How do you win hi ho cherry-o

Hi-Ho! Cherry-O challenges you to be the first player to gather your crop of 10 cherries from your cherry tree and get them into your bucket. The game comes with 4 trees, 4 buckets, 40 cherries, and a spinner. Before the game begins, each player chooses their own cherry tree, 10 cherries, and a bucket. Put the 10 cherries on your tree and you’re ready to go.

Let’s Play

Hi-Ho Cherry-O Rules say that the first player to play is the youngest in the group and then play moves to the left. The first player spins and plays according to the spot the spinner lands on.

If the spinner lands on ONE CHERRY you pluck a cherry from your tree and put it right in your bucket. When the spinner lands on TWO CHERRIES you take two cherries off your tree and they go in the bucket. THREE CHERRIES means that three cherries are put in your bucket. Landing on FOUR CHERRIES prompts you to put four cherries into your bucket.

When you land on the BIRD or the DOG, Hi-Ho Cherry-O Rules tell you to remove two cherries from your bucket. The two cherries go back on your cherry tree. What if you only have one cherry in your bucket? In that case, the one cherry returns to the tree. If your bucket is already empty then you don’t need to do anything.

When the spinner lands on the SPILLED BUCKET . . . all of the cherries in your bucket have to be placed back on your cherry tree.

How Do You Win?

If you are the first player to get all 10 of your cherries into your bucket at one time you yell out, “Hi-Ho! Cherry-O.” You are the winner.

Hi Ho! Cherry-O

Hi Ho! Cherry-O is a children's put and take board game currently published by Hasbro[1] in which two to four players spin a spinner in an attempt to collect cherries. The original edition, designed by Hermann Wernhard and first published in 1960 by Whitman Publishers,[citation needed] had players compete to collect 10 cherries. In 1987, there was a video cassette version, made by Golden Book Video in the hi-ho video line, this involved a character, farmer Bing, asking for your help to collect cherries.[2] During an update in 2007,[3] the rules were updated to include a cooperative play variant, where players cooperate to remove all fruit from the board before a bird puzzle is completed. In 2015, Winning Moves Games USA published a classic edition.

Gameplay[edit]

Each player starts the game with an empty basket and 10 cherries on their tree. Players take turns spinning the spinner and performing the indicated action. The spinner is divided into seven sections:

1. Take one cherry off of the tree.
2. Take two cherries off of the tree.
3. Take three cherries off of the tree.
4. Take four cherries off of the tree.
5. Dog: Replace cherries on the tree: two if the player has at least that many, or one if they have only one. If the player's bucket is empty, this space has no effect.
6. Bird: Same effect as the dog.
7. Spilled basket: Return all cherries to the tree. If the player's bucket is empty, this space has no effect.

The first player to collect all the cherries from their tree and call "Hi Ho! Cherry-O" wins the game.

Analysis[edit]

The game length can be determined using a Markov chain, yielding the following results:[4]

• Minimum game length: 3
• Average game length: 15.8
• Maximum game length: Unbounded
• 25th percentile: 7 moves
• 50th percentile (median): 12 moves
• 75th percentile: 21 moves
• 95th percentile: 40 moves

References[edit]

1. ^ "HI HO! CHERRY-O Game". Hasbro. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
2. ^ "Hi-Ho! Cherry-O VCR Game". Retrieved 2022-04-13.
3. ^ "Hi Ho! Cherry-O". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
4. ^ "HI HO! CHERRY-O Mathematics". Jeffrey Humpherys. Retrieved 2011-01-11.

External links[edit]

• Hasbro's Hi Ho! Cherry-O product page
• Hi Ho! Cherry-O at BoardGameGeek Includes many pictures of various game editions.

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