Citadels rules

card | 2-8 players | 20-60min

Setup

• Shuffle 8 character cards together.
• Shuffle the district deck.
• Each player gets 4 district cards and 2 gold.
• Oldest player starts with the crown.

Order of round

Remove Characters

Draw one character face down and, a number face up.

Choose Characters

The king chooses first and then the remaing cards are passed around the circle. Remaining cards are put face down on the table.

Play Turns

• play goes in character order (not seat order)
• Take an action (take 2 gold or draw 2 cards and keep 1)
• Build a distric card
• Use character power once

Gotchas

• If you draw the king face up when removing characters imediately replace it with another.
• you cant have two of the same district
• dead bishops cant protect angthing
• assassin/dead people cant be stolen from
• theif doesnt get gold till just before their victims turn

Scoring

When a player build 8 districts the game is over at the end of this round. Ties are settled by ammount of gold. You can build more than 8 districts if you have the means to do so.

• 1 point per gold cost of districts
• 3 points for having 1 of each of the five district colors
• 4 points for being the first to 8 districts
• 2 points for other players who made it to 8 districts