Caylus

Setup: The original supports 2-5 players, each with six workers. Randomize six neutral buildings and sort supplies. The bailiff and provost start on the last neutral tile. With 3-5 players, random order gives starting money of five, six, six, seven and seven deniers; everyone gets one wood and two food. Every round begins with two deniers plus applicable income, including the first round.

Placement: Take turns placing one worker or passing until all pass. Ordinary buildings normally hold one worker; castle, stables and inn use special spaces. Other buildings and the castle cost one plus the number already passed; your own buildings cost one. The first player to pass immediately gains one denier and cannot place again that phase.

Ownership and restrictions: Workers cannot enter residences, prestige buildings or empty spaces. The fixed gold mine may receive a worker even with empty road spaces before it. Placing in an opponent building immediately gives its owner one prestige, retained even if it never activates. Your own placement grants no such point.

Special buildings: Resolve the gate, trading post, merchants guild, joust field, stables and inn in order. The gate relocates its worker to a legal free space at no extra cost; the trading post supplies money; the guild moves the provost; the joust field trades one denier and one cloth for a favor. Stables change order; the worker remaining on the inn right circle normally makes subsequent placements cost one.

Provost and activation: In passing order, each player once may pay one denier per space to move the provost up to three spaces or pass. It cannot move onto the bridge or special buildings. Activate road buildings from the first after the bridge through the provost; later workers return without compensation. Production is mandatory, other effects optional. An opponent activating a stone production building also grants its owner one of its produced resources.

City construction: A carpenter builds wooden buildings and a mason stone buildings, paying printed goods and using the first empty road space for immediate construction points. A lawyer pays one cloth and one denier to replace a neutral or owned ordinary building with a residence; lawyers cannot themselves be replaced. Architects replace owned residences with prestige buildings. Each construction action builds one building; printed fixed buildings cannot be covered.

Castle: In arrival order, deliver any number of batches, each three different goods including food. Place houses in the current section; dungeon, walls and towers award five, four and three points per batch. You cannot voluntarily skip an unfinished, unscored section. Entering without delivering normally loses two points. Most batches delivered this round earns one favor, with earlier arrival breaking ties.

Favors and section scoring: Choose one favor track, advance one step when allowed and use an effect at or below your position. The same track cannot be used twice in one phase. Only columns one and two start open; three and four open after dungeon scoring finishes, and five after walls scoring finishes. Section contributions award favors; no contribution loses two, three or four points respectively.

Round end, finish and two players: The bailiff advances two spaces if the provost is ahead, otherwise one, then the provost joins it. Reaching a section marker or filling a section triggers round-end scoring, once per section. After towers scoring, add three per remaining gold, one per three ordinary goods and one per four deniers. Most points wins; ties share victory. With two players, both start with five deniers, alternate first player at each round start and omit stables. After one passes, the other pays three for non-owned placements; the inn discount still applies.