Wyrmspan

Setup: gain six coins, one egg and three resources of your choice. Draw three dragons and three cave cards, keeping any four cards in total. Each of your three caves begins with its leftmost space excavated.

Four rounds: take clockwise turns choosing excavate, entice or explore one cave. Pay all costs before resolving the action. You may pass; once you pass you take no more turns that round but can still receive benefits from others. The round ends when everyone has passed.

Excavate: pay one coin and play a cave card into the leftmost empty space in a cave. Column three also costs one egg and column four two eggs. Resolve the cave card and any covered mat benefit; the optional fourth-column exchange is once per space.

Entice: pay one coin plus the dragon’s printed cost. Play it into the leftmost excavated space of a preferred cave, then resolve its when-played ability. You cannot cover another dragon unless an ability explicitly permits it.

Explore: each cave costs one coin for its first exploration that round, one coin plus one egg for its second, and one coin plus two eggs for its third; three is the maximum. Move left to right, resolving mat benefits and eligible dragons until the first space without a dragon, even if excavated.

Abilities and storage: respect each ability’s timing. Each nest holds one egg; cached resources and tucked cards cannot normally be spent. At your turn end, keep at most nine coins, nine resource tokens and nine combined hand cards. Coins and eggs are not resources. Refill the display only at turn end.

Guild and round end: guild advances immediately grant track benefits; reaching a brown space lets you place a marker on the guild tile, at most four per player. At round end activate once-per-round dragons, then rank the objective: tied players receive the same full tier and the next player takes the next tier; zero scores nothing. Before another round refresh the display, gain six coins and one egg, and pass the start marker clockwise.

Final score: add guild end-game benefits, visible dragons’ printed points and end-game abilities, public objectives, and normally one point each per egg, cached resource, tucked card and remaining coin. Every four other remaining items—resources and both card types combined—earn one point, rounded down. Most points wins; tied players compare visible dragons, then share victory.