Rio Grande Games Arkadia 6 - Manual

MATERIAL
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1 game board
1 building lot for the castle
(with 10 squares for the castle pieces)
4 screens in the players’ colours
(yellow, orange, green, violet)
16 architect banners (4 in each player’s colour)
40 building cards
40 buildings in 7 different forms:
1 residential house, 2 farm, 3 tavern, 4 mill,
5 smithy, 6 trade centre, 7 monastery
88 seals of the 4 families (8 of them with the value 5)
Red = cloth merchants, olive = spice merchants,
black = carpenters, silver = silversmiths
44 workers (11 in each player’s colour)
24 neutral workers (beige)
28 castle pieces
Stick one of the square seal tiles in each castle piece with the help
of the attached double-sided stickers. This should be done by an
adult.
Gold coins with the values 1, 5 and 10
AIM OF THE GAME
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Players build houses and the central castle in the town of
Arkadia. For constructing houses, they get seals of the four
families. Whenever a house is completed, castle construction
is continued. Subject to the family’s contribution to the castle construction, the value of the family’s seal changes. In the
course of the game, each player can convert his seals into
gold – he may decide when to do this himself. The player
with the most gold wins the game.
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Arkadia
For 2 – 4 players aged 10 – 99 years
Author: Rüdiger Dorn · Illustrations: Michael Menzel, Walter Pepperle
Design: DE Ravensburger, KniffDesign · Photos: Becker Studios
Ravensburger Game ® Nr. 26 433 9
WELCOME TO ARKADIA
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In a remote land there lies a region with undulating hills and fertile valleys. Widely-travelled
settlers have laid the foundation stone for the city of Arkadia. In addition to several other
buildings they want to construct a magnificent castle on a hill. Four wealthy families – the cloth
merchants, the spice merchants, the carpenters and the silversmiths – want to enhance prestige
and augment their influence. For this reason, they compete for the major contribution to the castle’s
construction. Players act as architects. The four families commission them to plan and realise the
build-up of the town and the castle.
Building lot for the castle
Architect banners
Building cards Buildings
Seals
Workers Seal tiles
Castle piece
Gold
1
2
3
4
5
6
7