The Objective

Work with your partner to score as many points as possible in 45 minutes. You’ll score points by finding books that fit your cards.

When there are 3 or more teams, you can also score additional points in the Storytelling Round if you have the best stories, as voted on by the group.

Quick Start

Get matched with a partner (see below).

Grab a deck of 50 Oldies But Goodies cards, draw 10 and choose 5 to keep. Set your timer for 45 minutes. When the game master says go, head out into the bookstore to find 5 books that match your cards.

Once you’ve found your first 5, come back and draw another 5 cards - you have to take at least 2 of the cards, but you can take all 5.

You have to be back to the game master when the 45 minutes ends, or else all the cards you’re currently holding count for negative points.

Scoring

Scoring is pretty simple:

All the Glorious Details

Oldies But Goodies is a scavenger hunt & storytelling game that takes place in a used bookstore. Players are matched with a partner, and they draw cards, find books that fit the cards, and tell each other the story of why that book fits.

There are 4 rounds to the game (3 if you’re playing with fewer than 3 teams):

Once all rounds are complete, the gamemaster reveals each team’s score for the first time. The team with the most points wins and gets to add a card to the deck for future games of Oldies But Goodies.