Contents:
Seven wooden batons (round, knob-headed sticks)
One pack of 52 cards (four suits of 13 special designs each)

The art on the cards is allegedly inspired by "the Incas, high up on the Andes of Peru."

Object of the Game;
NOT to be the first player to complete the word "SPOOF".

Preparation for Play:
Place (n-1) batons (where n = number of players) in the centre of the table, within reach of all the players. The complete pack of cards is dealt out to the players. It doesn't matter if the cards are not distributed evenly.

Game Play:
Each player chooses a card from his hand, and passes it, face down, to the player on his left. Each player picks up the card that was passed to him, and chooses either that card or another card from his hand to pass again to the left.

Play is simultaneous and continuous in this manner, the players passing cards as fast as possible, until someone has a set of four cards of the same kind. That player places his cards quietly on the table, and takes a baton from the centre. All the other players must then immediately try to grab a baton. The last player to do so cannot pick up a baton, because there is one baton fewer than the number of players. The player without a baton scores an "S", "the beginning of his descent to the caste of a SPOOF."

Rounds are played, each time with the person failing to secure a baton scoring a letter in the word "SPOOF". Each player's first failure scores an "S", his second a ''P", his third an "O", and so on, until one player completes the word "SPOOF", and "is declared to be a creature of that slow moving, dull-witted species."