The Grasshopper & the Ant is the fourth title in Purple Brain
Games' "Tales & Games" series, each of which comes packaged in a
book-shaped box. In this game, players take turns playing the part of
the industrious ants and the grasshopper content to sponge off the labor
of the ants.
The Grasshopper & the Ant includes two ways to play, but the
heart of both is the same. At the start of the game, lay out 16 (of the
48) path cards in a 4x4 grid; each path card shows one of four types of
landscapes. The ant player places six ants on these cards, one ant per
card, with the ants forming a chain (as in real life), then secretly
chooses one type of terrain on which at least one ant stands. The
grasshopper player then stands with one of the ants, and if the
grasshopper chose the same landscape as the ant player, the grasshopper
takes all the path cards of this type on which an ant stands; if the
grasshopper chose incorrectly, then the ant player takes these path
cards. Either way, you then refill the 4x4 grid. The ant player keeps
playing until she finally wins path cards, then the next player in
clockwise order controls the ants. (In winter mode, the third and fourth
players control red ants and receive a random path card if they match
the choice of the ant player.)
In autumn mode, players score path cards immediately, with each type
being tracked independently; path cards that feature insects are saved
for a endgame bonus. As soon as a player maxes out two scoring tracks,
the game ends and whoever has the most points wins.
In winter mode, players keep the path cards they collect in order to buy
provision cards (worth one victory point), which cost particular
combinations of path types. In this mode, when you win a path card that
features an insect, you can claim another card in the grid that features
the same insect. Collect both provision cards of the same type, and you
score a bonus VP. The first player to collect 4 VPs wins.
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