Brügge

1. Draw piles
2. Players Cards
3. Starting gate of the blue player
4. Current indices
5. Majority markers of the red player
6. Player display

Above your cards you can see which action needs to be performed next by which player.

To the right, you can see the player displays. They show the gold, points and workers the player currently has (3). By clicking the seal (1), you can switch to the detailed view of the player's persons. It shows you the starting player and the player whose turn it is at the moment. Above the name (2) you can see the threat markers and underneath it (4) are the houses and persons living in them.

Starting the Game

There are 165 cards in 5 different colours that are therefore visible on the reverse side. Two face-down piles are created at the beginning from which the players draw their cards.

Each player gets 5 gold and 5 victory points as starting capital, as well as 1 worker of each of the 5 colours.

Flow of the game

Bruges runs across several rounds, in which every player has 4 turns in each of which they play one of their cards. At the beginning of the round, the 5 dice are rolled. For every showing a 5 or 6, the players get a threat marker of that colour. If a player gets a third marker in a colour, the damage takes effect - losing money, points, buildings, persons, workers. calm, the players can move up a step on the reputation scale. The costs of doing so equal the sum of all 1s and 2s rolled.

In every turn, the players HAVE TO use one of the cards in their hand and CAN use the abilities of the persons they have already played before or after. The game ends at the end of the round, in which one of the two draw piles is emptied. This is then replenished so there are always two piles to draw from.

Once everyone has played their four turns, the majorities in reputation, canal building and person placement are checked. If a player has the sole majority in one of the disciplines, they can turn over their respective brander to the colored side. They keep it turned until the end of the game, regardless of whether they keep the majority.

Playing the Cards

In general, there are 6 different possibilities to use the card. When it's your turn, you select the card to be played. Then you select how it is to be played by reading the action in the bar to its right (1) or clicking the cost (2) in order to place the person in a house.

In addition to its colour and the aforementioned costs for playing it, every card is worth a number of points (0 - 4) at the end of the game, situated below the cost, and belongs to one of 11 groups. This is shown at the bottom of the card.

From top to bottom, the following actions are possible:

• Take workers (two workers of the colour of the card)
• Take gold (according to the die of the card's colour)
• Remove threat (Remove 1 threat of the colour of the card and earn one victory point)
• Build a canal (1 canal token on a canal space of the colour of the card. Only possible if one of the two currently possible canal spaces has the right colour and you can pay the respective cost
• Build a house (a house in the card's colour. Cost: 1 worker of the card's colour

Finally, the upper left allows you:

• Place the person in a house (requires a free house of any colour. The respective cost must be paid.)

Player details

In the detailed player view, you can see the abilities of the persons played. By clicking the ‐function symbol (1), you can use them. If the background is green, the card can be used. If the card has a red background, it can no longer be used in this round.

There are four types of person:

The infinity symbol means that you can use the ability at no extra cost. Once again, click the symbol to do so. Unless activated at a certain point in the game (i.e. whenever you build a house), these can only be used once per round.

The symbol worker means that you have to pay a worker in the colour shown in order to the activate. Click the worker symbol to do so.

A laurel wreath means the card gives you points at the end of the game.

The lightning bolt shows you that the ability is used just once, when the card is played.

By switching between ‐Function and ‐Name/Points, you can show either the cards' ability or their names and the points they count at the end of the game. By using the selection (3), you can limit the view to just action abilities (infinity/worker), all cards or just laurel wreath cards.

Below (4), the numbers of persons of the eleven different person groups are displayed. This is important for many cards.

End of the Game

Once the last round has been played, the game ends. All the points are now added up:

• Points through the reputation track (1-12 points depending on the step)
• Points through canal building/statues (3 points for each no. 3 canal token and up to 7 points per statue for a completed canal section)
• Points through houses (one point per house)
• Points for the persons (0-4 points each, depending on value)
• Points through victory point cards (according to card text on persons with laurel wreath)
• Points for the majority markers (4 points each for reputation, canal and person majorities)

The player with the most victory points wins. If there is a tie, the amount of gold decides. So if this is tied, there are multiple winners.