Ouch!
Choose which cactus card you want to take and decide which side you will handle it by. When you flip it over, you may get a nice set of flowers or an itchy prick in your finger!
In Ouch!, players take turns choosing the cactus card with the prettiest flowers they want to bring over to their collection. Before taking the card, they need to indicate which side of the card they will touch, then flip it while handling only that edge of the card. If the reverse is clear on that side, they can take the card and score that number of flowers; if the reverse shows a cactus full of thorns, they lose the card.
As soon as someone manages to keep eight cards (or the deck runs out), players will count the number of flowers they've collected. The one with the highest number of flowers in their collection wins.
Product Details
- Objective: Collect the most points by gathering cactus cards with the most flowers, while avoiding cacti.
- Setup: Shuffle the 44 cactus cards and place them face down. Draw six cards and place them face-up on the table.
- Taking a turn: Players choose one of the face-up cards and announce which side they will pick it up from (top, bottom, left, or right).
- Getting pricked: If the player picks up the card from a side with a cactus on the back, they exclaim "Ouch!" and discard the card. They may also have to discard an already-won card if it's a red flower cactus.
- Keeping cards: If the side is clear, the player keeps the card in their personal area.
- Special cards:
- Fennec: Allows you to take another turn, but if you get pricked on that extra turn, you lose the fennec card as well.
- Snake: Allows you to take a card that another player is forced to discard.
- Ending the game: The game ends when a player has collected eight cards or when the draw deck runs out.
- Scoring:
- One point per flower.
- Five bonus points for the player with the most red flowers.
- Four bonus points for each set of four different colored flowers.



