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Deal each player a starting row, draw and place one animal on your turn, resolve that animal’s power, rearrange or disrupt rows as directed, complete a group of four matching animals to earn a half crown, and win by collecting two half crowns or satisfying the full-crown condition.

Compete for contested options while managing cost and timing.

Draw a secret shepherd color and four landscape tiles, place one tile per turn with all edges matching, draw as many replacements as the placed tile touches, reveal your color when the timing is worthwhile, use hunters to counter wolves, and score the sheep in your largest completed safe enclosure.

Use clues and contradictions to deduce hidden information.

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.

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

Replenish building materials, program every Viking’s destination in secret, reveal together, resolve collisions with strength cards, award resources and send defeated Vikings to hospital, build or raid fortress walls, and finish with the most valuable completed stronghold.

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.

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.

Choose a constellation size, reveal the corresponding tile, copy its pattern onto the visible section of your star disc, score the stars it connects, rotate the sky as directed, and repeat for six rounds before final scoring.

Draft factions, form an alliance of up to three, produce resources, spend action discs to explore, colonize, trade, develop, research, and build fleets, resolve war and galactic phases, then score planets, technology, influence, and ideology when exploration is complete.

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

Collect income and cards, contribute two cards to the color auctions, bid for each group, add won cards to your tableau, then use matching building sets and money to construct cities, place influence, contest court roles, and score the map when the end condition is reached.

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.

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.

Balance the loaded wooden plate on its cork ball, then take turns removing one piece—or declare a two-piece lift—without touching or tipping the plate; keep successful pieces, pay one back for an abandoned attempt, and count collections when the structure falls.

Add one tile to the shared garden, check the connected habitats it creates, resolve bees, hummingbirds, and other creature arrivals in order, collect the earned creature tiles, refill the display, and finish with the richest collection.

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

Roll three white and three black dice, remove exactly two after each roll, pair the final dice into actions, record two actions on your development sheet, allow every opponent to copy one available pair, and score labs, bots, crystals, submarines, and octopods after six rounds.