How To Play Collectionomics
GOAL
You win by getting points. You get points in two ways; 1 by getting items voted onto your own Tag Cards, and 2, by matching the symbols on your goal cards to the symbols on any Tag cards in play. You do this by convincing everyone else that you’re right. Because you are.
SET UP
Roll out The Play Mat
Put the items (from one or more collections) above the Play Mat. This is The Collection.
Each player chooses a player token and places it next to them.
Shuffle the Tag Cards, Tag Goal cards, and Discard Goal cards.
Put the deck of Tag Cards face down on the Tag Deck space on the play mat.
Each player then draws one Discard Goal and one Secret Goal.
Everyone draws 7 Tag Cards, then discards 2 to the bottom of the Tag Card deck.
Each player gets a set of Voting cards from one to however many players are participating.
Remove any unused game components.
Give The Curator Token to the player at the top right of the collection. They are the first Curator.
Hand the timer to the person to the Curator’s right. They are the Presenter.
A Round
A round consists of 3 phases; Presentation, Sharenanigans, and Resetting.
Presentation
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The Curator chooses items from the Collection that will be discussed this round.
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Everyone chooses a tag card from their hand that they wish to assign to one of items and puts it in the center face down.
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The Curator shuffles the chosen Tag Cards and places them face up.
Sharenanigans
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The Presenter (person with the timer) picks one of the items from the display cubicle and puts it in the presentation rings. They give a short description of the item.
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The timer is flipped and discussion begins. When the timer runs out you can either go for one more minute, or end there.
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After the time runs out, everyone votes which card they like. The card with the most points gets the item placed on it. If there is a tie, the item goes away. Note: more than one item can go on a Tag Card.
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Pass the timer to the right. That person is the new Presenter. Repeat the Sharenanigans phase until there aren’t any more items.
Resetting
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After all items have been voted on, return the assigned Tag Cards (the ones with items on them) to their owners. Keep the items on the cards!
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Cards that have no items go into the Discard face up.
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Everyone draws back up to 5 Tag cards.
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Pass the Curator Token and the Timer to the right.
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Start a new round.
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Continue until everyone has been curator once!
Scoring
Players choose a scoring token and count out points based on their goals and items on their tags. Player with the most points wins!