A Feast for Odin

The long game lasts seven rounds and the short game six. In multiplayer, gain one Viking every round, including round one. During actions, take turns occupying one empty space with one to four Vikings as required by its column, then resolve it immediately. Passing ends your placements for that round; the last player to place becomes next round’s start player.

Place green and blue goods, silver and ore on home and exploration boards at any time, without overlap or overhang; placed pieces cannot be reclaimed. Green tiles cannot touch orthogonally, but may touch diagonally; blue tiles have no such restriction. Covering an income number also requires covering all spaces to its left, below it and in its bottom-left square.

Income pays silver based on each board’s smallest uncovered income number. The later Bonus phase awards uncovered goods symbols whose surrounding spaces are all filled. Each phase produces simultaneously across boards, so one board’s newly received income or bonus cannot increase another board’s production within that phase.

The feast fills Banquet Table spaces without Vikings using orange farm products, red animal products and silver only. Orange cannot touch orange, and red cannot touch red. Only one tile of each food type may lie horizontally; additional copies stand vertically, except square tiles. Each gap gives one permanent penalty worth minus three points. Served goods return to the supply.

Upgrades follow orange to red to green to blue while preserving shape and size. Upgrading two goods once does not upgrade one good twice. Overseas Trading requires a knarr and one silver to flip any number of different green goods in your supply, one of each type, to blue; tiles already placed on boards cannot be upgraded.

Buy ships for silver at any time or build them through actions. Exploration needs the indicated Vikings and ship type but keeps the ship. Emigration instead pays silver equal to the current round and turns a knarr or longship over onto the Banquet Table, reducing feast demand but ending its use as a ship.

Raiding and hunting actions normally allow up to three rolls, with each reroll replacing the previous result. Raids want high results; hunting and whaling want low results. Appropriate stone, wood or weapon cards modify the result and failures offer the stated consolation. A whaling result reduced to zero must succeed immediately, without another reroll or voluntary failure.

The game ends immediately after the final feast, with no final-round goods bonus. Score ships, emigrations, islands, buildings, livestock, played occupations, silver in supply and final income, then deduct uncovered negative spaces and penalty tiles. Silver already placed on boards scores no extra points; tied players share victory. Final-round income can be recorded directly as points instead of paying out that silver; do not count both.