Gamehelppennypress

Game play

• On your turn, do one of four things:

Assign reporters

1. Select the arrow next to a story.
2. Select how many meeples (reporters) to move from your player mat onto that story.

Reassign a reporter

1. Select a meeple on the board.
2. Select another story.

Recall reporters

• Select any number of meeples on the board to return to your player mat.

Go to press

• You must pick up the stories where you have the majority of meeples (shared majority counts) and lay out a newspaper page with them.
• Make sure you can fit in the available free spaces, and around the advertisement.
• All top stories (highest News Beat Value) have to be placed first.
• As many top stories as possible have to touch the top of the page.

Game end

• Triggered when a player publishes their third (4-5 players) or fourth (3 players) newspaper.
• Each other player has one last turn, but they can only move one meeple on that turn.
• Then each other player gets a mandatory publishing turn.

Scoring

• For each paper you publish, you score:
  • The News Beat Value for every story on your page.
    • See the arrow on the board!
  • The negative values on your page that are visible.
  • Double News Beat Value for one non-top story that touches the top of the page (your exclusive).
  • You lose News Beat Value in points for every story that doesn't fit.
  • You never score less than zero for a front page.
• Other ways to score points:
  • If someone publishes a story that you have meeples on, you score the lower value of that News Beat (scoop points).
  • At the end of the game, whoever has the most stars of one News Beat gets the bonus points (see the track on top of the board) for that News Beat.
• All ties are awarded the full amount.

Tiebreaker

• In the event of a tie for overall score, the player with the most stories wins.