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Scouting Spots Bonuses

If you own the Boat on this spot, score 3 VP (instead of 1 VP) for each silver Gem drawn on this Tile (provided you stayed in the dive until the end).

If you own the Boat on this spot, score 5 VP (instead of 2 VP) for each gold Gem drawn on this Tile (provided you stayed in the dive until the end).

If you own the Boat on this spot, score 10 VP (instead of 4 VP) for each red Gem drawn on this Tile (provided you stayed in the dive until the end). …

Welcome to Paperback! You are a group of novelists trying to complete paperback novels for Fame! The player with the most Fame at the end of the game wins.

Components

• 17 wood Cubes
• 11 Dividers
• 66 Letter Cards
• 8 2c Vowels
• 20 Two-Letter Cards
• 11 Attack Cards
• 50 Starting Deck Cards
• 28 Fame cards(Wild)
• 6 Common Cards
• 5 Player Powers
• 6 Theme Cards
• 4 Award Cards

Setup

Give each player their starting cards for their deck - These are the 1c K T,R,S,L and N cards and five of the 2c Fame cards. …

Welcome to the world of the entrepreneurs. In Factory Manager, each player has a factory and tries to earn as much money as he can during the game. Thus, at the end the player with most money wins.

To do so, a player must plan carefully, effectively use his workers and acquire the best machines and robots, and operate his factory efficiently. A player must also keep track of his factory's energy consumption and watch the ever-rising cost of energy, so that running his factory does not cost too much.. …

Some spaces on the Racetrack feature Challenges. These spaces provide various Race Effects if a certain requirement is fulfilled. Some Challenges are represented on the Challenge tiles, which can be placed on the board during setup. The following rules apply to Challenges, unless stated otherwise by a specific Challenge:

• If a Challenge requires that you discard something, but you don't have the necessary resources, you cannot generate the associated Race Effect(s).

• When moving your Inventor Pawn multiple spaces, you cannot pause at Challenge spaces to execute them along the way. Exceptions to this rule include Glaciers and Crowds, which are automatically activated immediately when your Inventor Pawn enters that space. …

Players use the 3 green role cards to get new ingredients.

Wolf keeper, Snake hunter, and Herb collector: depending on the role card won, the player with the full action right, takes either three red (wolf blood), three white (snake venom), or three green (herb juice) drops from the supply in the middle of the table and places them in his play area.

The player(s) who choose the favor by saying, "So be it!", can take either a red, white, or green drop from the supply, depending on the role card played. …

Components

• 1 Card Blaster
• 18 Blue Cards - 1 to 9
• 18 Green Cards - 1 to 9
• 18 Red Cards - 1 to 9
• 18 Yellow Cards - 1 to 9
• 8 Draw One Cards
• 8 Reverse Cards
• 8 Skip Cards
• 4 Discard Color Cards
• 4 Wild Cards
• 6 Wild Blast Cards

Object of the Game

Have a blast as you race to get rid of all of your cards while trying to avoid triggering the Card Blaster!

You'll score points in each round for the cards your opponents are left holding. Points in rounds accumulate and the first player to reach 500 points wins. …

This is the 4th addition to the game of Dominion. It adds 25 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus 2 new Basic cards that let players keep building up past Gold and Province. The central theme is wealth: there are treasures with abilities, cards that interact with treasures, and powerful expensive cards.

Dominion: Prosperity is an expansion, and cannot be played by itself; to play with it, you need Dominion, or a standalone expansion to Dominion (e.g., Dominion: Intrigue). Those provide the Basic cards you need to play (Treasure, Victory, and Curse cards), as well as the full rules for setup and gameplay. …

Noctiluca can also be played as a solo game, where the tranquility of the pool has been disrupted, and you must rescue as many noctiluca as you can before they are scattered by the troubled waters.

The solo game follows all the rules for the multiplayer game, with the following changes:

Setup

Use the numbered board side. Place the black die near the board. Take only six pawns; set the other six pawns aside.

Instead of separating the jar cards into multiple piles, shuffle them together and place them near the board as a single facedown deck. …

Components

• 98 game pieces
• 120 cards
• 17 terrain tiles, fishing ground tiles, and sea frame pieces
• 40 gold coin counters (25 small, 15 large)
• 3 Special Cards/Tiles
• 21 Catan chits
• 36 commodity tokens
• 30 fish tokens
• 1 variants & scenarios rules booklet

The Game

The barbarians have been driven off, and peace is returning. The destruction the barbarians left in their wake is being repaired as fast as possible.

The castle where the Council of Catan holds session suffered particularly severe damage, but the restoration efforts are making real progress.

Now, the craftsmen need to finish the stained glass windows and the new marble statues. Marble must be transported from the quarry, sand must be brought to the glassworks, glass must be delivered to the Castle, and tools are needed as well. …

Architect's Guild

You may choose not to use the ability of the Architect's Guild, but you cannot use it later. The buildings you place may be the same type or 2 different types. You cannot change buildings into monuments, since they are not in the general supply.

Archive of the Second Age

It does not matter where buildings are located for scoring this monument.

Barrett Castle

For all building scoring, Barrett Castle counts as 2 and not a

Cathedral of Caterina

This applies only to empty squares on your own board. …