Muffin Time is a card game built on jokes from the asdfmovie cartoons. Everyone races to be the first to start their own turn holding exactly 10 cards and announce "It's Muffin Time!" If nobody can stop you, you win on the spot.
It sounds easy, but almost every card makes someone draw more, lose cards or swap hands, so hand sizes go up and down all the time, and whoever gets close to 10 always gets ganged up on first.
Card types
Type
When you play it
What it does
Action
On your turn
Does what the card says, such as make someone draw, discard or swap cards
Counter
Any time, even on someone else's turn
Cancels a card someone just played, or cancels a Muffin Time call
Trap
Placed in front of you on your turn
Waits until its condition happens, then goes off at once
A Counter can itself be countered, so sometimes there is a chain back and forth; the last card played wins.
Setup
Shuffle all the cards and place them face down in the middle as the draw pile.
Deal each player the number of cards the rulebook says (usually a few, well short of 10).
Pick a first player and go clockwise.
A turn
Check your hand first. If you start your turn with exactly 10 cards, call "It's Muffin Time!" Everyone gets a chance to Counter you; if nobody can, you win.
If you are not at 10, do one thing: draw a card, or play one Action or Trap card.
End your turn. If you hold more than 10 cards, discard down to 10 (the basic rule; check your edition), then pass to the next player.
On other players' turns you can still play Counters at any time, and your Traps go off the moment their condition happens.
Tips to win
Don't show your hand too early. At 9 cards everyone targets you. Sit at 7 or 8, then jump to 10 in one move.
Keep a Counter. Use it when someone calls Muffin Time, or when a nasty card comes your way.
Traps are a threat. Just having one in front of you makes people think twice before targeting you.
Read cards out loud. Half the fun is the jokes on the cards; doing the voices makes it funnier.
Who it is for
Friends who like messing with each other and don't take winning too seriously.
People who have seen asdfmovie get the jokes most, but anyone can play.
All the cards are in English, so someone at the table should read English comfortably.
MaliWikis ไม่ได้เกี่ยวข้องกับ Big Potato Games หรือ TomSka ชื่อ Muffin Time และ asdfmovie เป็นของเจ้าของ หน้านี้อธิบายกติกาด้วยคำของเราเอง ไม่ได้คัดลอกคู่มือ กติกาแต่ละรุ่นอาจต่างกัน ให้ยึดคู่มือในกล่องเป็นหลัก
MaliWikis is not affiliated with Big Potato Games or TomSka. Muffin Time and asdfmovie belong to their owners. This page explains the rules in our own words and does not copy the rulebook. Editions can differ, so the rulebook in your box comes first.
