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You are an artist working in the fast-paced world of art. Various art patrons are commissioning great works of art, and you must hurry to get them.

Object of the Game

Earn as many points as you can before commissions run out or you... starve.

Setup

Follow standard set up, but only use 35 Canvas Cards. Set any unused Canvas Cards aside, they won't be used this game. You may also wish to remove the zero-point, comic book Canvas cards from the deck. …

Human Player Strategy

The ultimate goal for the human players is to conserve enough resources to travel eight units of distance and then jump to Kobol. This makes their immediate goal to preserve resources, and their long-term goal to travel enough distance.

On the Humans' Turns

Two things need to be taken into account during a human player's turn: first, which resources are in the most danger, and second, which actions are available to the player.

Each character type has a particular specialization. For example, pilots are good at piloting vipers and destroying Cylon ships, while political leaders are good at overcoming Crisis Cards and using the Quorum deck. …

As long as there is at least one Cylon ship on the game board, the fleet is considered to be in combat. Cylon ships are activated at the end of each turn, based upon the Crisis Card drawn.

This section describes the details of combat, including how to activate, attack, and pilot ships.

Cylon Attack Cards

When a Cylon attack Crisis Card is drawn, the following steps are performed as listed on the card:

1. Activate Existing Cylon Ships: Any existing Cylon ships are activated based upon the icon(s) listed on the card. If there are multiple icons listed, they are activated from left to right, following standard activation rules. …

Duration Cards

Adventures has Duration cards, previously introduced in Seaside. Duration cards are orange, and have an ability that does something on a future turn. Duration cards are not discarded in Clean-up if they have something left to do; they stay in play until the Clean-up of the last turn that they do something.

Additionally, if a Duration card is played multiple times by a card such as Disciple or Throne Room, that card also stays in play until the Duration card is discarded, to track the fact that the Duration card was played multiple times. …

Game Components

• Game Board
• 10 Character Sheets
• 52 Cardboard Tokens
• 110 Large Cards
• 128 Small Cards
• 1 Eight-sided Die
• 32 Plastic Ships
• 4 Plastic Connectors
• 10 Plastic Character Stands
• Rulebook

Setup

Follow these steps to prepare to play Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game.

1. Place Game Board: Place the game board at the center of the table. Set the food and fuel dials to "8", the morale dial to "10", and the population dial to "12".

2. Set Up Tokens and Ships: Place the eight vipers and four raptors in the "Viper and Raptor Reserves" space of the game board. Then place the fleet token on the start space of the Jump Preparation track. Last, place all other tokens (facedown) and plastic ships adjacent to the game board. …

• There is a world championship competition for Cluedo every few years.

• Standard Clue(do) provides 324 possible outcomes, the Gift and 50th anniversary editions boost it up to 378 with the addition of a 7th weapon.

• In an episode of Northern Exposure, the leads play a surreal game of Clue in which the man imagines the girl to be Miss Scarlet.

• The 1963 Clue can be briefly seen in the current film Toy Story 2.

• The United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Portugal, and Sweden all had a version of the Cluedo televsion series, but not America. …

Attack

In a game of Kemet, waiting is usually not a winning strategy. One of the most common ways to earn Victory Points is to win a fight as the attacker. This means that it is sometimes appropriate to abandon a position that seems good in order to push your luck and try attacking your opponent. It also means that each one of your troops is a potential target.

A Kemet game can be very fast (usually 4 to 7 turns), and even if you've accumulated many Powers in front of you, if your opponents are controlling the temples, retrieving Prayer and Victory Points at each end of turn, you may not achieve victory. …

Components

• Board map of North American train routes
• 240 colored train cars
• 144 Illustrated cards
• 5 Wooden Scoring Markers
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

The object of the game is to score points by:

• claiming a route between two adjacent cities on the map
• completing a continuous path of routes between two cities listed on your Destination Tickets.
• Completing the Longest Continuous Path of routes.

Note: Points are lost if you don't complete the route given on the Destination Tickets you kept.

Setup

While the map is placed in the center of the table, each player takes his set of 45 colored train cars and its matching scoring marker. The marker will be placed on start. …

Game Components

• 1 Tokyo Board
• 6 Monsters
• 6 Black Dice
• 6 Cardboard Figures
• 66 Power Cards
• Energy Cubes
• 28 Tokens and 2 Green Dice

Setup

The game plays clockwise. Each player rolls the 6 black dice. Whoever has the most results goes first. In case of tie, players roll dice until one player has the greatest number of .

Object of the Game

You are a gigantic Monster willing to do anything to become King of Tokyo.

Your rampage brings you glory in the form of Victory Points ().

To win, be the first Monster to gain 20 Victory Points. Or, get your claws out and eliminate your enemies. The last one standing claims victory! …