Fisher-Price N1388 Instruction Sheet

What’s in the Box

• 60 Symbol Cards

• Travel Tin

• Quick Play Rules

Card Game

2 Players

Ages 7 and Up

Setting up

1. Shuffle the cards and deal them, face

down, to form two equal draw piles.

2. Place one draw pile in front of each

player.

3. Place the top card from each draw

pile, face down, between the players.
These cards should be placed next to
each other so they are accessible to
both players.

4. Each player takes the top three cards

from his or her draw pile to form a
hand. Players may look at the cards
in their hand.

The Object

Be the first player
out of cards.

Playing the Game

1. Players simultaneously turn over the

cards that they placed in the center
of the table, and the game begins.

2. Without taking turns, players race to

play cards from their hand, face up,
on either of the center piles. To play
a card, it must match at least one
characteristic (color, shape, or count)
of the card on which it is played.

Hand

CENTER PILES

Draw Pile

For example, a card with four yellow stars could be played on any card with yellow symbols (color),
or on a card with any number of stars (shape), or on a card with four symbols of any kind (count).

3. As cards are played, players refill their

hand by taking cards from their own
draw pile. Players may have up to
three cards in their hand at any time.

4. The game continues until one of the

players is completely out of cards
from his or her hand and draw pile.

Draw Pile

Hand

PLAYER

Winning the Game

The first player completely out of cards
wins BLINK®.

BLINK® Game Designer: Reinhard Staupe

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Notes

1. A player may not play more than one
card at a time.

2. On the rare occasion when neither
player can match either of the top
cards on the two center piles, play
is paused and—

•if both players have cards left in
their draw piles, each player takes
the top card from his or her draw
pile, places it face up on one of the
center piles, and play resumes.

•if one, or both, of the players has
depleted his or her draw pile,
each player picks one card from
his or her hand, and simultaneously
places them face up on one of the
center piles, and play resumes.

•if each player has only one card
left, the game ends in a tie.

3. Because
game, many players prefer to play a
best-of-three or best-of-five match to
determine the winner.

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BLINK

is the world’s fastest

Card Game

More Ways to Play BLINK

Three Player BLINK

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BLINK

can be played as a three-player

game with the following changes:

1. Shuffle the cards and deal them, face
down, to form three equal draw piles.

2. Place one draw pile in front of each
player.

3. Each player places the top card from
his or her draw pile, face down, so
that it is an equal distance between
the player and the player to the right.
The cards will form a triangle and
each player will have a card to the
right and to the left.

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4. Each player can play cards from his
or her hand onto the pile to the left
or the pile to the right.

Four or More Players /
Tournament Play

With four or more players, BLINK® can
be played as a single-elimination tour­nament. To advance in the tournament,
a player must win two-out-of-three
games against an opponent.

For Balanced Play

If one player is significantly faster than
another, the faster player can start the
game with more cards.