Rio Grande Games 6 manual Welcome to Arkadia, Material, AIM of the Game --------=

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.

MATERIAL

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Building lot for the castle

Architect banners

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:

1residential 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)	4
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

Building cards

Buildings

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3

2

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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 anSeals adult.

Castle piece

Gold coins with the values 1, 5 and 10

Workers

AIM OF THE GAME —-—-—-—-=-—-—-—-—

Seal tiles

Gold

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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