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TRADING CARD GAME

Choose your faction, charge your bots and hack your way to domination!

Mr. Bee
Sparkly
Buttons
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Planck

About the Game

7+
AGES
2-4
PLAYERS
Infinity
FUN

Wacky Robots the Card Game is a card game for 2 to 4 players. The last player with robots onboard wins the game!

Control three unique Wacky Robots, each coming with an upgradable robot card, a special faction card and 5 neutral component cards with explosive side effects.

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Planck's robot card
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Luminobots faction card
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Component card

During the game you will try to balance between:

•Damaging your opponent's robots or protecting your own with side effects.
•Building component combinations to upgrade and activate your robots' powerful abilities.

Setting it Up

  1. Choose 3 robots to play with and place them on the board in front of you with their basic sides up. Make sure that you have at least 1 robot with an action ability.
  2. Create your deck by adding:
    1 faction card for each robot, matching their color.
    5 component cards for each robot, with components matching the components required for upgrading said robot.
  3. Shuffle your deck and place it face down near your robots. Your play area should look like this:
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card_back
fred_2
charlie_2
marv_2
card_back
robby_2
resistron_2
sparkly_2
discard_pile

Play area

Player Turn

Each player draws 3 cards at the beginning of the game and the youngest player goes first. On your turn you will do the following:

  1. 1Play a card from your hand by putting it in the middle of the board.
  2. 2If your hand is empty, draw 2 cards from your deck.
  3. 3Starting from the top, perform all side effects except for Shields.
  4. 4Attach the component card to any 1 of your robots by tucking the card beneath it so that only Shields and components can be seen.
  5. 5If possible, upgrade or activate a robot.
  6. 6Discard any attached component cards from your robots that you deem unnecessary.

No cards in your deck?

Shuffle your discard pile and use it as your new deck.

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Fred
Fred's robot card

Life Points

Each robot begins the game with 10 life points. You can track a robot's life points directly on its card using a common household item, such as a paper clip. If the tracker needs to go below 1, the robot is removed from the game.

Component Cards

Side effects can be found on the left of each faction and component card.

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Component card showing side effects on the left and the component in the top-right corner

Components:

CapacitorCAPACITOR
ResistorRESISTOR
InductorINDUCTOR
SemiconductorSEMICONDUCTOR

Effects:

ShieldSHIELD

After other side effects are performed, attach the card with a shield to a robot. When this robot is attacked you may choose to spend a shield to negate 1 point of damage. To spend a shield tuck the card further to fully conceal it. If all shields are spent on a card, discard it.

Planck spending Shields:

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component_planck
Before the attack
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After spending a shield to negate 1 damage
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After spending the last shield to negate damage, the card is moved to the discard pile
DamageDAMAGE

Select an opponent's robot as the target. The robot's owner may either spend a shield from the robot or reduce its life points by 1 for each damage dealt. All damage from 1 card targets only 1 robot.

DrawDRAW

Draw 1 card from your deck. If this was the last card in your hand, draw 2 cards because your hand was empty, and then draw another card for this side effect.

PlayPLAY

Play another card from your hand.

RepairREPAIR

Choose one of your robots and increase its life points by 1 by sliding the paper clip up the track. The clip cannot go above 10.

TauntTAUNT

While attached to a robot, opponents may only target that robot. Actions that deal damage to all robots are not affected by taunt. If multiple robots of the same player have taunt attached, then the opponents may choose a target between them.

BreakBREAK

Select an opponent's robot as a target. Select a card attached to the targeted robot to discard it. You must select a robot with taunt if any has it.

BlindBLIND

An opponent has to discard 1 card from their hand.

OptimiseOPTIMISE

Optimise can be used instead of any component.

Faction Cards

Wacky Robots are divided into 5 factions: Intellicorp, Luminobots, Mechanicon, Rayforge, and Synthicate.

Each faction has its own color, which matches the color on the robot cards, making it easy for kids to recognize and collect their favorites!

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Luminobots card
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Intellicorp card
faction_mechanicon
Mechanicon card
faction_rayforge
RayForge card
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Synthicate card

Luminobots

Luminobots are eccentric artists, excelling in creating visual spectacle utilizing complex light shows that amaze and distract.

Intellicorp

Intellicorp is an organization of robots equipped with high-quality sensors and advanced microchips that make them perfect as spies.

Mechanicon

Mechanicon is a union of worker bots who specialize in physical tasks such as moving and lifting heavy objects.

RayForge

RayForge is a guild of laser-wielding craftbots, masters of both destruction and construction.

Synthicate

Lively party makers, the Synthicate members are sound synthesizers who specialize in producing music to entertain and inspire.

Upgrading and Activating Wacky Robots Cards

After you have played your cards, you may choose to spend components from any of your robots to either upgrade or activate them. Components are spent by discarding component cards attached to the robot that contain all the required components.

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Upgrading Fred
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Fred
Cards with required components are moved to the discard pile

Upgrading a Robot

After you have spent the required components, you may execute the action as detailed on the robot's card.

Activating a Robot

After you have spent the required components, you may execute the action as detailed on the robot's card.

Meet the Wacky Robots

Some robots have actions that need to be activated by spending required components, and some robots have PASSIVE abilities that may be activated by other events in the game. Below is the list of all robots, component cards allowed in their decks and their abilities. 2+ Inductors means that the robot must have at least 2 Inductor cards in their deck.

Fred

Fred

Cards:Intellicorp
+1 Semiconductors
+1 Inductors

ACTION

Search for any card in your deck or discard pile and put it in your hand. Shuffle your discard pile and your deck together and use it as your new deck.

Dusty

Dusty

Cards:Intellicorp
+1 Semiconductors
+1 Inductors

PASSIVE

Whenever an opponent plays or attaches a card, draw 1 card for each Semiconductor component on it.

Robby

Robby

Cards:Intellicorp
+1 Capacitors
+1 Inductors

PASSIVE

Whenever an opponent plays or attaches a card, draw 1 card for each Capacitor component on it.

Planck

Planck

Cards:Luminobots
+1 Semiconductors
+1 Inductors

ACTION

Deal 1 damage to all opponent's robots.

Marv

Marv

Cards:Luminobots
+1 Semiconductors
+1 Resistors

ACTION

Deal 1 damage for each Semiconductor component on cards attached to your robots.

Artemis

Artemis

Cards:Luminobots
+1 Semiconductors
+1 Inductors

ACTION

Deal 2 damage to an opponent's robot, ignoring all of their shields.

Hertz

Hertz

Cards:Synthicate
+1 Capacitors
+1 Inductors

ACTION

Deal 1 damage for each Capacitor component on cards attached to your robots.

Buttons

Buttons

Cards:Synthicate
+1 Capacitors
+1 Inductors

PASSIVE

Use the action of any of your other robots.

Harald

Harald

Cards:Synthicate
+1 Capacitors
+1 Inductors

PASSIVE

When attacked: Spend any card attached to Harald to negate 1 damage.

Bob

Bob

Cards:Rayforge
+1 Capacitors
+2 Semiconductors

ACTION

Repair up to 3 hit points to any of your robots in any combination.
Example: You may repair one robot by 3, or three robots by 1, or one robot by 1 and another by 2.

Resistron

Resistron

Cards:Rayforge
+1 Capacitors
+1 Resistors

ACTION

Deal 3 damage to one enemy robot.

Capacitron

Capacitron

Cards:Rayforge
+2 Capacitors
+1 Semiconductors

ACTION

Deal 2 damage to one enemy robot.

Mr. Bee

Mr. Bee

Cards:Mechanicon
+1 Inductors
+1 Resistors

PASSIVE

When attacked: Spend required components to evade all damage dealt until the end of the current opponent's turn.

Charlie

Charlie

Cards:Mechanicon
+1 Inductors
+1 Resistors

PASSIVE

Once per turn. When spending components: Spend 1 component from an opponent's robot as if it were attached to one of your robots.

Sparkly

Sparkly

Cards:Mechanicon
+1 Inductors
+1 Resistors

ACTION

Double break. Discard 2 cards attached to any opponent's robots.

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