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This entry uses the original 2018 set of 81 Construction cards. Give everyone an identical sheet and a pen, select one basic City Plan numbered 1, 2, and 3, and shuffle Construction cards into three stacks of 27, number side up.

Each round, flip one card from each stack beside it, effect side up, pairing that effect with the newly revealed number. Everyone independently chooses one combination; multiple players may choose the same one. Write its number in an empty house, then optionally use its effect.

Numbers increase left to right within each street and normally cannot repeat. Skip numbers or leave gaps to fill later. If none of the choices can be written legally, mark a Building Permit Refusal and take no effect. Refusal spaces are marked in order: 0, 0, then 3.

Surveyor places one fence between houses in any street. A complete estate has 1–6 adjacent, numbered houses, with no empty houses, between two fences. Street ends already have fences. An estate may be subdivided unless already committed to a City Plan.

Real Estate Agent improves one estate-size column by crossing its next value from top to bottom. At the end, each complete estate of that size scores its column’s lowest uncrossed value. You need not already own an estate of that size when improving it.

Landscaper marks a park on the street where the associated number was written. Pool Manufacturer builds a pool only when its paired number is written in an empty house bearing a printed pool. A pool location alone or a pool effect used elsewhere does not build one.

Temp Agency can adjust its associated number by one or two in either direction, allowing 0–17, and records a worker use. At the end, the most, next-most, and third-most uses score 7, 4, and 1 respectively under the original rules; tied players receive the same award.

Bis additionally copies an existing number into an adjacent empty house on either side, in any street. Both must remain in the same estate without an intervening fence, and repeated copies are allowed. Mark its penalty track and deduct the lowest uncrossed value at the end; it does not replace the normal mandatory number entry.

Each City Plan scores once per player. All first completers in the same round receive its high front-side value; flip it to Approved for later, lower rewards. Mark committed estates: they cannot be subdivided or reused for another plan. The first completer may opt to reshuffle Construction cards as specified in the original rules.

End when anyone marks their third refusal, completes all three plans, or fills every house. Add plans, parks, pools, temps, and complete estates, then deduct Bis and refusal penalties. Highest score wins; ties compare total complete estates, then counts of one-house estates, two-house estates, and so on.