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The grid-set in this manual is just a starting point. Have an idea for your own design? Try it out!

Matrix is incredibly flexible and modular. Modify the grid-set and test out new designs at any time.

The rules are also totally flexible. As long as all players agree, feel free to tweak and test. Share your best inventions at the Gridopolis website!

More Players

The instructions show how two to four people can play together. But - that is not the limit! …

Components

• 1 UNO Spin Wheel
• 19 Blue Cards - 0 to 9
• 19 Green Cards - 0 to 9
• 19 Red Cards - 0 to 9
• 19 Yellow Cards - 0 to 9
• 8 Draw Two Cards
• 8 Reverse Cards
• 8 Skip Cards
• 4 Wild Cards
• 4 Wild Draw Four Cards
• 4 Wheel Reference Cards

Object of the Game

Be the first player to score 500 points. Points are scored by getting rid of all the cards in your hand before your opponent(s). You score points for cards left in your opponents' hands.

Setup

Place the Wheel Reference cards nearby; these will help you identify the icons on the wheel whenever it is spun. …

This delightful game is simple and easy to play, even for children who can't read. Fun pictures help kids understand the rewards of doing good deeds as they climb up the ladders and the consequences of naughty ones as they slide down the chutes.

Components

• Gameboard
• Spinner with plastic arrow
• 4 Pawns with plastic stands

Object of the Game

Be the first player to reach "Winner" square #100.

The first time you play

1. Punch out the 4 pawns from the cardboard sheet. Put each pawn into a plastic stand. …

Components

• 1game board
• 85 tracks
• 35 city cards in 5 colors
• 6start markers to mark the track networks
• 6 locomotives as scoring markers
• 1 starting player card 1game rules

Setup

• Place the game board in the middle of the table.

• Place 1 track as a barrier on the red double-line 1 on the scoring track. The barrier marks the game end.

• Place the remaining 84 tracks next to the board as a supply for all.

• Each player chooses a color, places the start marker in that color on the table before him, and places the locomotive in that color as a scoring marker on the engine house. …

Action Bar - Row of 9 Action Slots along the top of the C.C. Board. Players place Action Tokens on these slots to perform these Actions OR place Serfs to Follow or Muster an Action.

• Capital Actions - 4 Action Slots (Recruit, Build, Research, and Tax) selected by a player on their turn and can be Followed by other players using a Serf from their Courtyard.

• Command Actions - 5 Action Slots (March, March, Sail, Fly, and Cast) selected by a player on their turn, who may also choose to Muster to take a second Command Action, marking it with a Serf from their Courtyard. …

Now Boarding is a cooperative, simultaneous-play game for 2-5 players. You and your fellow pilots must coordinate your efforts to pick up and deliver passengers, improve your airplanes and access new flight paths.

But make sure your passengers are satisfied! If you can deliver all of your passengers before you receive 3 complaints, all players win. If you get too many complaints, you'll be out of business.

Air travel has always been an exciting endeavor, traveling across the continent in style at 30,000 feet. To do that, you'll have to understand the pieces of your growing aviation empire: …

Components

• 1 plastic game unit with POP-O-MATIC
• die roller
• gameboard
• 16 plastic playing pegs
• 4 rubber gameboard feet.

Object of the Game

Be the first player to move all four of your colored pegs around the game board and into your FINISH line.

During the game, try to send your opponents' pegs back to HOME.

Setup

1. Each player selects 4 pegs of one color and places them in the matching color HOME. If only two people are playing, each can play with two sets of pegs if desired. …

Components

• 15 cards
• Instructions

Setup

1. Remove the Exploding Kittens (4) and Defuse Cards (6) from your Exploding Kittens deck as normal.

   
   
   

2. Remove the Exploding Kitten (1) from the Streaking Kittens expansion deck.

3. Combine the 14 remaining Streaking Kittens expansion cards with the rest of the cards from the main deck and shuffle the deck.

   
   
   

4. Deal 7 cards face down to each player.

   
   
   

5. Deal 1 Defuse Card to each player for a total hand of 8 cards per player. Keep your hand secret.

   
   
   

6. Insert enough Exploding Kittens back into the deck so that the total number of Kittens is equal to the number of players - this is 1 more Exploding Kitten than normal because the Streaking Kitten Card allows a player to hold an Exploding Kitten in their hand without exploding! …

Components

• 288 tiles
• Storage Bag
• Instructions

Setup

Place all 288 tiles face down in the center of the table. These tiles are referred to as the BUNCH. For games of 2-4 people, each player takes 21 tiles from the BUNCH; 5-6 players, 15 tiles; 7 or more players, 11 tiles. Keep your tiles face down.

Now The Game Begins.

Game Play

Any one player calls out SPLIT! All I players turn their own tiles face up I and proceed to form their OWN connecting and intersecting word grid. Words may be horizontal or vertical, reading left to right to bottom. …

Components

• 1 gameboard
• 432 question-and-answer cards
• 6 card holders
• 6 track pawns
• 6 scoring tokens
• 36 scoring wedges
• 1 die

Object of the Game

To be the first player (or team) to fill all six spaces on your Scoring Token with different colored wedges by correctly answering questions. Get back to the center first and answer a final question correctly to win!

Setup

1. Unwrap the card packs and, facing them the same way, place each deck in its matching card holder as shown.

   
   
   

2. Each player or team takes an empty scoring token and places it on the center space of the gameboard. …