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Draw a merchant from your bag, place it in the shared market, take the action associated with its destination and color, collect or exchange resources, spend goods and lion coins on property cards, improve your tableau, then score buildings and end-game bonuses when the property deck reaches its trigger.

Deal trait cards, take turns playing each card face down as a new animal or face up as an adaptation, roll for the shared food supply, feed animals and resolve predators and defensive traits, discard any animal that remains unfed, refill hands, and score surviving animals plus their traits after the deck ends.

Push your luck for bigger rewards while risk keeps building.

Cover spaces on a grid to build a spatial scoring plan.

Set up the hex map and action cards, choose an available action on your turn, resolve its primary effect, let opponents follow with the secondary effect, place or upgrade houses, palaces, squares, and temple columns, claim city value, then score connected construction and objectives when the end condition is reached.

Build the tower from treasure cards, place all thieves at the balcony, move downward any number of floors each turn, take one treasure from the floor you reach, never move upward, exit across the bridge for an early bonus, then score coins, item majorities, artifact sets, and curses.

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

Take the same twenty-four-card dojo deck as every rival, draw a hand, secretly choose a ninja, reveal together, take the round’s penalty in each suit if yours is highest, remove every played card, return unplayed cards for later rounds, and finish three rounds with the fewest penalty points.

Build the starting archipelago, alternate turns choosing reinforcement, voyage, or attack, use ships to support exploration and naval assaults, play god cards for tactical effects, regroup forces after reinforcement, and win by controlling ten cities at the end of your turn.

Place tiles carefully to build spatial scoring patterns.

Set out the resource and building markets, collect income, trade with the supply or other players, spend matching resources on roads, settlements, cities, knights, and metropolises, resolve events after settlements, claim route and army bonuses, and reach seven victory points first.

Collect and trade planet cards, play sets to send merchant cubes to one of seven worlds, pass the cubes through the planet ring, place surviving stations, develop technology and ships, compete for planetary economic centers, and score the strongest interstellar trade network.

Choose prophets and prepare the kingdom map, apply the current king’s godliness, spread sin and idols, take prophet turns using action points to move, preach, gather, trade, and build altars, resolve cards and shortages, then complete the required altars before Assyria or corruption ends the game.

Use clues and contradictions to deduce hidden information.

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.

Place workers to claim actions and turn resources into plans.

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.

Build routes and networks to connect locations efficiently.

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.