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