Game rules: quick reference

• Sets. A group is 3 or 4 tiles of the same number in different colours (red 7, blue 7, black 7). A run is 3 or more numbers in a row in one colour (blue 4-5-6). 1 is always low: 12-13-1 doesn't count.
• Your first play must be worth 30 points or more, using only tiles from your own rack. Example: red 10-11-12 is 33 points. You can't use tiles already on the table for it. A joker counts as the tile it stands for.
• Your turn: play at least one tile from your rack, or draw one tile from the pool and your turn ends.
• Rearranging. After your first play you may split, join and move sets on the table, as long as every set is valid at the end of your turn and at least one tile came from your rack.
• Winning. The first player to empty their rack wins. Everyone else counts the tiles left on their rack; a joker left on your rack counts 30.

• Your train. Everyone builds their own train from the hub towards themselves. Touching ends must match: a 5 touches a 5.
• The Mexican train is a shared train anyone can play on. It starts with a domino that matches the centre double.
• Can't play? Draw one domino and play it if you can. If you still can't, put your marker on your train. Now anyone may play on your train, until you play on it again.
• Doubles. Lay a double sideways. It must be covered with another domino before anyone plays anywhere else. If you can't cover it, draw one; if you still can't, mark your train, and the next player must cover it.
• Down to one domino? Tap the table or say "one left".
• End of a round. When someone plays their last domino, or nobody can play and the boneyard is empty. Everyone adds up the dots on the dominoes left in their hand. That is their score for the round.

• Beat what's on the table. Play one or more cards of the same number that sit next to each other in your hand. More cards beat fewer cards: three 1s beat two 4s. The same number of cards: higher wins: two 7s beat two 4s.
• Take the beaten cards. Put them anywhere in your hand (you may split them up), or discard them.
• Or go to the Jungo. Draw the top card and either put it anywhere in your hand, discard it, or shout "Jungo!" and play it straight away (with matching cards next to each other in your hand if you like).
• Double cards count as either of their two numbers. Say which when you play one on its own.
• Nobody beats you? At the start of your next turn, discard your cards on the table and play anything you like.
• Winning. The first to empty their hand wins the round. The box says the first to win 2 rounds wins the game; we play to 3 (see house rules).

• Start of your turn: draw until you hold 5 cards.
• Building piles in the middle are shared, up to 4 at a time. Each starts with a 1 and goes up one number at a time to 12. A Skip-Bo card can be any number. A finished pile (up to 12) is set aside.
• Play as many cards as you can from your hand, the top of your stockpile, or the top of your discard piles.
• Played all 5 cards in your hand? Draw 5 more and keep going.
• End your turn by putting one card from your hand on one of your own discard piles. You can have up to 4, in any order.
• Winning: the first player to play the last card of their stockpile wins.

• Match the top card by colour, number or symbol. A Wild card can always be played; you choose the colour.
• Can't play? Draw one card. If it can be played, you may play it straight away.
• Action cards: Skip (the next player misses a turn), Reverse (change direction; with 2 players it works like Skip), Draw Two (the next player draws 2 and misses a turn), Wild Draw Four (the next player draws 4 and misses a turn; only allowed when you have no card of the current colour).
• One card left? Say "Uno!" If someone catches you before the next player starts, draw 2.
• The first to play their last card wins the round.
• Card values: number cards = their number; Skip, Reverse and Draw Two = 20; Wild and Wild Draw Four = 50.

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On your turn, do one of these:

• Draw 2 train cards, face up or from the deck. A face-up locomotive (rainbow card) counts as both of your draws.
• Claim a route. Pay cards of the route's colour, one per space. Grey routes take any one colour. Locomotives are wild.
• Draw 3 destination tickets and keep at least 1.

If 3 locomotives are face up at once, discard all 5 and lay out 5 new ones.

• Route points: 1 car = 1, 2 = 2, 3 = 4, 4 = 7, 5 = 10, 6 = 15.
• End. When someone has 2 or fewer cars left, everyone gets one last turn, them included. Completed tickets add their points; unfinished tickets take them away. The longest continuous route scores 10 more.

• Roll 2 dice. Every hex with that number pays its resource: 1 card per settlement next to it, 2 per city.
• Costs. Road: brick + lumber. Settlement: brick + lumber + wool + grain. City: 3 ore + 2 grain (it replaces a settlement). Development card: ore + wool + grain.
• Spacing. Settlements must be at least two road lengths apart.
• Trading. On your turn, trade with anyone, or with the bank at 4 of one kind for 1. A harbour you've built on gives 3:1 or 2:1.
• Rolling a 7. Anyone with more than 7 cards discards half (round down). Move the robber and steal 1 card from a player next to it.
• Development cards. Play at most one per turn, never on the turn you bought it.
• Bonus points. Longest road (5 or more): 2 points. Largest army (3 or more knights): 2 points.
• Winning. The first to reach 10 points on their own turn wins.

• Place a tile. Draw one tile and add it so every edge matches its neighbours: road to road, city to city, field to field.
• Place a meeple (optional). Put one meeple on the tile you just placed: on a road, city, monastery or field. Not on a road, city or field that already has a meeple on it.
• Score finished features straight away and take the meeple back. Road: 1 point per tile. City: 2 points per tile, plus 2 per shield. Monastery: 9 points once all 8 tiles around it are placed.
• Sharing. If features join and have several meeples, whoever has the most meeples scores. A tie: all of them score in full.
• End. When the last tile is placed. Unfinished road: 1 per tile. Unfinished city: 1 per tile plus 1 per shield. Unfinished monastery: 1 plus 1 per tile around it. Each farmer (meeple lying in a field): 3 points per finished city that field touches.

On your turn, do one of these:

• Show. Play cards that sit next to each other in your hand and beat the cards in the middle. More cards beat fewer. With the same number of cards, a set (all the same number) beats a run (numbers in a row), and higher beats lower. The beaten cards go face down in front of you: 1 point each.
• Scout. Take one card from either end of the cards in the middle and put it anywhere in your hand, either way up. The player you took it from gets a Scout chip: 1 point.
• Scout & Show. Once per round, use your chip to scout and then show in the same turn.

End of a round: someone empties their hand, or everyone else scouts until the turn comes back to the player who showed last. Score: +1 for each card won, +1 for each Scout chip, −1 for each card left in your hand. The player whose show nobody beat doesn't lose points for their hand.

Play as many rounds as there are players. The highest total wins.

• Discover. The active player turns cards into the harbour one at a time and stops whenever they like.
• Ships pay coins. You may push a ship away if your people show at least as many swords as the ship. Ships with a skull can't be pushed away.
• Bust. A second ship of a colour already in the harbour, that you can't push away, ends your turn with nothing.
• Trade & hire. Take 1 card if there are 0–3 ship colours in the harbour, 2 cards for 4 colours, 3 cards for 5 colours. Then each other player may take 1 card by paying you 1 coin.
• Tax increase. Anyone with 12 or more coins loses half (round down).
• Expeditions. Hand in the people shown on an expedition to claim it and its points.
• End. When someone reaches 12 points, finish the round so everyone has the same number of turns. The most points wins; a tie goes to the most coins.

• Move your merchant stack 1 or 2 places, not diagonally.
• Leave or pick up an assistant at the place, then do the place's action. No assistant to leave or pick up: your turn ends (except at the fountain).
• Meeting another merchant: pay them 2 lira, or your turn ends. Nobody pays at the fountain.
• Governor: if you meet him, you may draw a bonus card, then pay 2 lira or discard a bonus card. Then roll the dice to move him.
• Smuggler: if you meet him, you may take 1 good of your choice, then pay 2 lira or 1 good. Then roll the dice to move him.
• Family member: catch another player's family member to send it to the police station, and take 3 lira or a bonus card.
• End. When someone reaches the ruby target, finish the round. Most rubies wins; ties go to the most lira left.

• Win by checkmate: the king is attacked and can't escape. A player may also resign.
• Draws: stalemate (the player to move has no legal move and isn't in check), not enough pieces left to checkmate, the same position three times, or both players agree.
• Castling: the king moves two squares towards a rook and the rook jumps over it. Not allowed if either piece has moved, or out of, through or into check.
• En passant: a pawn that moves two squares can be taken by an enemy pawn beside it, as if it had moved one, on the very next move only.
• Promotion: a pawn reaching the far side becomes any piece, usually a queen.

• Move towards your home board by the number on each die, one move per die. A double is played four times.
• You can't land on a point with 2 or more of your opponent's checkers.
• Hitting: landing on a single enemy checker sends it to the bar. A checker on the bar must come back in, in your opponent's home board, before you move anything else.
• Bearing off: once all 15 of your checkers are in your home board, you may take them off. The first to take off all 15 wins.
• Bigger wins: a gammon (the loser hasn't taken any checkers off) counts 2. A backgammon (the loser still has a checker on the bar or in the winner's home board) counts 3.

• Your turn: 4 actions (move, treat disease, build a research station, share knowledge, discover a cure). Then draw 2 player cards. Then infect cities.
• Hand limit: 7 cards.
• Discover a cure: hand in 5 cards of one colour at a research station. The Scientist needs only 4.
• The team wins by curing all 4 diseases.
• The team loses at the 8th outbreak, when any colour runs out of cubes, or when the player deck runs out.

• Your turn: kick open a door by turning over the top Door card. A monster: fight it. A curse: it hits you. Anything else: keep it.
• No monster? Play a monster from your hand and fight it, or take the next Door card face down.
• Fighting: your level plus your gear must beat the monster's level. Win: go up a level and take its treasure. Lose: try to run away (roll 5 or 6), or take the "bad stuff". Others may help you, or play cards against you.
• End of your turn: you may hold at most 5 cards. Give the extra cards to the lowest-level player.
• Winning: the first to reach level 10. That last level must come from killing a monster.

• The Card Czar reads out a black card.
• Everyone else plays a white card face down, or as many as the black card asks for.
• The Czar shuffles the answers, reads them out and picks a favourite. Whoever played it keeps the black card: 1 point.
• Refill to 10 white cards. The next player becomes Czar.