Description
Finally, a party game for bassoonists.
Bocals to Bocals is a fill-in-the-blank party game built around the weird, wonderful world of the bassoon. Players answer question cards with their funniest, strangest, most inappropriate, or most painfully accurate responses, all drawn from the inside jokes and shared experiences of bassoonists.
If you’ve ever complained about reeds, argued about fingerings, debated Tchaikovsky, or felt the need to insult a clarinet player for no particular reason, this game is for you.
The game is inspired by the style of party games such as Apples to Apples and Cards Against Humanity, but with one important difference: it’s about bassoons.
Game details
- Game: Bocals to Bocals
- Designer: The Breaking Winds
- Game type: Fill-in-the-blank party game
- Players: 1-99
- Recommended age: 18+
- Play time: 30-60 minutes
- Edition: First edition
- Release date: February 6, 2024
- Format: Physical card game
- Available from: The Game Crafter
- Current price: $63.99
Who is this game for?
Bocals to Bocals is a great choice for:
- Bassoonists – students, professional, teachers alike
- Studio parties, music camp, rehearsals (we dare you)
- Double reed musicians
- Fans of The Breaking Winds
- Anyone who enjoys extremely specific musical inside jokes
- The bassoonist who already owns every other bassoon-themed thing
Non-bassoonists are welcome to play, too. They may be confused. That’s part of the fun.
Why buy Bocals to Bocals?
Perhaps the world’s only game about the bassoon, Bocals to Bocals is the perfect gift for a bassoonist, a fun addition to a bassoon studio game night, and an excellent way to procrastinate on practicing.
It’s also much easier to play than excerpts.
The Rules
Bocals to Bocals is played with a full deck of black question cards and a full deck of yellow response cards. Before repeat plays, shuffle each deck!
All players (“sectionmates”) begin the game by drawing 7 yellow response cards into their hand. Sectionmates may always look at their cards.
Choose the first judge (“maestro”) from among the sectionmates. This person draws one black question card and reads it aloud to the rest of the sectionmates.
In reply to the question card, each sectionmate who is not currently the maestro chooses the best response card from their hand (the definition of “best” here may be fuzzy), removes that card, and plays it face-down on the table.
Once everyone has played their response card, the maestro mixes them all up so that no one knows who played each card, then reads them aloud to the whole ensemble.
The maestro selects their favorite response to the question as the winner of the round. The prompt card is given back to the sectionmate who played the winning answer card and placed on the table to keep score. The rest of the response cards are discarded.
It’s time for the next round! Sectionmates draw fresh response cards from the deck to again have 7 in their hand. The role of maestro passes to the player on the left, and the new maestro draws the next question card.
When you are tired of laughing at your bassoon life, the game concludes, and the player who has won the most response cards wins.
Congrats, you got first chair!