OUT OF THE BOX Cloud 9 The Daring Game of Ups & Downs Party Game Party & Fun Board Game

The object of Cloud 9 is to earn the most points through daring balloon ascents. Setup: Each player is dealt an initial hand of six cards (each of which features one of the four balloon colors, or else is a wild card). Each player places their scoring marker at the start of the scoring track and places their passenger marker in the balloon basket, which is placed over the first cloud. A first player is randomly selected. Raising the Balloon: Each turn the basket starts out over a cloud. The cloud is labelled with a point value (from "1" to "25") and with a number of dice (from 2 to 4). The active player is the pilot and throws that number of dice. Each die shows either one of the four balloon colors or else a blank side. Together they show the sum of cards that the active player must play for the balloon to rise (e.g., "one red and one yellow"). After the dice are thrown, but before any cards are played, each player other than the pilot now gets to decide whether to bail out of the balloon or not; if they do, they place their passenger marker on the current cloud. After everyone has decided, the pilot now must play the appropriate balloon cards if he has them. He also may play a wild card to replace all the required cards if he has that. If the the pilot successfully plays the cards, the balloon rises to the next cloud, and the next passenger still in the basket becomes the new pilot. If the pilot fails, the balloon falls, tumbling back to cloud 1. Special Rules for One Passenger: If a pilot is the last passenger in a balloon he may choose to bail out before the dice are rolled. This is the only situation when a pilot may bail out. Ending an Ascent: An ascent ends either when the balloon rises to cloud 9 (worth 25 points) or when it plunges back down. At this point everyone earns a score. If the balloon ascended to the 25-point cloud (cloud 9), everyone still in the basket earns 25 points. If the balloon fell, everyone still in the basket earns 0 points. Anyone who bailed out early earns the points for the cloud they landed on. Afterward, all the passengers return to the basket, which is placed on cloud 1, and everyone draws 1 card to add to their hand. Ending the Game: The game ends at the completion of a balloon trip where someone earns a total of 50 or more points. The player with the highest score is the winner. CONTENTS: ELEVATED BALLOON BASKET 76 CARDS 4 DICE 6 PASSENGERS TOKENS 6 SCORING MARKERS GAME BOARD