Tips saboteur

Strategy Tips

Saboteur is an easy game to play most of the time, but when it comes to tough choices, it can get a bit harder!

• The first very obvious thing to do is to get to the gold, but getting to it is often blocked by the dreaded saboteur!

So, if you and your fellow miners can figure out who the saboteur is, give him a taste of his own medicine! Try breaking as many of his tools as you can, so that he can't attack you!

• If YOU'RE the saboteur, the first thing you want to do is find out which card holds the gold! Sometimes it's obvious because of where the miners are heading.

But they can be tricky sometimes! Once you've found out, start leading them AWAY from the gold by placing paths.

• If the you are a miner, you should try to get to the gold, but since the saboteur is pulling tricks on you, that might be kind of hard!

Try dividing your team into two groups so that the saboteur is confused about which path he should break.

What to do with the others!

You may not be a miner OR a saboteur, so here's what to do if you're not!

Selfish dwarf

• This dwarf (with a red jacket) can only win if he manages to complete the connection to the treasure himself.
• If he succeed, he gets four gold nuggets while the other players get nothing at all.
• If another gold digger completes the connection, the selfish dwarf takes no part in the treasure sharing.
• Sabotage as often as you like to block your fellows and saboteurs, but don't do it too much or...

Geologist

• If you start out as this guy, your win by finding crystals!
• Every path card visible at the end of the round that holds a crystal gets you +1 gold!
• If there are 2 geologists, they split the gold (rounding down).
• To maxmize your gain, dig a long path and lying sometimes to find more crystals. But don't lie too much or you will be mistaken as a sabotaur.

Boss

• The boss wins if either (or both) of the green and blue miners win! But, when the gold is divided, he gets 1 nugget less than the others.
• The boss wins by himself if the gold is reached but the path is blocked for both blue and green miners AND there is no Profiteer. Then he gets 4 nuggets.
• To win as Boss, act as a miner but place both green and blue doors to block the path. Also, try to prevent both green and blue winning.

Profiteer

• The profiteer wins no matter what happens, but gets 2 nuggets less than everyone else. If you pick this up, it could be pretty good for you!
• The profiteer wins nothing if he gets less than 3 gold. So attempt a situation with neither green or blue win, or work with the sabs!

Green/Blue miner

• If you start out as a miner, then you are on a separate team from the rest.
• Also you don't necessarily know who are on your team.
• To win as a miner, place doors with your colour to block the other team from winning. Use maps to locate the gold fast before it is too late.

New Elements

Doors

Doors are paths that you can place. If you place a blue door, then only the blue miners can continue on this specific pathway. However, if you place a green door, then only the green miners can pass through that way.

Ladders

If you're pathway is broken by the saboteur so you cannot get by, simply place a ladder path in the separated pathway. Then, you can continue to create the pathway even if the saboteur has made a gap between the starting card and the pathway, you can still continue to build there.

With good wishes,

  ~Endaz and ArielFriedrichGauss