For 2-4 Players, Ages 10 Years and Up
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also offers an animated timer
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Game Concept and Objective
You are royals, and you have just one thing in mind: Placing statues of yourselves everywhere across your country to delight
commodities, which you must rob from your subjects in the form of taxes. If too few commodities are leftover for the people
after tax collection, a tumult ensues, and the people punish the greediest royal.
taxes. If you do, the people are well-disposed toward you, and you are not punished for your greed. Bu
you to erect more statues than your opponents?
The player who has placed the most statues at the end of the game wins.
• 100 Statues (25 of each of 4 colors)
• 39 Commodity tiles (depicting 1–3 bread, marble, or tool symbols)
• 37 Supporter tokens (25 of value 1, 8 of value 5, and 4 of value 10)
• 4 Castle boards (1 of each of the 4 colors)
• 4 Nobility cards (Rank 1–4; one side masculine, the other feminine)
• 1 Tumult spinner (card, rotating arrow, and anchor piece)
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25 statues castle board and a
places his or her statues on the die-cut tracks of his or her castle board.
mercy card and places it to the left of his or her
castle board, with the side showing “The people show no mercy” facing up.
supporters of
different denominations: 30 in a 2-player game, 20 in a
3-player game, 15 in a 4-player game. and Place your
supporters to the right of your castle board, separate from
each other and visible to all players.
• Only in a 4-player game are all commodity
tiles used. In a 3-player game, remove the
9 black-framed commodity tiles from play; in
a 2-player game, in addition to the 9 black-
framed tiles also remove the 9 gray-framed tiles.
Put the removed tiles back into the box.
• Place the remaining commodity tiles face down — and preferably without
overlapping each other — in the center of the table; they are the “people’s
• Place the remaining supporters to the right of the people’s commodities. This is
the supply of supporters who have not yet declared their allegiance to a royal.
