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Gamehelpthurnandtaxis
Helpers
Each turn you can choose one character to help you, giving you a bonus or option for that turn:
- Postmaster: Draw an extra card
- Postal Carrier: Add a second card to your route
- Administrator: Clear the six city cards away, replacing them with six new ones
- Cartwright: Acquire the next highest carriage, even if your route is 1 or 2 short, i.e. a 5 city route gets a level 7 carriage.
Overview
Each player builds a postal system. To do so, each player tries to build an effective network of post offices in the cities on the board, acquire valuable carriages, and collect bonus tiles. It also helps to get help from the postal officials.
When a player acquires a value 7 carriage or has placed all his houses, the game is in its final round. When the round ends, the game ends immediately.
The player with the most victory points wins the game!
Game end and scoring
The final round is the one in which a player places all of their houses or gets a 7 carriage. Players have an equal number of turns, so play continues until the end of that round.
Scoring: highest carriage + points on all bonus tiles - unplaced houses
Ties: Whoever got the 'game end' token. If that wasn't a tied player, it is whichever tied player played soonest (clockwie, irl) after them.