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

Deal three cards each, place the Basic Rules, draw one and play one, then obey every New Rule, collect Keepers, resolve Actions and Surprises, avoid troublesome Creepers, and win immediately when your Keepers satisfy the current Goal.

Build the three-level courtyard, choose Rivalry cards, take a marker and color supply, move up to one space, play a color card, place powder in its pattern, let powder fall through openings, collect sweets, and score joy after the festival ends.

Use clues and contradictions to deduce hidden information.

Give every player the same seven Sin cards, assign the Devil card, roll all seven dice, choose one unused Sin in secret, reveal and resolve the Sins in order, lock collected dice for scoring, award the white-die catch-up bonus, and crown the highest total after seven rounds.

Lay out wall sections with paired honor tokens, give each player an identical character deck, draw a hand, play one or two cards to a section, resolve special abilities, check for a unique influence leader, award the next token, and finish when the available honor is exhausted.

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

Deal the player-count-specific tile set and starting chips, let the holder of Cloud 3 lead, follow with the same tile count at a higher value or pass, reset the lead after all rivals pass, end the round when one rack empties, settle chip payments, and play five rounds.

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

Shuffle and deal the cards, play one card on your turn, resolve its printed instruction completely, protect or rebuild the words in your display, interrupt opponents when a card permits, and win the moment I, AM, and DONE appear in the required order before you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Choose a geisha, play each character either as a promoter to raise one talent or as an eligible guest for money and an effect, use your personal power, race to empty your hand, subtract leftover cards, and lead the total after three rounds.

Reveal the next item, either keep it or use its action, exchange and steal cards through purchase, rob, hold-up, trade, defense, and ambush effects, cash matching sets or assignments for points, move the Sheriff after scoring, and lead when the circuit or assignments run out.