How to Play

Friday

1-1 players 25-25 min 7.1 Board Game Geek Rating

In this solo deck-building game, you're Friday helping the shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe survive your island. Battle hazards using fight cards—victories add the hazard as a new fight card to your deck, while defeats cost life but let you remove weak cards. Build an optimized deck to ultimately defeat two pirate ships threatening the island.

Published 2011

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

Place step tracker

Put a tracker on the Step counter card to indicate which step the game is in, starting in the 'green' step 'one'

Sort Drama/Trauma cards

Separate the 11 black Drama/Trauma cards into two piles: 7 normal Drama cards and 3 difficult Trauma cards

Prepare Drama/Trauma deck

Shuffle these two decks separately, then stack the face-down Drama cards on top of the face-down Trauma cards

Prepare Fighting deck

Shuffle the 18 blue 'basic Scott' Fighting starting cards and place them face-down as your initial Fighting deck

Set aside discard space

Reserve space for a Fighting discard pile and a World discard pile

Prepare World deck

Shuffle the 30 World cards and place them face-down

Select Evil Exes

Shuffle the 10 Evil Exes cards, draw two random cards and place them face-up next to your play area as your end-game opponents, returning the rest to the box

Set starting life points

Place a tracker on the Life Points counter card to indicate 'twenty' life points

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

Phase 1 - Draw World cards

Draw 2 cards from the face-down World draw deck

Choose World opponent

Select one card to fight and discard the other to the World discard pile, placing the chosen World card in front of you

Phase 2 - Draw free Fighting cards

Draw 1 Fighting card and place it to the left of the World card, continuing to draw free cards until you match or exceed the World value

Pay for additional cards

After drawing the maximum free cards, each additional Fighting card costs 1 life point tracked on the Life Points card and placed to the right of the World card

Use special abilities

After drawing each Fighting card, decide to use any face-up Fighting card's special ability in any order

Stop drawing strategically

After drawing at least one Fighting card, you may stop drawing even if you haven't beaten the World to preserve won cards or remove weaker cards

End the fight

Fights do not end automatically; you must decide when to end by comparing your total fighting value with the current World value

Phase 3 - Win the fight

If your fighting value matches or exceeds the World value, discard all Fighting cards to the Fighting discard pile and the World card to the Fighting discard pile as an 'Experience' card

Phase 3 - Lose the fight

If you lose, determine the difference between World value and your fighting value, then lose that many life points

Remove cards when losing

For each life point lost, you may choose one Fighting card used in the current fight to permanently remove from the game

Reshuffle when deck exhausted

When the World draw deck is exhausted, shuffle the World discard pile to form a new face-down draw deck and advance to a new step

Form new Fighting deck

If you have completely cycled through the available Fighting cards, the undefeated World card and remaining Fighting cards go into the Fighting discard pile, then form a new deck from the Fighting discard pile

Add Drama/Trauma when reshuffling

Before forming a new Fighting deck, add one Drama/Trauma card from the top of the Drama/Trauma pile, shuffle the Fighting cards, and place face-down without looking