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A simple card collecting game

Fruity

Collect three fruits of the Spirit to fill your basket — a quick matching game for kids and grown-ups.

  • 2–6 players
  • 5–10 min
  • 54 cards
  • Pattern matching

$12.99

How to play

Ships from the SDG Biblical Wisdom shop.

Four Fruity cards: a Fruit Basket card listing Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control, and the Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control Fruit cards, each with its own fruit.
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Fill your basket

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”Galatians 5:22–23 ESV

Fruity is a simple card set collecting game that teaches pattern matching and the Biblical Fruit of the Spirit.

The goal of the game is to collect one each of three Fruit cards to complete their Fruit Basket.

The game can be played by kids old enough to recognize matching symbols, is played by 2 - 6 players, and each game takes 5 - 10 minutes to play.

Players win when they’ve collected all three fruits in their basket. The game continues until all players have won.

What’s in the box

A deck of 54 cards and nothing else. Tap a card to enlarge it.

36 Fruit cards

Four of each of the nine fruits of the Spirit, each with its own fruit picture.

12 Fruit Basket cards

Each lists three fruits. The basket you are dealt is the three you are collecting.

6 Turn Instruction cards

Shows, in words and symbols, what you do on your turn, in order.

The 54 cards

CardsHow manyNotes
Fruit cards364 of each of the 9 fruits
Fruit Basket cards1212 different baskets
Turn Instruction cards6one for each player
Total54
The Fruit cards

Each of the Fruit cards has the name of the fruit at the bottom of the card for the player to read, the name upside down at the top of the card for the other players to read, and an icon of a kind of fruit in the center of the card representing that fruit of the Spirit.

The Fruit Basket cards

Each Fruit Basket card has three fruit of the Spirit and their associated icons. Each player gets a Fruit Basket card and this determines which Fruit cards he is trying to collect.

Note: The initial printing of the game includes one Fruit Basket card that has the wrong symbol next to a fruit name. If a player has this Fruit Basket, they can complete the basket by either matching the word or the symbol.

Here are a few examples:

The Turn Instruction card

Each player is given an Instruction card, which shows in words and symbols, the actions they take, in order, on their turn.

How to play

Draw a card, keep the fruits in your basket, pass on the one you do not need. The first to fill a basket wins; play on until everyone has.

The goal

There are 54 cards in the Fruity game: 36 Fruit Cards, 12 Basket Cards, 6 Turn Instruction Cards. (See Below.)

The objective of the game is for each player to collect one each of three Fruit Cards to complete their Fruit Basket.

Note: The initial printing of the game includes one Fruit Basket card that has the wrong symbol next to a fruit name. If a player has this Fruit Basket, they can complete the basket by either matching the word or the symbol.

Setup
  1. Each player is given a Turn Instruction card and a Fruit Basket card. (The unused Turn Instruction and Fruit Basket cards are set aside and not used in the rest of the game.)
  2. Each player is dealt three Fruit cards.
  3. If any of the Fruit cards dealt to a player match a fruit on that player's Fruit Basket card, that Fruit card is placed face-up in front of the player. (But only one of each Fruit.)
  4. The remaining undealt Fruit cards are placed face-down as a draw pile.
  5. The top Fruit card in the draw pile is turned face-up to form a discard pile.
Beginning the game
  1. Choose a player to go first.
  2. This player draws a Fruit card from the face-down draw pile.
  3. If this Fruit is one in the player's Fruit Basket that he hasn't yet collected, he places the Fruit card face up in front of him.
  4. The player chooses a Fruit card in his hand and passes it to the player to his right.
Subsequent turns

Play continues with the next player to the right:

  1. This player receives the Fruit card passed by the previous player.
  2. If this Fruit is one in the player's Fruit Basket that he hasn't yet collected, he places the Fruit card face up in front of him.
  3. He chooses a Fruit card in his hand and places it face-up on the discard pile.
  4. He then draws a Fruit card from the face-down draw pile.
  5. If this Fruit is one in the player's Fruit Basket that he hasn't yet collected, he places the Fruit card face up in front of him.
  6. The player chooses a Fruit card in his hand and passes it to the player to his right.
Winning the game
  • A player wins when he has placed face-up in front of him one of each of the Fruit cards in his Fruit Basket.
  • The player passes his remaining card to the player to his right and play continues with the remaining players until all have completed their Fruit Baskets.

Example game

Below we walk through a game between three players, turn by turn. The different background colors will indicate the activities of each player.

Initial Deal

At the beginning of the game, each player is given a Turn Instruction card and a Fruit Basket card, and is dealt three Fruit cards, as shown below.

Player 1

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardPatience cardSelf-Control cardKindness card

Player 2

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardGoodness cardFaithfulness cardGentleness card

Faithfulness is one of the fruits in his basket, so Player 2 lays down the Faithfulness card in front of him.

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness card

Player 3

Player 3's Fruit Basket cardPatience cardGentleness cardPatience card
Round 1

Player 1

Player 1 matching cards played face up: (none yet)

Player 1's Fruit Basket card

Player 1 hand at start of turn:

Patience cardSelf-Control cardKindness card

Player 1 draws Joy card

Player 1 lays down Joy card in front of him.

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardJoy card

Player 1 passes Patience card to Player 2.

Player 1 hand at end of turn:

Self-Control cardKindness card

Player 2

Player 2 matching cards played face up:

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness card

Player 2 receives Patience card from Player 1

Player 2 hand at start of turn:

Goodness cardGentleness cardPatience card

Player 2 discards Goodness card.

Player 2 draws Faithfulness card.

Player 2 lays down Patience card.

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness cardPatience card

Player 2 passes Faithfulness card to Player 3.

Player 2 hand at end of turn:

Gentleness card

Player 3

Player 3 matching cards played face up: (none yet)

Player 3's Fruit Basket card

Player 3 receives Faithfulness card from Player 2.

Player 3 hand at start of turn:

Patience cardGentleness cardPatience cardFaithfulness card

Player 3 discards Patience card.

Player 3 draws Self-Control card.

Player 3 lays down Faithfulness card.

Player 3's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness card

Player 3 passes the Gentleness card to Player 1.

Player 3 hand at end of turn:

Patience cardSelf-Control card
Round 2

Player 1

Player 1 matching cards played face up:

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardJoy card

Player 1 receives Gentleness card from Player 3.

Player 1 hand at start of turn:

Self-Control cardKindness cardGentleness card

Player 1 discards Kindness card

Player 1 draws Love card

Player 1 lays down Love card in front of him.

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardJoy cardLove card

Player 1 passes Self-Control card to Player 2.

Player 1 hand at end of turn:

Gentleness card

Player 2

Player 2 matching cards played face up:

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness cardPatience card

Player 2 receives Self-Control card from Player 1

Player 2 hand at start of turn:

Gentleness cardSelf-Control card

Player 2 discards Gentleness card.

Player 2 draws Joy card.

Player 2 passes Joy card to Player 3.

Player 2 hand at end of turn:

Self-Control card

Player 3

Player 3 matching cards played face up:

Player 3's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness card

Player 3 receives Joy card from Player 2.

Player 3 hand at start of turn:

Patience cardSelf-Control cardJoy card

Player 3 discards Patience card.

Player 3 draws Goodness card.

Player 3 lays down Joy and Goodness cards.

Player 3's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness cardJoy cardGoodness card

Player 3 wins!

Player 3 passes the Self Control card to Player 1.

Round 3

Player 1

Player 1 matching cards played face up:

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardJoy cardLove card

Player 1 receives Self-Control card from Player 3.

Player 1 hand at start of turn:

Gentleness cardSelf-Control card

Player 1 discards Self Control card

Player 1 draws Self Control card

Player 1 passes Gentleness card to Player 2.

Player 1 hand at end of turn:

Self-Control card

Player 2

Player 2 matching cards played face up:

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness cardPatience card

Player 2 receives Gentleness card from Player 1

Player 2 hand at start of turn:

Self-Control cardGentleness card

Player 2 discards Gentleness card.

Player 2 draws Self-Control card.

Player 2 passes Self-Control card to Player 1.

Player 2 hand at end of turn:

Self-Control card
Round 4

Player 1

Player 1 matching cards played face up:

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardJoy cardLove card

Player 1 receives Self-Control card from Player 2.

Player 1 hand at start of turn:

Self-Control cardSelf-Control card

Player 1 discards Self Control card

Player 1 draws Love card

Player 1 passes Love card to Player 2.

Player 1 hand at end of turn:

Self-Control card

Player 2

Player 2 matching cards played face up:

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness cardPatience card

Player 2 receives Love card from Player 1

Player 2 hand at start of turn:

Self-Control cardLove card

Player 2 discards Self-Control card.

Player 2 draws Gentleness card.

Player 2 lays down Love card.

Player 2's Fruit Basket cardFaithfulness cardPatience cardLove card

Player 2 wins!

Player 2 passes Gentleness card to Player 1.

Round 5

Player 1

Player 1 matching cards played face up:

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardJoy cardLove card

Player 1 receives Gentleness card from Player 2.

Player 1 hand at start of turn:

Self-Control cardGentleness card

Player 1 discards Self-Control card

Player 1 draws Peace card

Player 1 lays down Peace card.

Player 1's Fruit Basket cardJoy cardLove cardPeace card

Player 1 wins!

Game over!

All three players have filled their baskets: Player 3 won in round 2, Player 2 in round 4 and Player 1 in round 5.

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$12.99 · Orders ship from the SDG Biblical Wisdom shop.