Hi Ho ! Cherry - O - Wikipedia Hi Ho ! Cherry - O Hi Ho ! Cherry - O Players 2 to 4 Setup time < 5 minutes Playing time < 10 minutes Random chance Complete Skill ( s ) required Counting Hi Ho ! Cherry - O is a children 's put and take board game currently published by Hasbro 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, had players compete to collect 10 cherries. During an update in 2007, 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 published a classic edition. Contents 1 Rules 2 Analysis 3 References 4 External links Rules Each player starts the game with an empty basket and 10 cherries on his / her tree. Players take turns spinning the spinner and performing the indicated action. The spinner is divided into seven sections : Take one cherry from tree Take two cherries from tree Take three cherries from tree Take four cherries from tree Dog : Replace cherries on tree : two if the player has at least that many in his / her basket, one if he / she has only one ( no effect if player 's basket is empty ) Bird : Same as dog Spilled basket : Replace all cherries on tree The first player to collect all the cherries from his / her tree and call `` Hi Ho ! Cherry - O '' wins the game. Analysis The game length can be determined using a Markov chain, yielding the following results : 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 Jump up ^ `` HI HO ! CHERRY - O Game ''. Hasbro. Retrieved 2009 - 07 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Hi Ho ! Cherry - O ''. BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2008 - 08 - 10. Jump up ^ `` HI HO ! CHERRY - O Mathematics ''. Jeffrey Humpherys. Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 11. External links Hasbro 's Hi Ho ! Cherry - O product page Hi Ho ! Cherry - O at BoardGameGeek Includes many pictures of various game editions. hide Hasbro Intellectual properties currently managed by Hasbro Toys Action Man Baby Alive Blythe Easy - Bake Oven Furby G.I. Joe Glo Worm Gobots Hanazuki Jem Koosh Kre - O Lite - Brite Littlest Pet Shop Micronauts Mighty Muggs Mr. Potato Head My Little Pony Nerf Play - Doh Pound Puppies Power Rangers Rubik 's Cube Sit ' n Spin Spirograph Stickle Bricks Stretch Armstrong Super Soaker Tinkertoy Tonka Transformers Weeble Games Acquire Aggravation Axis & Allies Barrel of Monkeys Battleship Boggle Bop It Buckaroo ! Candy Land Catch Phrase Chutes & Ladders Clue Connect 4 Cootie Cranium Crocodile Dentist Designer 's World Duel Masters Dungeons & Dragons Elefun Gator Golf Girl Talk Guess Who ? Hi Ho ! Cherry - O Hungry Hungry Hippos Jenga Lazer Tag Life Magic : The Gathering Mall Madness Milton Monopoly Mouse Trap Mystery Date Nerf Blaster Operation Ouija Parcheesi Perfection Pictionary Pit Risk Rook Scattergories Scrabble ( U.S. and Canada ) Simon Sorry ! Stratego Taboo Trivial Pursuit Trouble Twister Upwords Yahtzee Distributed worldwide by Hasbro Beyblade ( except Japan and parts of Asia ) CirKis ( except U.S., UK, France and Germany ) FurReal Friends ( except Japan ) iDog ( except Japan ) Yo - kai Watch ( except Asia ) Licensed products Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader ? Disney Disney Princess Elena of Avalor Frozen Indiana Jones Marvel Legends Marvel Super Hero Squad Marvel Universe Spider - Man Classics Star Wars Idaten Jump Nickelodeon Sesame Street Strawberry Shortcake Sid the Science Kid The Simpsons Trolls Wolverine and the X-Men X-Men Origins : Wolverine Subsidiaries Entertainment and Licensing Hasbro Studios Boulder Media Discovery Family ( 40 % ) Wizards of the Coast Avalon Hill Backflip Studios ( 70 % ) Divisions and brands Nerf Playskool Tiger Electronics Tonka Related media Comics Films Television Conventions BotCon HasCon TFcon See also Hasbro Universe Hasbro Comic Book Universe Untitled Hasbro cinematic universe This board game - related article or section is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hi_Ho!_Cherry-O&oldid=802142213 '' Categories : Board games introduced in 1960 Milton Bradley Company games Children 's board games Board game stubs Hidden categories : Pages using infobox game with unknown parameters All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from November 2009 All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 24 September 2017, at 07 : 25. About Wikipedia

Question: what does the dog mean in hi ho cherry-o
Answer: Replace cherries on tree: two if the player has at least that many in his/her basket, one if he/she has only one (no effect if player's basket is empty)