Be the first player to reach 40 Victory Points. You earn
points by building locations, by filling a whole neighbourhood, and by
reaching the goals on your Developer Agenda.
Local Business1 VPCulture2 VPPark2 VPLandmark3 VP
Develop a neighbourhoodBuild every slot, Landmark included.+5 VP each
Every player is dealt one Money card and one City card, then five
locations come up for bidding. The highest bid wins and pays right
away.
T
TURNS
Every player takes one full turn: build, play an event, collect
revenue, or use the Property Market.
E
END
Points are counted, hands are trimmed to seven cards, and the first player to reach 40 VP wins.
Good to know. Tied bids are settled by
one more round of bidding, then a die roll. Once per auction, on the first
lot only, you may burn a City Event or Appeal card to gain a Money card.
Money cards are spent whole and no change is given, so
anything you overpay goes to the bank. The one exception is the $5M rule:
overpay using a $5M bill and you draw a single Money card back. It is drawn
blind, so it may be worth more or less than you overpaid.
Your Turn
1
ACT
Build a location, play a City Event, collect revenue, or list a card
on the Property Market.
2
END
If you are holding more than seven cards, discard down to seven.
Building
Building is free. It costs one action and nothing else.
Take a location from your hand and build it into the neighbourhood it
belongs to. Fill every slot, Landmark included, to develop
that neighbourhood and score +5 VP. Once developed, nothing built there can
be stolen.
Neighbourhood Slots
Numbers = VP each slot scores. Build them up, then add a Landmark to develop the neighbourhood.
Downtown ★ DEVELOPED · +5 VP
BIZ+1vpBIZ+1vpCUL+2vpCUL+2vpPARK+2vpLMK+3vp
Grandview/Woodland
BIZ+1vpCUL+2vpCUL+2vpPARK+2vpLMK+3vp
Kitsilano
BIZ+1vpCUL+2vpPARK+2vpPARK+2vpPARK+2vpLMK+3vp
Mt Pleasant
BIZ+1vpBIZ+1vpCUL+2vpPARK+2vpLMK+3vp
Every neighbourhood has a Landmark slot.
Building the Landmark completes the neighbourhood and switches on its own
special ability.
Developer Agendas
In the first round every player is dealt two Developer Agenda
cards, face up to you and hidden from everyone else. Keep one and discard the
other. You can decide at any time, but you must decide by the
end of Round 3, and the choice is permanent. Each agenda sets
three goals of rising difficulty. You score the value of the highest goal you
have reached, so a bigger goal replaces the smaller score rather than adding
to it.
The Developer
MINFill all base slots in 1 neighbourhood5 VP
TARGETFully develop 1 neighbourhood12 VP
AMBITIOUSFully develop 2 neighbourhoods22 VP
Revenue Collection and Community Investment
Two different cards turn your built locations into money, and they do not
do the same thing. Revenue Collection collects what your rivals have spent
at your businesses. Community Investment spends your own money to fund the
arts or donate to a park.
Revenue Collection
Your rivals have been shopping at your businesses. Every opponent pays you $1M for each Local Business you own, up to $5M each. Anyone who cannot pay must forfeit one of their locations instead.
Community Investment
Fund the Arts: pay $1M per built Culture location to draw that many City cards. Park Donation: pay $1M per built Park to draw that many Money cards. Fund as many or as few as you like.
Civic Awards. Fund two or more Parks in a
single Community Investment to claim a Park award, or two or more Culture
locations to claim a Culture award. Each award is worth 1 VP
and can never be taken from you. Wildcards do not count toward it, and the
pool is limited, so once the awards run out there is nothing left to claim.
Property Market
L
LIST
List a location from your hand and draw one Money card.
B
BUY
Buy a listed location from the market for its property value.
C
CITY
Buy a card from the City Deck for $2M, once a turn.
Wildcards
Three cards fit wherever you need them. Each one is worth
1 VP when built, even when it fills a slot that a regular
card would score 2 VP in, and each has a property value of
$1M, which is what a rival pays to buy one out and what you
get back for selling it.
Food Truck
Fills any open Local Business slot in any neighbourhood. It counts for Revenue Collection and can move for $1M once a turn.
Public Art
Fills any open Culture slot in any neighbourhood, but it does not qualify for Community Investment funding.
Heritage Home
Fills any open Park slot in any neighbourhood, but it does not qualify for Community Investment funding.
🔰Round 1 is the grace round. Everyone
bids and takes a normal turn, but City Events and Revenue Collection are
blocked, so nobody can attack you while you are finding your feet. You have
until the end of Round 3 to commit to a Developer Agenda.
Achievements
Earned on this device, and kept for good. Locked ones show what to aim for.
Hall of Fame
The best scores players have posted. Finish a game and you can add yours.
Tips & Reminders
Everything the game has told you, or is about to. Nothing here is ever hidden.
