Teotihuacan: City of Gods

Setup: use the player-count-specific pyramid and calendar setup. Players normally begin with three workers, with a fourth on the Ascension wheel. For standard setup, choose two of four Starting tiles and place workers at three distinct board numbers shown on them; the manual also provides a preset first-game setup.

Turn: move one unlocked worker clockwise by one to three boards and take one action, or spend the entire turn unlocking all your workers for free. During a normal turn you may instead pay three cocoa at any time to unlock them all, sliding them into the general areas of their current boards.

Cocoa and fees: before placing the arriving worker, count different colors already in the destination’s general area, ignoring locked workers. Collecting cocoa gives that count plus one; a Main action first costs that count in cocoa. Your own color counts if already present, but the arriving worker itself does not.

Worship: use an available Worship space and lock the arriving worker. Pay one cocoa to unlock another player’s worker occupying it; you cannot displace your own. A temple sidebar offers its advancement or a Discovery tile at its printed cost, or both for one extra cocoa. At the Palace you must activate the Royal tile and cannot take only the Discovery tile.

Main actions: the Palace has none. Forest, Quarry and Gold Deposits use your unlocked-worker count and lowest power to determine rewards. Alchemy spends gold on a Technology and awards three points to each other player already owning it. Nobles spends two wood on a Building and advances the Avenue; Decorations spends gold, while Construction spends stone and wood for higher levels. Worker-count benefits cap at three.

Construction and power-ups: place up to one Pyramid tile per worker there, with at least one required. Resolve payment, level and matching-icon points, temple advances and Pyramid-track advancement separately for each tile. Complete the board’s required power-ups on unlocked workers afterward. Power-ups are mandatory; where two are due, apply both to one worker or one each to two workers.

Ascension and timing: reaching six immediately advances the Avenue, moves that worker to the Palace at power one, grants a chosen Ascension reward and advances the calendar. One reward recruits the fourth worker at power three and grants two cocoa. The Last Player also advances the calendar after every turn. When the calendar discs meet, finish the current round and then play one full additional round before the eclipse.

Eclipse scoring: multiply Avenue steps by the lowest visible Building-row number. Pyramid-track leaders each gain four points; all players score four/three/two per step at the first/second/third eclipse, then reset only that track. Sets of one to seven different masks score 1/3/6/10/15/21/28 points, and masks remain. Pay one cocoa per worker plus one for each power-four-or-five worker; each unpaid cocoa costs three points, with a zero-point floor.

Ending: end after the third eclipse, or make the pending eclipse final when the pyramid’s top tile is built, retaining the standard remaining turns. Add qualified Temple Bonus tiles for reaching a temple’s penultimate or top step. Most points wins; ties favor more remaining cocoa, then the lower Player Order number.