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Map Tiles

Map tiles represent the land that the Heroes are exploring.

Each tile consists of seven hexagonal spaces. Before the game, the Map tiles should be separated by their reverse sides:

Starting Tile (two-sided)

The starting tile is two sided. Each side displays a magic portal and a coastline - the coastline is different on each side, and defines the shape of the map for a given game.

The spaces which represent the sea cannot be occupied by Heroes. For the first scenario, we will need the side marked by a small "A" in the lower corner. …

One man's castle is another man's cardboard box (or maybe his RV, treehouse, igloo, or skyscraper).

In this fast-paced game of bidding and bluffing to get the highest-ranking properties, it isn't how much you pay for the properties, it is how much you sell them for.

Manage your money wisely during the bidding and property acquisition phase, then outsmart (or just outguess) your rival tycoons during the selling phase. Be the richest real estate mogul at the end of the game to win! …

Components

• Game board
• 5 Grandes (the large cubes) in 5 colors
• 155 Caballeros (the small cubes) in 5 colors (31 per color)
• 1 King (large black pawn)
• 1 Round marker (small black cube)
• 65 Power cards in 5 colors (numbered 1-13 in each color)
• 45 Action cards
• 9 Region cards (with rule summary on the backs)
• 5 Secret disks with pointers
• 1 Castle (Castillo)
• 2 Mobile scoreboards with the values "8/4/0" and "4/0/0"
• 1 Sample game sheet

Game Board

The board shows the 9 regions of Spain, 1 space to hold the Castillo, the success track along the edge of the board, and a round track with 9 game rounds and 3 horizontal scoring tracks. …

Solonauts

This is a solitaire game in which the challenge is to get eight Chrononauts home on a single pass through the deck. It's a great way to learn the ins and outs the TimeLine when you don't have any opponents on hand for a full game.

Number of Players: one.

Setup

Remove and set aside all the Artifacts, Gadgets, Actions, Timewarps, and Missions. Shuffle the Patches and Inverters together, and set up the TimeLine as usual.

Then deal out eight random ID cards, and arrange them face-up underneath the TimeLine. Finally, deal out five cards from the reduced play deck, and line them up under the characters. …

All Action cards have a similar design. On each card, there is a:

• Card type (in the upper left corner)
• Card name
• Hero symbol (top right) to see which Hero it belongs to.
• Picture
• Basic effect (the text directly under the picture)
• Stronger effect (the colored gem between the basic and the stronger effect - note the entire card is toned to that color, and whenever a card or effect relates to "Action card color", this is the color being referred to).

Card Types

The symbol in the upper left corner determines when this card can be played. …

Selected Artifacts

Feather In Cap

For example, if you correctly predict the result of mixing toad and scorpion and then correctly predict the result of mixing toad and fern, you get 3 points because you used 3 different ingredients.

Special case: If you also have the Magic Mortar, a colleague will randomly choose 1 card to be set aside for Feather in Cap and the other will be returned to your hand. Once you know which card is returning to your hand, you can decide to not use the Magic Mortar and leave both cards set aside to be counted for Feather in Cap. …

Advanced Game

Once players get familiar with the game, you can agree to use the B-sides of the factory boards. During set-up, first determine player order.

Then, starting with the last player and proceeding in reverse player order, each player in turn picks one factory board and places it in front of themselves with the B-side facing up. Each factory provides its owner a special power:

Sumato

Cheap and classy: Before the game begins, take the oval marker with the green City car. This counts as an extra city car tile. …

This section provides additional rules required to play Fury of Dracula. For further clarifications or specific game effect interactions not covered here, see the Rules Reference.

Dawn And Dusk

During the hunter phase, dawn occurs before day and dusk occurs before night. During dawn and dusk, players advance time and then fight Dracula if he is revealed.

The time track has both day and night spaces. At dawn, the time marker advances from a night space to a day space, and at dusk, the time marker advances from a day space to a night space. Each day and night space has an abbreviation for a day of the week. …

Advance the depicted number of spaces on the Emperor track.

Take a dish or drink of the depicted color. Place it on a guest's order or in your Kitchen.

Take a dish or drink of your choice. Place it on a guest's order or in your Kitchen.

You receive 2 Victory Points.

Prepare a room of your choice, according to the placement rules. You must pay the cost.

Prepare a room of your choice, according to the placement rules. You must pay the cost minus 1 krone. …

To play the game with two players, the following rule changes apply.

Setup

Set up the two-player game as a four-player game with a few minor changes to the steps below, as well as one additional step:

5. Choose Colors and Arrange Seating: The players sit next to each other. Each player chooses one color to be his main color and the other to be his neutral color. He takes the nine character cards of both colors and all the plastic astronauts of both colors. …