out—if you flip the Dynamite Card, you lose all your collected pairs!
  • The player with the most pairs at the end wins!

👥 Players

2 to 6 players

📦 What You Need

  • 🃏 All 49 cards, including the Dynamite Card

🔧 Setup

  1. Shuffle all cards, including the Dynamite Card.
  2. Lay them face-down in a grid pattern on the table.
    • Make sure all cards are visible and evenly spaced.

▶️ How to Play

✅ On your turn, flip over 2 cards.

  • If they are a matching gem pair, keep them in your treasure pile and take another turn.
  • If they don’t match, flip them back face-down and end your turn.
    💣 If you flip the Dynamite Card, you must:
  • Return the Dynamite Card face-down into the grid.
  • Discard all pairs from your treasure pile!

🔁 Play continues clockwise until all gem pairs have been found.

🏆 Winning the Game

Once all pairs are collected, the player with the most gem pairs in their treasure pile is crowned the 💎 Master of Gems!