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SandCastles

Ruleset - Version 6.04

Gameplay : It’s holidays ! The beach is crowded and the tourist office decided to organize a competition of sand castle construction. You rush to register as any respectable child. The winner is the one who will have accumulated the most points in constructing the most beautiful castle.

Material: 1 Game board

4 Individual boards

4 Counting cards and turn order.

85 Castle tiles

56 Wave tiles

10 White sand tiles

16 Water tiles

24 Equipment cards

30 Fishs (3 white, 3 yellow, 3 orange, 2 red, 2 blue, 2 green, 15 grey)

24 excavation tiles + 18 seashells (3 white, 3 yellow, 3 green, 3 orange, 3 purple, 3 black)

16 Round cards 14 Objective cards

4 Player pawns 4 Wall pawns

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1 token round

1)

Game Board Installation :

Objective cards : Mix the objective cards, draw 3 and place them on the space “Goal”

Player pawns : Each player place 1 player pawn on the “Castles” location and 1 Wall pawn on the beginning of the protection wall

(See page 4)

Place the token « Round » on case 1

Round cards : Draw 8 Round cards Mix them and place them face down on the space “Round cards”. (The 1st card is printed on the game board)

Fishing area : Mix the 30 fishes face down and place 3, 4 or 5 in each fishing area depending upon the number of players (See page 9)

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White sand tiles : Place the tiles on the “White Sand” space.

B – Castle tiles : 2 players : Place 9 tiles (3 / line) 3 players : Place 12 tiles (4 / line) 4 players : Place 15 tiles (5 / line)

The remaining tiles must be place facedown and form the draw pile.

C – Equipment cards : Place the cards here.

E – exploration tiles : Sort the tiles according to the level of the excavation (1 to 3 depending on the depth). Place the tiles level 3 first, then the level 2 above and finally the level 1 above the level 2.

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2)

Player Board Installation :

Distribute to each player : -

1 individual board

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1 counting card

Individual board (resume all possible actions a player can take during each of his turns)

3)

How to play :

There are 9 rounds. The Round card indicates the time available to the players to perform actions. Each player can use the minutes specified (between 8 and 12 minutes) to build his sand castle or protect it from the sea waves. At the end of the 9 rounds, the player with the more points wins.

4)

Round actions :

A) 1st player At the beginning of the 1st round, use the players pawns to randomly design the player who starts. The player to his left is 2nd player, etc. Then you have to put Wall cube’s player in the order of the turn at the beginning of the protection wall.

Distribute the « Turn order » cards to each player according to the player order on the protection wall. For the second round, it is the order of the cubes on the wall of protection that decided the 1st player. The player the more advanced on the protection wall is 1st player, the second more advanced is 2nd player, etc. The players who do not have moved on the wall remain in the order of departure.

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B) Round cards The 1st round card is printed on the playing board. Starting second round, take the top card of the draw pile “Round” and install it on the previous. The round card indicates 3 things :

1. The effect that needs to be applied to all players this round. Read the description and apply it. Some actions can be impacted during the whole round. 2. The number of minutes available for the round. Each player enters this number on his timer. 3. Sea wave strength (variant - see page 14) Give the strength of the wave : add as many wave tiles as there are waves icons (starting round 3).

C) Player actions The player will use the minutes made available to them, each in turn, starting with the first player. During his turn, a player can perform two actions : -

Move (1 minute per move between two neighboring places)

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Activate a location (x minutes depending on the location and on the number of occurences)

The 1st player made two actions and count the minutes used on its timer. All players do then similarly in turn order until all players have exhausted their capital time.

D) Round end

1 – Castle tiles The Castle tiles needs to be replaced for the next round.

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1) Discard the tiles not constructed of the bottom line and put in a zone of discard pile near the board. 2) Shift the remaining tiles of the line (+1) on the bottom line. 3) Shift the remaining tiles of the line (+3) on the line (+1), or even on the bottom line if the location is empty.

Discard 4) Then place new castle tiles on all empty locations.

2 – Big waves : rounds 3-6-9 At the end of rounds 3, 6 and 9, there are large waves that are crashing on the beach. At that precise moment, each player looks at where it is located on the wall of protection of the area “Castles”. Round 3 : the 1st wave has a strength of 6 Each player having a score under 6 must place 1 Wave tile per difference between his score and 6. Round 6 : the 1st wave has a strength of 8 Each player having a score under 8 must place 1 Wave tile per difference between his score and 8. Round 9 : the 1st wave has a strength of 10 Each player having a score under 10 must place 1 Wave tile per difference between his score and 10.

Example : a player is on case 5 at the end of the

6th round ; therefore he must place 3 Wave tiles on his individual board. The first time you have to place a Wave tile, you must place it on one of the 4 cases marked with a wave picture. The wave tiles you’ll place during the game must be placed on the adjacent case to an existing wave tile. You can’t build your sand castle on places covered by a Wave tile. If a wave tile would cover a place that already has a castle tile, the castle tile is removed from the game.

At the end of the round 3 and 6, each player restart to the beginning of protection wall (but they keep turn order established during the round) because the wall of protection has been destroyed by the waves.

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5)

Actions :

A) Move Players using this action will move their meeple from one location to another. It takes 1 minute to move from one location to the next. The 5 locations on which the meeple can go are : –

Sand castles

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Sea

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Parents

1 Min

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Beach

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White sand

B) Activate a location To active a location, a player must have his pawn on this location.

1 - « Parents » : For this activation you have to make a big caprice to your parents for they go buy an equipment to you. The more your talk, bigger is the equipment.

Bucket : 4 minutes Plastic shovel : 4 minutes Landing Net : 4 minutes Wooden shovel : 8 minutes Fishing rod : 8 minutes

The more time passes, the more your parents will yield easily to your whims to have peace. The equipment costs are less and less expensive to the wire of the party. (see the scale of the round : the haircut in minute is indicated in front of each round) A bucket can’t contain more than : 2 water cubes, 1 white sand tile, and 2 objects (fish or sea shell).

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1 Min

2 - « Sea » : Two different actions are possible on this location :

2-1 – Fishing : For this activation you have to go fishing in order to retrieve fish to embellish your castle.

Prerequisite : having a landing net or a fishing rod. Fish 1 fish = 1 minute. The fish are refugees in puddles of water following a falling tide. There are 6 pools each containing 3 to 5 fishes. During each activation of the location, the player chooses one of the puddles. He can change of puddle after each activation. All the fish are painted gray (except the bottom). Therefore you don’t know what color of fish you will go fishing. Only the “fishing rod” allows you to check the concidence of the draw pile.

Fishing with the landing net : Choose a pond and randomly pick a face-down fish.

Fishing with the rod : Choose a pond, and pick two face-down fishes. You can look at them face-up without showing them to the other players. Keep one and put the other one face-down in the pond. If a player catch a grey fish, it means that he was not successful ; he must put the grey fish back in the pond.

REMINDER : to -

A bucket can contain 2 fish maximum. Adding a fish to your castle can be done anytime you’re back to the Sand Castle location (No need spend additional time). All elements of fishing not positioned on the castle will not be counted. The fish must be stored in the area of your castle to be recognized during the counts : - river tiles (1 fish per tile) - pond tiles (up to 3 fish per tile)

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Number of fish to use : Type

VP 4 players 3 players 2 players

White Fish

2

3

3

2

Yellow Fish

2

3

2

2

Orange Fish

4

3

2

2

Red Fish

4

2

2

1

Blue Fish

6

2

2

1

Green Fish

6

2

1

1

Grey Fish = nothing 0

15

12

9

TOTAL

30

24

20

Different fishes and their respective value in VP :

2-2 – Fill your bucket with water For this activation you have to go up to the sea to fill your bucket.

Prerequisite : a bucket Fill your bucket : 1 minute = 2 water tiles Maximum 2 water tiles by bucket.

Water is required to build a tile castle. Discard a water tile (from your bucket) when your build a tile of castle.

3 - « Sand Castles » : There are two possible actions at this location

3-1 – Build one or more tiles castle :

Prerequisite : having 1 water tile in your bucket. The 1st castle tile can be placed anywhere on an empty place of the individual board. Then, the construction of a tile can be done only on a tile adjacent to the construction already present.

Warning, a tile river or pond must be related to the sea (possibly via other tiles river or pond).

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Choose an available castle tile : - Spend the indicated number of minutes - Discard a water tile from your bucket - Retrieve the chosen castle tile - Place it on your individual board

You may have to pay an extra cost of 1 to 3 minutes if you build a tile in the middle line or the top (round white +3 or +1). The cost of the construction of the castle is shown directly on the tiles.

- River / Wall (1 VP) : 1 minute - Pond / Gardens (2 VP) : 2 minutes - Tower (4 VP) : 4 minutes

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During the construction, you can if you want to build above a box already built by destroying the tile concerned. This does not require expenditure of additional time. Tiles capacity : o « Rivers » : can accomodate 1 fish ; must match and be linked to the sea or another river/pond. o « Pond » : can accomodate up to 3 fishes ; must be linked to the sea or another river/pond. o « Gardens » : can accomodate up to 2 seashells. o « Walls » : allow you to move on the protection wall and must be next to one another. o « Towers » : give quite a bunch of victory points.

Wall or Towers tiles cannot accomodate fishes or seashells. Wave, River and Pond tiles are used to connect the tiles adjacent to the sea. River and Wall tiles must match.

Wall tiles allow you to move free to the next case on the protection wall only if the next case is empty. If a player built several walls during his turn, he advanced as many boxes on the wall of protection.

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3-2 – Build the protection wall : For this activation, you participate in the construction of a wall of the area castles which will avoid that big waves come from damaging the castles in construction. The wall of protection consists of 10 boxes.

Spend the needed time to move forward on the wall of protection. Cost : 1 minute to move forward on a free box

A box can accomodate only a single cube wall.

There will be only a single player to be able to reach the box 10 (One cube per box). Reminder : the position of the each player’s wall pawn on the protection wall is used to determine the order of the round. The construction of Wall tiles to your sand castle allows you to move forward on the protection wall (1 case per built tile).

4 - « Beach » : For this activation, you have to search the beach for elements of improvement for your castle. These can be seashells (additional victory points) or trophies. Excavation tiles are hidden and do not allow the player to know what he will find. The only information available is : the seashells the most precious are those located below (Level 3).

Discard the tile from the game and retrieve a seashell cube of the appropriate color to your bucket When you find a trophy, you can add it directly to your individual board. Excavate/Search

Prerequisite : excavation equipment (except level 1) A plastic shovel to search level 2

A wooden shovel to search level 3

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Cost : Searching level 1 cost 1 minute (require no equipment) Searching level 2 cost 2 minutes (need a plastic or wooden shovel) Searching level 3 cost 3 minutes (need a wooden shovel) Additional details : -

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Seashells must be placed on Garden castle tiles already built. You just need to get back to the Sand Castles location No expenditure of additional time Garden tile can accomodate 2 seashells. All elements of search non-positioned on a Castle will not be counted at the end of game. To transport the seashell from the beach to your sand castle, you need a bucket. A bucket can contain up to 2 seashells. Trophies are stored next to the Castle on your individual board.

Different kinds of seashells and the associated victory points :

White and Yellow seashells can be found in level 1. Green and Orange seashells can be found in level 2. Black and Purple seashells can be found in level 3.

5 - « White sand » : For this activation, you have to retrieving white sand (better quality).

Look for white sand :

1 tile / 1 minute

Prerequisite : a bucket

1 tile maximum / bucket

White sand is more beautiful than regular sand and will improve the look of your castle. At the end of the game, you will double the victory points from any Castle tile built on white sand.

Caution : You do not need to spend time to place a white sand tile on your individual board, but you can only do so while adding a new castle tile. Place your white sand tile below the new castle tile.

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Objectives :

At the beginning of the game, the contest judges of the sand castle competition will set objectives to the players. Players that reach these objectives will get additional victory points. During the installation of the board, you need to draw 3 objective cards. These cards are common to all players. Cards with an identical letter cannot be used in the same game. There are two types of objectives : 1)

Race objectives (icon with car and the the flag of race). The 1st player to reach this objective won the card and the associated victory points.

2)

Majority objectives (pie chart icon) Player having reached the majority of the objectives won the card (and the VP shown).

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And of the game :

At the end of round 9, a first count is performed. The players calculate their score in the following manner : -

1 VP per Wall castle tile

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1 VP per River castle tile

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2 VP per Garden and Pond castle tile

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4 VP per Tower castle tile

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Fishes and Seashells : add the relevant VP defined on each tile placed on the sand castle

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Objectives VP

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Trophies VP

The player who obtained the greatest number of Pv has won the contest of Sand Castles.

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Variant : Waves

Instead of having the waves with a predetermined strength (round 3 with strength 6, round 6 with strength 8 and round 9 with strength 10), you can use the wave symbols painted on the round cards to define the strength of the big waves each round. As well, you will not be able to predict the exact strength of the wave for the next round and you’ll have to adapt depending on the next round card. Each card have 1 to 3 wave symbols, therefore the wave strength will be between 3 and 9.

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