Build a shared landscape of roads, cities and monasteries. Your limited supply of followers makes choosing where to claim points as important as placing the next tile.
Play style
Competitive
Suggested age
7+
Time to teach
About 8 min
Time to set up
About 2 min
Player elimination
No
How it plays
Tile placementArea control
Rules at a glance
Base game. Farmers and the included mini-expansions add rules beyond this introduction.
Your goal
Score the most points from completed features during play and unfinished features in final scoring.
The flow of play
1
Draw and place one land tile so that all touching edges match
2
Optionally place a meeple on an unclaimed feature of the tile you just placed
3
Score any completed roads, cities or monasteries and return their meeples
A quick introduction to the base game. Use your edition’s rulebook for full setup, card effects and exceptions.