Fundex Games 3872 Manuel D’Utilisation

INSTRUCTIONS

Ages: Old enough to know better. (because the game has
been known to get a little wild!)

Number of Players: 3-6 individual players.
Or, in the true spirit of ad agencies, you can put your
advertising heads together and play as 3 or more teams.

Equipment: If you buy AdVersity™ now, we’ll include:

• 400 Ad Slogan cards
• 60 Product cards
• $49,000,000 in AdVersity™ Cash
• 6 Voters
• 13 plastic SpokesCelebrity stands
• 6 Professional SpokesAnimals
• 6 Professional SpokesPeople
• And ME, Max Madison, The Ultimate SpokesPerson!

Right, you already bought AdVersity™… I keep forgetting.

Object  of  the  Game:  Use  your  creative  wits  to  earn
AdVersity™  Cash  and  be  the  first  ad  agency  to  hire  1
SpokesAnimal,  1  SpokesPerson,  and  me,  Max  Madison,
(and I’m not cheap).

Set-Up: Typically, we don’t like to use that term in the
advertising world, but it seems to work here.

To get ready to play AdVersity™, you only need to do TWO
things:

1. Give each player– now referred to as an “agency” (if
you’re serious about this advertising thing, you gotta start
calling yourself an ad agency)–the following:

• 1 Voter
• 5 Ad Slogan cards
• $100,000 AdVersity™ Cash

2. Choose one player to be the banker. The banker has an
agency and plays the game like everyone else, but is also
responsible for all the money.

So don’t pick anyone with shifty eyes or sticky fingers.

Round 1
1. Place the stack of Product cards, face down, in the center
of the playing area and flip the top card over.

Each Product card lists four different products that
your agency can choose to sell.

If there are products listed that you don’t recognize or

understand, you are definitely too young to play this game.
Please leave the table now. Thank you.

2. Each agency then chooses one Ad Slogan from their
hand to pair up with any one of the four products on the
Product card and places the Ad Slogan card they selected
FACE-DOWN in front of them.

(Once you have done this, you may NOT change your Ad
Slogan card at any time during the round.)

An agency makes money by getting other agencies

to successfully guess which product they are selling

with the slogan they choose, so you’ll want to pick

a  slogan  and  product  that  make  sense  together…  well,  at
least  SOME  sense.  Every  slogan  used  in  this  game  is  an
ACTUAL  ad  slogan  used  in  ACTUAL  product  advertising.
(Underneath  each  slogan,  the  original  product/advertiser
is  listed…  just  because  it’s  interesting.)  Your  agency’s  job
is  to  use  that  slogan  to  advertise  an  entirely  DIFFERENT
product… and you’re going to need to be creative to make
some of them work.

3. The youngest agency (player) is the first Advertiser.

Sorry, youth RULES in advertising, and it ain’t no different
here. But just like your youth, you’ll get over it.

4. The Advertiser  turns the Ad Slogan  card  he  chose  face
up,  reads  the  slogan  aloud,  and  places  it  by  the  Product
card  to  form  a  discard  pile.  The  Advertiser  then  secretly
turns his Voter wheel to display the number of the product
he  is  advertising,  and  places  the  Voter  FACE-DOWN.

5. The other agencies each decide which of the four products
the Advertiser is trying to sell them, turn their Voter wheels
to the corresponding number, and place them face down in
front of themselves.

In advertising, there’s an expression – “Know your

audience.” And that applies well in this game. You’ll

guess right a lot more often if you think like the

people you’re playing with. For example, two days ago your
sister just had that hideous mole removed from her tongue,
so she might subconsciously still be thinking of things like
tongue depressors, lollipops, or wart remover.

6. When all the agencies have made their guesses, the
Advertiser “presents” his slogan and product to the group.

The Advertiser turns over his Voter Wheel revealing the