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Compete for contested options while managing cost and timing.

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.

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

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 nations and set the 1850 starting state, resolve historical events and crises, allocate production and resources, enact policies, negotiate support and shared commitments, update population, prosperity, and environmental tracks, then cooperate to reach 2060 without crossing the game’s global limits.

Place workers to claim actions and turn resources into plans.

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.

Mark choices on a sheet to build patterns and complete objectives.

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.

Use clues and contradictions to deduce hidden information.

Assign values one through six across your colored dice, take turns leading landings by spending a die and sailing a boat to a harbour, let rivals follow, place keyples to claim work, then resolve occupied harbours for resources and actions, improve skills and buildings, and score the strongest network after three years.

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.

Play suited cards to win tricks and manage timing.

Push your luck for bigger rewards while risk keeps building.

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.

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.

Place tiles carefully to build spatial scoring patterns.

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

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