Carnegie

Setup: adjust the department supply, Action Choice tiles and neutral blocking disks to player count. Four random timeline tiles form twenty rounds. Each player receives a company, four project tabs, $12 and four goods; arrange employees, initial housing and a reserved department, then perform initial movement and activation.

Round order: select a timeline, resolve events, use departments, activate employees and advance the marker. The current first player chooses Human Resources, Management, Construction or R&D. Everyone follows that type clockwise from that player, then the first-player marker passes onward.

Income events: optionally return one or more employees from the indicated mission area to your lobby inactive. Each returns the transport income at your current position in that region. Returning at least one also grants your built-project income across the map once; returning none grants neither income.

Departments: use matching departments in any order, normally once per active employee. Finish one department before starting another and do not return to it later in the same turn. Working in place leaves an employee active; moving or going on a mission changes that state.

Human Resources and Management: allocate orthogonal employee moves, leaving moved employees inactive; the permanent starting HR employee ensures at least three moves. Management generates money or goods and builds departments. A normal new department costs one good on a free space containing an employee, otherwise two; duplicate departments are forbidden.

Construction and R&D: normal construction sends the acting employee on a mission to the chosen region, pays the goods cost and moves the rightmost available project disk to a matching vacant site there; small cities accept any project type. Spend study points on project tabs or transport tracks; unspent study points expire at turn end.

Donations and activation: a donation event allows one donation each onto an unoccupied objective. Your first, second and third normally cost $5, $10 and $15. Each donation normally scores at most 12 VP, with project-tab bonuses able to raise that limit. Only after all actions may inactive employees be activated by paying workstation costs. Events in the four rightmost timeline columns allow taking income and/or making a donation, including both.

Timeline ends and special abilities: a completed action row may still be chosen. Cycle downward to the next marker that can advance, turn it over, trigger its event and advance it at round end. Department abilities can modify ordinary costs or mission requirements. A following player in the prescribed three/four-player setup may discard an Action Choice tile once to choose a different action from the first player; it scores 3 VP unused.

Final scoring: after twenty rounds and all four timelines are complete, add immediate VP, active employees, built departments, project tabs, city projects, donations and major-city connections. Each ordinary active employee scores 1 VP; the permanent starting HR employee does not. Score only your best connected major-city network, at most 36 VP. Most VP wins; ties share victory.