Rajas of the Ganges

Use the board side and covers for the player count. The basic game uses basic province boards and ten-die Kali boards. Begin with three active workers and three waiting at track and river milestones.

Take and roll one die of each color. Begin at one karma and zero fame. The lowest initial dice total determines the starting player; starting money is three, four, five, or six in turn order.

On your turn, place one worker in a legal empty action space, pay its required money and dice, and immediately resolve it. Fill quarry and harbor spaces from left to right as directed.

Roll new dice immediately and store them on Kali; the basic limit is ten dice. Spent dice return to the common supply rather than serving as workers on the board.

At the quarry, pay the space's money cost and dice of the tile's required color totaling at least its price; overpayment is allowed. Connect at least one road to your residence network, then collect its market money, building fame, and newly connected border rewards.

Market actions activate your province's markets under assorted-goods or single-goods rules. Palace spaces provide dice, exchanges, rerolls, karma, building upgrades, and other benefits. Specific chambers require exact values rather than simply high rolls.

At the harbor, spend a die showing one, two, or three to move one to that many unoccupied river spaces, skipping other boats and gaining only the destination reward. Spend one karma when paying a die to flip it to its opposite face, such as one to six or two to five.

Reaching twenty money, fifteen fame, or passing the bridge can unlock workers. The basic game allows only two additional workers, for five total, usable in the same round. After all workers are used, retrieve them and set the next starter through the Great Mogul action or clockwise rotation.

Meeting or crossing wealth and fame markers triggers the end after the current circuit of worker placements, rather than the entire round. Remaining players before the current starter may place one more worker if available. Among qualifying players, the largest overlap measured in fame points wins; a tie favors the first to cross.