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Draw five cargo cards and an exchange token, take two actions per turn—or three while holding the passing Yardmaster token—to draw cargo, buy a railcar, or change your exchange token, connect cars only by matching value or good type, and reach sixteen points with two or three players or eighteen with four or five.

Choose an Illuminati society, collect income for every controlled group, draw an uncontrolled group, spend power and megabucks to attack its resistance—or attack a rival’s group—place captured cards into the limited arrows of your power structure, negotiate support and deals, and win by reaching your control target or special goal.

Commit presence to key areas and fight for influence where it matters.

Bluff, read opponents, and time reveals around hidden information.

Manage cards in hand to time plays, combos, and scoring windows.

Build a deck or pool that turns small actions into stronger combos.

Play disruptive cards to slow rivals and protect your own plan.

Play suited cards to win tricks and manage timing.

Push your luck for bigger rewards while risk keeps building.

Draft from shared options to assemble a plan over successive turns.

Use physical skill and timing to pull off the key moves.

Push your luck for bigger rewards while risk keeps building.

Predict your tricks, lead or play a number while declaring its color, mark that unique number-color result on the research board, follow the declared suit when possible, avoid an impossible declaration and paradox, then score bids, tricks, and connected research tokens.

Build a deck or pool that turns small actions into stronger combos.

Prepare the current chapter’s story deck and tracker, read the top card, choose an option, adjust resources and items, then rotate, flip, resolve, or reinsert the card exactly as its icons direct; continue until the story reaches one of thirteen endings.

Draw a hand, play one pirate or a matching set, resolve crew abilities and attacks, spend coins or treasure to recruit from the market, then compare the pirates in play as poker hands; collect rewards and repeat until the final score.

Collect matching sets while timing when to score or trade them.

Choose a family, place henchmen among the five city sites, collect and play cards from occupied districts, resolve dice, reserve, and take-that effects, then score prestige at the end of each day; win after four days or by reaching the prestige threshold.

Build a deck or pool that turns small actions into stronger combos.

Deal populations and cards, use propaganda and secrets during the cold war, then program delivery systems and warheads when hostilities begin; resolve defenses, special effects, the misfunction die, population losses, and final retaliation until one power remains.

Build a deck or pool that turns small actions into stronger combos.

Draw and arrange a daily routine, resolve matching activity patterns and card effects, gain inspiration and money, acquire habits, jobs, muses, and encounters, manage hardship, and complete masterpieces and achievements before final scoring.

Build a deck or pool that turns small actions into stronger combos.

Build a deck or pool that turns small actions into stronger combos.