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Overview

Build up a landscape whilst making sure to have at least one private objective

Turn

You receive two double sided cards, pick one card to keep and choose which side you wish to play it as

The chosen side must be played at any 90 degree orientation i.e. not at an angle

Except for the first turn, the new card should cover at least 1 square of a previous card

The new card CANNOT cover a scoring condition space

Pass the unchosen card to your opponent and place the new card you each received

Finally, draw 2 new cards, and repeat the turn

Terminology

Touching - Orthogonally adjacent

Near - Orthogonally or Diagonally adjacent

Connected - Orthogonally adjacent to other spaces of the same terrain

Border - The very edge of your display

Into - Goes from one edge of a space to an orthogonally adjacent edge, but does not have to appear on both spaces

Past - Is orthogonally adjacent to another feature, but does not meet that feature directly

X Spaces From - Count the distance Orthogonally

Game End

The game ends on the turn in which each player has 8 cards in their display, there will be 1 card left over

As part of setup, a shared objective was played, this is first scored

After which, each player scores private objectives created during the game

Warning: If a player has no Private objectives, they CANNOT score the shared one

Each private objective included in a player's landscape, regardless of whether it scored or not, lose that player 10 points each

The player with the most points is the winner!

If tied, the player with the single highest scoring objective wins!

Summarised by https://boardgamearena.com/player?id=90078516