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Need Help? Setup How to Play Winning the Game Components This Rulebook is a living document. Download the latest version from roxley.com/santorini-rulebook Copyright 2016 Roxley Games. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Need Help? How To Play Winning the Game If one of your Workers moves Video Tutorials More of a visual learner? We’ve got Players take turns, starting with the Start Player, who first 1 you covered! Head over to roxley.com/santorini-video placed their Workers. On your turn, select one of your up on top of level 3 during for video tutorials on how to play, as well as complete Workers. You must move and then build with the selected your turn, you instantly visual demonstrations of all God Powers! Worker. win! You must always perform a Can’t decide which God Powers to Move your selected 2 Santorini App move then build on your match up? Head over to Google Play Store or the Apple Worker into one of the (up turn. If you are unable App Store and download the Santorini App absolutely to) eight neighboring to, you lose. free. Complete with video tutorials, match randomizer spaces . and much more! A Worker may move up a maximum of one level higher, move down any number of levels You are now ready to play the base 2-player game! We lower, or move along the same strongly suggest you play several games using only these Setup level. A Worker may not move up rules. Read on when you are ready for more! more than one level . Place the smaller side of the Cliff Pedestal A on 1 the Ocean Board B , using the long and short Components tabs on the Cliff Pedestal to guide assembly. Place the Island Board C on top of the Cliff 2 Pedestal A , again using the long and short tabs to guide assembly. The youngest player is the Start Player, who The space your Worker moves into must be unoccupied 3 begins by placing 2 Workers D of their chosen (not containing a Worker or Dome). color into any unoccupied spaces on the board. The other player(s) then places their Workers E . B uild a block ( ) or dome ( ) on an unoccupied space neighboring the moved Worker. D E C A Dome Level 3 You can build onto a level of any height, but you Level 2 must choose the correct shape of block or dome Blocks for the level being built B Level 1 (See diagram to the left). Ground A tower with 3 blocks and a dome is considered a A Complete Tower “Complete Tower”. 1 For the first few games you use God Powers, we Setup God Powers Using God Powers strongly suggest using the Simple God Powers below, indicated by the hibiscus flower . 6. H ephaestus God of Blacksmiths Once you’ve played a few 2-player games using Normal Rules and conditions still apply Your Build: Your Worker may only the rules on the front page of the rule book, to you when using a God Power, with the build one additional block (not we suggest you try God Powers. Apollo exception of the specific changes described by 1 dome) on top of your first block. God Powers are cards that provide you with a the God Power. God Of Music powerful ability A that can be used throughout the game. Many God Powers change the way You must obey all God Power text that Your Move: Your Worker may says you “cannot” or “must”, otherwise you lose move into an opponent Worker’s Workers move and build. H ermes the game. space by forcing their Worker to 7 God Power Setup the space yours just vacated. God of Travel After setting up the Island using only step 1 and Domes are not blocks. If the God Your Turn: If your Workers do 2 from “Setup” section on page 1, perform the Power description states it affects blocks, it not move up or down, they may does not affect domes. following steps: 2. Artemis each move any number of times TheChallenger (determined by who is “Forced” is not “moved”. Some God (even zero), and then either builds. 3 the most “god-like”) chooses God Powers may cause Workers to be “forced” into Goddess of the Hunt Powers equal to the number of players. another space. A Worker that is forced, is not Your Move: Your Worker may considered to have moved. move one additional time, but not Minotaur 4 If playing a 3-player ( ) or 4-player back to its initial space. 8. ( ) game, ensure all chosen God Remember: to win the game by moving onto Powers are compatible with the number the third level, your Worker must move up Bull-headed Monster of players B . All God Powers are during your turn. Therefore, if your Worker Your Move: Your Worker may playable in 2-Player games. is Forced onto the third level, you do not win 3. Athena move into an opponent Worker’s the game. Moving from one third level space to space, if their Worker can be TheChallenger reads each selected God 5 another also does not trigger a win. Goddess of Wisdom forced one space straight backwards to an Power aloud from the rule book. Refer to Opponent’s Turn: If one of your unoccupied space at any level. the set icon and index number C to God Powers apply or are triggered at a Workers moved up on your last find each God Power description. specific time, according to what is stated at the start in the God Power’s description. turn, opponent Workers cannot 6 In clockwise order, everyone chooses a move up this turn. God Power and places it in their area. For example, Apollo’s God Power description 9. Pan TheChallenger receives the last God starts with “Your Move”. This means if you Power. possess Apollo’s God Power, it can only be used God of the Wild by you during the “move” phase of your turn. 4. A tlas Win Condition: You also win if TheChallenger chooses a Start Player, 7 When using a God Power, all text in its your Worker moves down two or who places 2 Workers of their chosen Titan Shouldering the Heavens description is written from the perspective of more levels. color on any unoccupied spaces on the the player possessing the God Power. Any time Your Build: Your Worker may board. In clockwise order, the other an “opponent” is mentioned in a God Power build a dome at any level. players each place all their Workers. description, it is referring an opponent of the player possessing the God Power. 10. Prometheus B D Additional Setup must be performed Demeter Titan Benefactor of Mankind when using some God Powers. If your selected 5. Your Turn: If your Worker does God Power features “Setup” text in the Goddess of the Harvest description, execute these special instructions not move up, it may build both Your Build: Your Worker may during the game Setup. If the order players before and after moving. build one additional time, but not perform additional setup gives either player an on the same space. advantage, execute them in turn order. Additional Win Conditions are specified by some God Powers. In addition to being able to win by moving up onto the third level during your turn, you can also win by fulfilling the “Win Condition” described. Many God Powers feature a icon D to indicate it can be used in Golden Fleece variant (Golden Fleece Expansion sold separately). For more information, see the Golden Fleece section of the rule book. C A 2 Video Tutorials Available - Learn these Gods at roxley.com/santorini-video 11. Aphrodite 15. C haron 20. H era 25. M o rpheus Goddess of Love Ferryman to the Underworld Goddess of Marriage God of Dreams Any Move: If an opponent Worker Your Move: Before your Opponent’s Turn: An opponent Start of Your Turn: Place a block starts its turn neighboring one of Worker moves, you may force a cannot win by moving into a or dome on your God Power card. your Workers, its last move must neighboring opponent Worker perimeter space. Your Build: Your Worker cannot build as normal. be to a space neighboring one of your Workers. to the space directly on the other side of your Instead, your Worker may build any number of Worker, if that space is unoccupied. times (even zero) using blocks / domes collected on your God Power card. At any time, any player 21. Hestia 12. A res may exchange a block / dome on the God Power 16. C hr onus Goddess of Hearth and Home card for dome or a block of a different shape. God of War God of Time Your Build: Your Worker may End of Your Turn: You may build one additional time, but this remove an unoccupied block Win Condition: You also win cannot be on a perimeter space. Persephone (not dome) neighboring your when there are at least five 26 unmoved Worker. You also remove any Tokens Complete Towers on the board. Goddess of Spring Growth on the block. Opponent’s Turn: If possible, at 22. H ypnus least one Worker must move up C irce this turn. 17. God of Sleep . Bia 13 Divine Enchantress Start of Opponent’s Turn: If one G oddess of Violence Start of Your Turn: If an of your opponent’s Workers is . Poseidon Setup: Place your Workers first. opponent’s Workers do not higher than all of their others, it 27 cannot move.
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