The Castles of Burgundy

There are five phases, A–E, each with five rounds, for 25 rounds total. At phase start, replace leftover public hex tiles and refill them; goods stay in their depots. Each round, everyone rolls their two dice. The first player also rolls the white die to assign that round’s goods tile to a depot. The white die is not a third action die and cannot be adjusted with workers. Players then take their two-die turns in turn order.

Use each die to take one hex tile from its numbered depot, place a stored tile on an estate space with that die value, sell every good of the corresponding type, or take two workers regardless of the result. Repeat actions or choose their order freely. Each worker adjusts one of your dice by one up or down, wrapping between one and six; multiple workers may be spent.

New tiles must first enter one of your three storage spaces, never your estate directly. If storage is full, discard an older tile first. Placement is a separate action: match the die value on the space and the tile’s color, adjoining a tile already placed. Placed tiles cannot move or be removed. Normally, a connected beige city cannot repeat a building type, although knowledge tiles can provide exceptions.

A placed ship takes goods you can store from any one depot, independently of the die used to place it, and advances your turn-order piece one space, on top of pieces already there. Animals score their printed count plus existing animals of the same type in that pasture, without requiring direct tile adjacency. A castle immediately grants an extra action with any die value; each mine gives one Silverling at phase end. Buildings resolve their one-time benefit when placed.

Goods storage holds at most three types, stacking tiles of the same type. Leave behind goods you cannot store. A sale must include every stored good of the chosen type. Each tile scores points equal to the player count, but the whole sale normally gives only one Silverling, not one per tile. A Warehouse permits the same sale without a die.

Once during your own turn, you may additionally pay two Silverlings for one tile from the central black depot. Buy before, between, or after your die actions, without using a die. The purchased tile still enters storage and later needs a legal placement action or effect; buying does not place it directly into your estate for free.

Completing a connected color region immediately scores 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, or 36 points for sizes one through eight, plus 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 for phases A through E. Separately, filling every space of one color across the entire estate awards the first player 5/6/7 points with 2/3/4 players, and the second 2/3/4. Later players receive no color-completion bonus.

After completing phase five, add one point per unsold goods tile and remaining Silverling, one per two workers, and endgame points from placed knowledge tiles. Stored hex tiles score nothing. Highest total wins; ties favor more empty estate spaces, then the player later in final turn order. This uses the original 2011 German rule, correcting the old English translation’s “fewer empty spaces.”