Grow your population, grow crops, keep animals, dig mines, go on expeditions: wealthiest people win.

Setup

• Randomly assign first player
• 1st and 2nd player get 1 food each
• 3rd player gets 2 food
• 4th onwards get 3 food each

Game

• Phase 1: Add new Action space
  • Reveal the next Action space card
  • Reveal the next Harvest token (from round 6)
    • There are 3 red tokens that go on the Harvest event card, top to bottom
• Phase 2: Replenish accumulating spaces
  • If there’s a bracket this is for non-empty spaces
• Phase 3: Work phase
  • In turn order, in ascending weapon level, each person takes an action
  • If you have fewer people than opponents you simply miss a turn
• Phase 4: Return home to their dwellings, don’t stack so they’re visible
• Phase 5: Harvest time
  • 5.1: harvest 1 token per sown field
  • 5.2: feed 2 meals per dwarf (1 per child)
    • conversions are free actions, conversion table reference on your player board
    • take 1 Begging Marker for each missing food (2 per dwarf), there is no way to remove these. -3 at the end of the game
  • 5.3: get 1 extra animal for each animal you have 2 or more of (not dogs)
    • parents may be in separate areas
    • There must be space to accommodate the babies, or they are not gained
    • breeding animal types may not be converted to food during this phase
    • (non-breeding animals can, however, be converted to food)
  • Red tokens
    • No harvest
    • 1 food per dwarf
    • skip field (5.1) or breeding (5.3) phase – chosen individually

During Play

• Action Spaces
  • Twin Tiles
    • Play adjacent to existing tiles
    • If covering an icon, gain the resource
    • Note the tile type being covered
    • If there’s not sufficient space you may not downgrade to a single tile
  • Sow: Grain, Veg, Gemfruit, Mushrooms; up to 2 times each (quantities as pictured on action tile and reference card)
  • Furnishing
    • Placed in caverns, not tunnels, mines or unexcavated
    • Furnish a cavern includes dwellings
    • Furnish a dwelling is only dwellings
  • Family Growth
    • Must have space to house new person
    • New person can’t take an action this round
    • Max of 5 people
      • Additional Dwelling allows a 6th, use an extra token of a different colour
      • Goblins can also extend to a max of 6 total (with fewer normal people used if using multiple Goblins)
  • Goods & Mines
    • Ore Mine goes on 2 ordinary tunnels (not deep)
    • Ruby Mine can go on ordinary or deep tunnels
  • Animals
    • Farming action spaces create Pastures (fenced areas)
    • 2 animals in a small Pasture
    • 4 animals in a large Pasture
    • Stables double the Pasture capacity (e.g. 2x stables in large pasture = 16 capacity)
    • Stable in a Meadow = 1 animal
    • Stable in a Forest = 1 Boar
    • Ore/Ruby mine = 1 Donkey
    • Entry cave = 2 animals
    • Dogs can go anywhere
    • Dogs in Meadow or Pasture (not fields or forest) can keep one more Sheep than there are Dogs
  • Weapons
    • Pay 1-8 ore to get a weapon
    • People must be played in ascending weapon order
    • People with weapons can go on Expeditions for loot
      • Loot as per reference card
      • Weapon level dictates max loot level
      • Expedition level dictates how many loot items obtained
      • Loot items must be different
      • At end of Expedition weapon level increases for the person that did it
  • Starting Player
  • Imitation
    • You can’t imitate a space occupied by your own people
• Rubies – free action to trade as per reference card
• Gemfruits – swap for Rubies as a free action
• Mushrooms – swap for Vegetables as a free action

Score Points From

• 1 per animal (farm/dog)
• -2 per missing farm animal type (4 types total: sheep, donkey, cattle, boar)
• ½ per Grain
• 1 per Veg
• 1 per Ruby
• 1 per Person
• -1 per unused space
• Tile Points
• Tile Bonuses
• 1 per Gold
• -3 per Begging Marker

Tips

• If only 1 player does expeditions they will probably win
• If only 1 player doesn’t do expeditions they will probably win

Setup

• Tokens in bag, Tiles in stacks on table, nature tokens (pine cones) in a pile
  • 2 players: 43 tiles (remove 42)
  • 3 players: 63 tiles (remove 22)
  • 4 players: 83 tiles (remove 2)
• Select 1 scoring card per animal type
• 1 starter habitat to each player
• Deal 4 tiles and 4 tokens

Game

• Going clockwise players take turns until there are no tiles to replenish the market (20 turns each)
• On your turn
  • select a pairing of tile and token
  • place the tile
    • must touch another tile
    • can’t go on top
    • can’t be moved once placed
  • place the token
    • tile must not already have a token
    • tile must show the matching token symbol
    • if it can’t be placed it is returned to the bag
  • restock market so there’s 4 tiles and 4 tokens again

During Play

• If the 4 tokens are all the same they’re automatically wiped and replaced
• If 3 of the 4 tokens are the same the active player can elect to have the matching tokens wiped and replaced
• Nature tokens are gained by populating a keystone tile (1 animal, white triangle, white pine cone)
• Nature tokens can be spent to:
  • Mix/Match tiles and tokens from different pairings
  • Wipe and replace any number of tokens
• There is no limit to the amount of tokens you can spend in one turn
• Unspent nature tokens are worth 1 point at the end

Score Points From

• Scoring Cards
  • as per the cards selected during setup
• Largest habitat tile count (personal)
  • 1 point per tile in a contiguous group of each habitat type
• Largest habitat bonus (competition)

Players	Largest	Draw for Largest	2nd Largest
2	2 Points	1 Point	None
3/4	3 Points	2 players drawing: 2 Point each 3/4 players drawing: 1 Point each	1 point, but only if there are no draws

• Nature tokens – 1 point each
• Ties: most nature tokens wins

Game

• Play cards into each mandala, each colour can only be in one section of each mandala
  • it’s in opponent Field OR Mountain OR your Field
  • there can be more than one card of a colour in that section
• A mandala is complete when it has all 6 colours in it – it is then destroyed
  • The player with the most cards in their field takes first turn to:
    • Choose a colour from the mountain and take all cards of that colour
    • If that colour isn’t in your river already place 1 card face up in the leftmost available space.
    • Place remaining cards face down in your cup
  • If a player has no cards in their field the process is still followed however all cards they claim go to the discard pile
  • Once all Mountain cards claimed then Field cards of that Mandala get discarded
  • Put 2 cards in the Mountain from the Draw pile
• Turn: perform 1 of 3 actions
  • Build Mountain and Draw
    • Place 1 card into the mountain
    • Draw 3 cards (strict hand limit of 8 – do not draw over and then discard)
    • Destroy Mandala if it is complete
  • Grow Field, No Draw
    • Place 1 or more cards of one colour into one of your fields
    • You must keep at least 1 card in your hand
    • Destroy Mandala if it is complete
  • Discard and Redraw
    • Place 1 or more cards all of the same colour into the discard pile
    • Draw the same number of cards
• Game End, either:
  • Draw deck is exhausted
    • Shuffle the discard pile to create a new draw deck so play can continue
    • The next Mandala completed is the final one
  • A player adds a 6th colour to their River
    • Finish destroying the current Mandala
• Initial Setup
  • Put 2 cards in each mountain
  • 6 cards to each players hand
  • 2 cards, face down, to each players cup

Score Points From

• Cards in your cup, multiplied by their value as dictated by the River
  • The card in the River does not score, only cards in the cup
• Ties won by player with fewest cards in their cup

Game

• On your turn perform 2 Different Actions:
  • Territory
    • Draw 3, place 1, discard 2 (draw pile replenished by shuffled discard pile)
      • Must be touching 2 existing plots (except if touching Pond plot)
    • Territory Objectives:
      • Various shapes of specific colours
      • A count of at least x many of a specific colour (not necessarily connected)
      • Flower hex is on 6 tiles
    • Irrigation
      • Objectives require irrigation:
        • adjacent to Pond
        • contains an oasis icon
        • building irrigation
        • clarification: gardeners cabin needs irrigation too (for flower hex)
      • When hex placed it grows bamboo immediately if irrigated
      • If irrigation reaches it later bamboo grows at time of irrigation
  • Water: Gain 1 irrigation (placed as free action on your turn)
  • Move Gardener
    • 1 or more hexes in a straight line
    • causes bamboo to grow on final hex and any directly adjacent of same colour
    • max of 4 sections
    • Fertiliser (rake) icon causes double growth
    • Gardener Objectives:
      • x stacks, y tall, of a specific colour
      • Can have icon requirements (presence or lack of)
      • + icon at top of stack: at least the number of section pictured below icon (2 or more)
  • Move Panda
    • 1 or more hexes in a straight line
    • eats 1 bamboo from final hex, stored in stomach until claiming objective
    • panda can not eat if enclosure icon present
    • Panda Objectives:
      • x sections of a specific colour(s)
      • Can have pond icon: requires panda to be on a pond hex
  • Draw Objective: top 1 from 1 deck of your choice (hand limit of 5)
• Start of turn: roll the dice
  • Sun: extra action
  • Rain: bamboo grows
  • Wind: optionally do the same action twice
  • Storm: panda frightened, transports anywhere and eats 1 section of bamboo
  • Clouds: gain an improvement chip of your choice (store it or use it)
  • ?: your choice of above
• Game ends after 9/8/7 objectives completed in a 2/3/4 player game
• Player completing game-ending objectives gets emperor card (+2 points)
  • other players get 1 final turn

During Play

• Free actions during your turn:
  • Claiming an objective
  • Placing an improvement icon
  • Placing irrigation channel
• Special Plots
  • Triple coloured plot
    • 1 of each colour grow here
    • all directly adjacent plots grow (all colours), if irrigated
    • Panda still only eats 1 section (colour is players choice)
    • Rain only triggers 1 section of 1 colour to grow
    • For plot objectives this plot is all 3 colours (wild)
  • Sacred hill (flute playing monk)
    • gardener stopping here triggers growth of all irrigated plots of that colour (everywhere, not just adjacent)
  • Pond
    • same rules as first pond
    • immediately irrigates connected plots, can be used as irrigation source
  • Gardeners Cabin
    • when gardener stops here player may draw top card of all 3 decks, keep 1, return other 2 to bottom of their decks
• Miss Panda
  • Miss Panda starts out of the game. She appears on first hex placed with a flower icon
  • Movement
    • All subsequent hexes with a flower icon cause her to move there upon placement
    • When the Storm weather is rolled players choose to move Panda OR Miss Panda anywhere
    • When a player performs a move action they choose to move Panda OR Miss Panda (standard 1 or more hexes in a straight line )
  • When Miss Panda finishes her movement in the same hex as Panda (but not vice versa) then the player may:
    • pay 1 section of bamboo of any colour
    • gain Baby token of corresponding colour
      • token to be chosen at random, but you may check which remain before selecting colour
  • Baby Benefits:
    • 2 points at end of game
    • Pictured benefit (optional):
      • Immediately place 1 irrigation channel from supply
      • Immediately place 1 improvement from supply (or move 1 if none available)
      • Return 1 objective from hand to bottom of the deck, replace it with top card from the same deck
  • Miss Panda does not eat bamboo

Score Points From

• Score points by completing objectives (territory shapes, bamboo grown, bamboo eaten)
• First to complete target number of objectives: +2 emperor card

Prepare

• For all decks: Go through and remove cards according to the player count shown in bottom right corner
• For Age 3: remove all purple, draw number of players +2, add them back into the deck and shuffle
• Each player gets: 3 coins and a wonder board (choose a side, day is simpler than night)

Game

• 3 rounds – deal out the deck, each player gets a hand of 7 cards.
• Choose 1, play it, pass the hand (deck gets passed clockwise/anticlockwise as pictured on the back of the cards)
  • Playing a card can be done in 3 ways:
    • construct it into your city, paying the cost on the card (or for free if your have the matching chain symbol)
    • use it to construct a stage of your wonder (from left to right), face down paying the cost on the wonder board (not the card)
    • sell it for 3 coins
• On the 6th turn, when you have a hand of 2 cards, 1 gets chosen, the other discarded.
• At End of Round, Resolve military conflicts: compare the total of your military power with your neighbours (left and right)
  • equal: no tokens taken
  • less: take a defeat token
  • higher: take a victory token corresponding to the current age

During play

• You can’t build the same thing twice
• It’s a good idea to tuck constructed brown and silver cards under the top left of your wonder board
• When constructing
  • Coin costs must be covered at time of selecting the card, i.e. not depending on income from neighbours during the turn
  • Resource costs can be covered by resources from your own city
    • Each resource can only be used once per turn
    • Can be the starting resource on your board
    • Can be a grey, brown or yellow card in your city
  • Resource costs can be covered by buying resources from a neighbouring city for 2 coins
    • Each resource can be bought once per turn per player
    • Can be the starting resource on their board
    • Can be a brown or grey resource (not yellow)
• Clarification: “construct the first age card in each color for free” e.g. If you have 0 green (scientific) cards in your empire, the first green card you build is free.

Score Points From

• Wonder Board victory points
• Treasure: 3 coins = 1VP
• Military conflict tokens
• Blue cards, add the total up
• Yellow cards, according to effects
• Purple Cards, according to effects
• Green cards
  • Each set of 3 different symbols = 7VP
  • For each symbol type: number of identical symbols:
    • 1 = 1VP
    • 2 = 4VP
    • 3 = 9VP
    • 4 = 16VP
    • 5 = 25VP
    • 6 = 36VP

Tips

Don’t forget the starting resource at the top left of your wonder board
Green (science) cards have the best chaining – each enables 2 chains in the next Age
Age 1 blue cards chain to blues in Age 2 or Age 3
Yellows chain through all 3 ages

Game

• Setup
  • Make a market of 3 face up power cards
  • Set aside the green dice (they’re used by some cards)
  • A monster figure and board to each player
    • 10 Health
    • 0 Points
  • If playing with “power up”:
    • draw 2 evolution cards, keep 1, discard 1
• Clockwise until end of game (20 Points or last player standing)
  • If you are in Tokyo at the start of your turn, gain 2 Points
  • Roll 6 black dice up to 3 times (2 rerolls of all/any dice of your choosing)
  • Resolve Dice
    • Points: 3 of a kind = score the number. Each additional of the number = +1
    • Energy: 1 energy cube each
    • Smash: monsters not where you are lose 1 health each
      • if injuring monster(s) in Tokyo they may now yield (they still lose the health)
      • if a monster lost their last health they’re eliminated. Cards and cubes discarded.
    • Heal
      • if outside Tokyo gain 1 health each to a max of 10
      • If playing with “power up”:
        • 3x health allows you to draw 2 evolution cards, keep 1, discard 1
        • If draw pile is empty then shuffle discard pile
  • Enter Tokyo if it is empty (this is non-optional)
    • Gain 1 Point when entering Tokyo
  • Buy Power Card(s) – restock is immediate
    • Optionally spend 2 Energy to discard and replace the market

Score Points From

• Rolling points on the dice: 3x number = score the number. Each additional of the number = +1
• Entering Tokyo: 1
• Starting your turn in Tokyo: 2
• Power Cards do crazy things
• Power Up Cards do crazy things

Game

• Place a tile from your supply
  • No overhangs/overlaps
  • Rotate/Flip freely
  • Not cover the pit (where the statue goes)
  • First tile can go anywhere
  • Orthogonally adjacent to a previous tile
• Evaluate icons you covered
  • Get corresponding tile for Green/White/Orange
  • Get a park area (from either stack) for the construction crew (to a max of 4 areas)
    • Park area goes orthogonally adjacent to existing area
    • Rotation is not allowed
    • Can’t be lower/closer than the park entrance
• Place a Bear Statue if all squares in an area are covered
• Claim an achievement
  • When you meet the criteria claim the topmost achievement tile
  • Only one of each type may be claimed per player
• Game ends when 1 player has filled 4 areas (or no player can go and all are passing)
  • All other players get one more turn

During Play

• If you can’t go then you may pass and take a free Green area of your choice.
  • Your turn ends, you may not place the free tile this turn
  • You can’t pass if you can go

Score Points From

• Buildings/statues in your park
• Achievements (if included)

Game

• Played over 8/9/10 rounds going clockwise
• First player moves round tracker marker on each round
• First Turn
  • Pick a race/power combo (and any coins on it)
    • Pay 1 coin for each skipped over combo, if any
    • Take race tokens for the sum of both counts
    • Replenish market by sliding down and drawing from top
  • Conquer
    • You need tokens equal to 2 + the number of tokens in the region
    • First region is on the edge of the map or by a sea
    • Subsequent regions must border existing regions
    • On final conquest add pips from reinforcement die to conquering value
  • Redeploy
    • Shift tokens freely around your regions, leaving at least one in each region
  • Score
    • 1 point for each region
    • Any Race/Power bonuses
• Subsequent turns, either Expand or Decline
  • Expand
    • pick up all your tokens, leaving 1 in each region you wish to maintain a presence in
    • Conquer, as above
    • Redeploy, as above
    • Score, as above
  • Decline
    • If you already have a race in decline, remove their tokens and discard their banner
    • Flip your race/power banners
    • Flip your race tokens and remove all but 1 per region
    • Score, as above
    • Next turn, play the same as first turn

During Play

• If a players region is conquered
  • they take their race tokens back in hand
  • discard one token
  • at the end of the current players turn
    • if they still have controlled region(s) redeploy in-hand tokens
    • if they don’t then their next turn is treated the same as a First turn
• You can conquer your own in-decline tokens

Score Points From

• Most coins at the end wins.
• Ties are settled by most race tokens on the map (including those in decline)

Game

• Make a draw pile of tiles
  • 2 player = 24 tiles
  • 3 player = 36 tiles
  • 4 player = 48 tiles
• Each round (6 in total)
  • Setup
    • Draw tiles, 1 for each player (and an extra 2 tiles for a 2 player game)
    • Lay them out in a column, in number order, lowest at top
  • Turn
    • First round
      • Order is decided by drawing from a handful of kings
      • Place your king on an unoccupied tile you want
    • Subsequent rounds
      • Order is from top to bottom of last round placing, top to bottom
      • Add the tile your king is on (from the last round) to your territory
        • 5×5 grid
        • touching borders must match on at least one edge
        • starting middle tile is considered wild
        • tiles can not be moved once placed
        • if tiles can’t fit they’re discarded and not scored
      • Place your king on an unoccupied tile you want in the newly drafted column
• Keep going until there are no tiles left to draw

Score Points From

• Each contiguous territory scores:
  • number of tiles * number of crowns
  • no crowns = no points
• Bonus points
  • 10 points if castle is in the center
  • 5 points if you didn’t discard any tiles

Tips

• Don’t get so caught up with matching borders you make a shape that can’t be filled

Game

• Round
  • All players roll their 4 movement dice
  • First player also rolls the road die
  • First player rotates clockwise after each round
• On your turn
  • Assign 1 die to an operable car
    • Place the die in the center of the dashboard
    • The number is how many spaces it moves
    • If you don’t have any available cars, assign it to the Coast space on a car you’ve already moved. Command cannot be used
  • Activate a command (Once per round)
    • Assign and activate a die to your command board
    • Commands
      • Airstrike – Any – Place your chopper in a free space and shoot with it
      • Nitro – 1-3 – add the value to your movement
      • Drift – 3-5 – pass through one space with a vehicle in without causing a slam
      • Repair – 6 – Remove 1 damage from 1 of your cars
  • Move that car
    • Car gains moves equal to the die assigned
    • A car moves into one of the 3 spaces in its front arc
    • Movement rules:
      • a car must move the full amount
      • can go through a space with a chopper
      • reveal hazards and resolve as the care moves
      • a car loses remaining moves when it takes damage
      • crashing into another car results in a Slam, place the moving car on top
        • Roll slam and direction die
        • Larger vehicle owner may ask for a reroll of both dice
        • Move affected vehicle as dice show
    • If all movement was on the road you may optionally now take another movement using the road die
      • same rules apply as a normal movement
    • Coast = move 1 space only, Road die can not be used
  • Shoot with that car
    • you can shoot vehicles, wrecks, but not choppers, in your front arc
    • if a wreck takes damange it is eliminated
    • you may shoot after resolving a slam
    • you may shoot your own cars
    • Roll the shooting die, hit is a match on size
    • owner of damaged car draws and resolces a damage effect

During Play

• Moving off the front of map triggers next tile to appear (or they win)
• vehicles on last tile are eliminated
• if a player is out of the game, next tile becomes the last tile