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The document outlines the rules for an advanced card game called 'The Bull and The Bear,' designed for 4 or more players. Players collect commodities and can use wild cards (the Bull) for scoring, while the Bear card incurs penalties. The objective is to reach a set number of points, with various strategies for trading and scoring outlined throughout the game play instructions.

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The document outlines the rules for an advanced card game called 'The Bull and The Bear,' designed for 4 or more players. Players collect commodities and can use wild cards (the Bull) for scoring, while the Bear card incurs penalties. The objective is to reach a set number of points, with various strategies for trading and scoring outlined throughout the game play instructions.

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ADVANCED GAME Ex: If you collect

The Bull is a wild card! You can use it as any


commodity. If you have eight of a kind and the Bull,
Recommended for 4+ players Oranges, you get you score the points marked on that commodity. If
50 points.
Shuffle the Bull and the Bear cards into you have nine of a kind and the Bull, you score double
the deck, and grab a pen and paper. Play 50 the points on that commodity!
GES
as normal, but pay attention to the OR A N

numbers on the cards. If you win a The Bear is bad news! If you have it, you can’t ring
round, you score the number of points on the bell — even if you have nine of a kind.
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the commodity you collected. Play until Both are risky to hold onto! If you’re holding the
someone reaches 500 points (or however Bull card or the Bear card when another player rings the
many points you agree to play to). bell, you lose 20 points. If you’re holding both, you lose 40
points! (Your score can go below zero.)
Note: Two players will be dealt ten cards instead of nine. Even with
ten cards, you only need nine of a commodity to ring the bell. Rotate
Tips: Trade the Bear card as soon as you get it! If you have the Bull card
who deals each round so that everyone gets a turn with ten cards.
and think someone else is about to win the round, try to trade it fast!
THE BULL AND THE BEAR
These cards can be traded alone, together, or in combination with
any commodity. WIN! The first player to reach 500 points wins
the game!
CONTENTS
BULL BEAR OIL OIL 85 OIL 85 85 Card case with built-in bell • 74 cards
© 2016 Hasbro, Pawtucket, RI 02861-1059 USA. All Rights Reserved. 
TM & ® denote U.S. Trademarks.

Consumer contact:  OBJECT


BULL 85BEAR 85 OIL 85 OIL OIL USA and Canada: Hasbro Games, Consumer Affairs Dept., P.O. Box 200, Pawtucket, RI Swap cards fast as you race to collect
02861-1059 USA. TEL. 800-255-5516. Hasbro Australia Ltd., Level 4, 67-71 Epping nine matching commodities.
BULL BEAR BEAR SUGAR 60
WOOL 55 Rd, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113, Australia. TEL. 1300 138 697. Hasbro NZ (a branch of
Hasbro Australia Ltd.), 221 Albany Highway, Auckland, New Zealand. TEL. 0508 828 200.
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MEET THE CARDS PLAY! 3. Keep shouting and swapping! If you collect nine cards of the
same commodity, ring the bell. You win the round! Reshuffle
There are eight different commodity sets, plus the Bull and the Bear. The dealer rings the bell to start the game. There are no turns — the cards and deal the next round.
ORANGES 50 WOOL 55 SUGAR 60 COFFEE 65 CORN 75
everyone trades cards at the same time! You can trade up to
four cards at a time, but they must be the same commodity.
CORN 75 CATTLE
SUGAR 80 60 ORANGES
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WIN!
GET READY! 2. You can trade The first player to win three rounds
1. Place the bell where everyone can reach it. with any player wins the game!
2. You’ll only play using one commodity set per player. It doesn’t who is calling out
matter which sets you choose. Put away any extra commodities the same number.
and the Bull and the Bear cards. If a player wants
3. Choose a dealer to shuffle the cards and deal nine facedown to trade fewer
to each player. cards than you
FOR YOUNGER PLAYERS
4. Pick up your cards (make sure no one else can see them) do, you may lower For an easier game, play with six cards in a commodity set
and arrange them by commodity. your number to instead of nine. Play as normal, except you’ll deal six cards
swap with them. to each player and only need six of a kind to ring the bell!
Note: The numbers on the cards only matter in the advanced game.

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