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- Page 2 Bernhard Manz, Karin & Albrecht Manz, Elisabeth Schiffer, Dominik Wagner, Britta & Volker Waßmuth, and the Rosenheimer game group. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, please send them to: Rio Grande Games PO Box 45715 Rio Rancho, NM 87174, USA E-Mail: RioGames@aol.com...
- Page 3 It is New York in the 1930’s. The building boom has reached its zenith. Above all, the skyscrapers on the famous Fifth Avenue tower over the city. But who will find the best building plots? Where are the fanciest boutiques and the choicest galleries? Who has the most sought jeweler in his neighborhood? In the end, victory points (VP) will decide the winner! OVERVIEW...
- Page 4 PREPARATION Place the game board in the middle of the table. It shows 7 districts, each divided into 5 different colored building plots. On the left is City Hall (the starting space for the commissioners with 4 white and 4 beige colored spots). On the right is Central Park (the ending space for the commissioners).The scoring track runs around the board.
- Page 5 Special rules for playing with 2 players When playing with 2 players, use all the normal rules, but with the following changes: there is a third, imaginary player, that we have named Alea (= “a lucky energetic adversary"). The preparation for 2 players is identical to that for 3 and 4 players. For Alea, there is no preparation, except that all the skyscrapers in one of the two unchosen colors are placed next to the board in the general skyscraper supply.
- Page 7 GAME END The game ends when one of the following two situations occurs: 1) A player places one of the last two businesses from the supply row on a building plot and, of course, places the last business in the area below Central Park.The game ends immediately (the player does not take his 2nd and 3rd actions).
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Page 8: Playing The Game
PLAYING THE GAME The following rules are for 3 or 4 players. The special rules for 2 players are on page 11. The starting player begins and play continues from there in clockwise order. On a player’s turn, he has four choices (A, B, C, or D), of which he must execute one completely on his turn: first, the 1st action, then, the 2nd action, and finally, the 3rd action. - Page 9 D) take 2 black cards If the player has chosen as his 1st action to score a district, he must take as his 2nd action take 2 black cards. He takes the top- most 2 cards from the face down black stack and adds them to his hand, without showing them to the other players.
- Page 10 Building stop When all building plots in a district have skyscrapers or businesses on them before the auction, the winner of the auction may choose to either add buildings (also, fewer than allowed as normal) to his building plot in the district (if he has one) or to declare a building stop in this district.
- Page 11 (2) The player has no skyscrapers in this district and there is at least one empty building plot in the district: In this case, he can may only choose one of the colors that matches one of the empty building plots in the district. Of course, he can always use black cards in addition to the colored cards.
- Page 12 Note: A player may not move a commissioner to a district with a building stop marker (see more on this under “Building stop"). Instead, the player simply skips over the building stopped district (because of this, the path for a commissioner from starting space to Central Pa rk may be fewer than four turns).
- Page 13 After the sixth business is placed on a building plot (the first four sets are completely empty), each player immediately earns 6 victory points if he has at least 1 skyscraper in each of at least four different districts (not the area below Central Park).
- Page 14 The auctions When a player moves a commissioner from Central Park back to City Hall, the game is immediately interrupted for a set of auctions in the districts recently visited recently by this commissioner (shown by the matching commissioner markers) and Central Park.The auctions occur in the districts one at a time, starting with the first district visited, and continuing in the order visited until the Central Park auction.After each auction, the players return the matching commissioner marker from that district to the appropriate spot in City Hall.