Suburbia

Setup: each player starts with $15, three investments, income 0, reputation 1 and population 2. Arrange the starting Suburbs, Community Park and Heavy Factory as illustrated; do not resolve them again as newly placed buildings. Draw two private goals and keep one secretly. Reveal one public goal per player. Prepare the A/B/C stacks and bury the One More Round tile using the player-count instructions, then reveal seven A tiles into the market. For 2/3/4 players use A stacks of 14/18/22, B stacks of 12/15/20 and C stacks of 17/23/29. Mix One More Round with 6/9/12 C tiles respectively, put that packet below the C stack, then move its top five C tiles to the very bottom.

Turn: choose exactly one development option—buy a market building, buy a basic tile, make a lake, or invest. Resolve placement effects, collect or pay income, adjust population using reputation, then refill the market. Tile effects alter the tracks before the income and population steps. Income and reputation are limited to −5 through 15; population cannot fall below zero.

Buying and placement: pay the printed building price plus its market surcharge before placement. You cannot finance that payment with rewards the new building will produce. Place the tile in your own borough sharing a full edge with at least one existing tile; corner contact is insufficient. Do not overlap tiles or the borough board. Resolve the new tile’s immediate effect, its conditional effect, affected adjacent tiles, other tiles in your borough, and relevant interactions with other boroughs.

Basic tiles and lakes: buy an available basic tile at its printed price, then discard a market tile and pay only that position’s surcharge. For a lake, select a market tile, pay only its surcharge and place it facedown. Receive $2 per adjacent faceup building. Later faceup buildings placed beside the lake also pay; adjacent lakes do not pay for each other. A building beside two lakes triggers each separately.

Investment: pay an uninvested tile’s printed cost and put an investment on it instead of placing a building. Apply an additional copy of its effects, including penalties; future triggers are doubled too. A lake costs $0 to invest in. Investment does not trigger neighboring tiles as a new building and does not count the tile twice for goals. Afterwards discard a market tile, paying its position surcharge only.

Income and reputation: positive income pays cash; negative income costs cash. Pay what you have and lose one population for each unpaid dollar, stopping at zero population. Then apply reputation to population. If negative reputation would move below zero, pay $1 for each remaining negative point, stopping when cash runs out. Cash in hand and the income track are different quantities.

Red lines and refill: each upward crossing immediately reduces income and reputation by one; a downward crossing increases each by one. Resolve every crossed line, including population changes from buildings. Slide the market right to fill the gap and add a new tile on the left, drawing from A, then B, then C. Every normal turn removes and replaces one market tile, even when investing or buying a basic tile.

Ending and scoring: when One More Round appears, remove it, draw its replacement and finish the current round; then play one complete additional round starting with the start player. All players receive equal turns. Score public goals for a unique leader only. A private goal scores only for its owner, who must uniquely meet the condition against all players; ties earn no goal reward. Then convert each $5 into one population, keeping the remainder. These final population awards do not trigger red lines. Highest population wins, with ties broken by reputation, income, then unconverted cash. The rulebook calls for another game between still-tied players if all those comparisons remain equal.