Set aside the Badaboum penalty cards, In preparation for the game, the dealer should construct a new deck of cards by pulling sets of 4 of-a-kind; the number of sets being determined by the number of players.
The remaining cards will NOT be used. Shuffle and deal 4 cards to each player. One Badaboum-card is placed at the centre of the table. Each player looks at his (her) hand, keeping it secret. Since the object of the game is to get 4 animals of the same kind, the 1st player chooses 1 card to discard and hands it to his (her) neighbour on the left. Each player will have to do the same. When a player obtains 4 matching cards, he shouts "Badaboum" banging his hand on the centre card. All the other players must hurry to do the same. The player whose hand is on top of the pile, will be given a penalty card. In the end, the player with the lowest penalty score, is the winner.