Welcome To Your Perfect Home

Prepare the table

This guide follows the Collector Edition's Classic-sheet standard game. Give each of two to six people a Classic sheet, marker and aid. Shuffle sixty-three Construction cards into three equal stacks, number sides up. Display one randomly selected Standard plan each from A, B and C, project sides up. Keep the printed scoring tracks visible; do not mix Classic and expansion sheets.

Play a turn

Each round flip the top card of each stack beside it, action side up. Each stack's new top number pairs with its adjacent action. Everyone simultaneously chooses one of the three pairs; choices are not exclusive. Write its number in an empty house, maintaining strictly increasing numbers left to right within each street. Gaps are allowed. If at least one number can be placed, you must place one. Otherwise cross the next refusal and take no action. Using the associated action is optional.

A fence draws one boundary between houses anywhere. Street ends already have fences. A complete estate contains only numbered houses between two fences; sizes one to six score. Improvement crosses the next value for one chosen estate size, raising every estate of that size's final value. A park crosses the next park box in the same street as the new number. A pool works only when that number was written in a house with a printed pool: circle it and advance the pool track.

A temporary worker changes the paired number by zero, one or two in either direction, never below zero; cross a worker box even if choosing zero change. You need not use this optional action to avoid refusal. An extension, after the normal number, copies any existing house number into an immediately neighboring empty house, adding B and advancing the penalty track. Repeated B copies are allowed, even across fences.

Finally you may claim any fulfilled plans. A Standard plan requires its depicted combination of complete estate sizes. Mark the used estates; they cannot be subdivided or reused for another plan, but still score at the end. Everyone first claiming a plan in the same round gets its higher value; flip it afterward so later claimants receive the lower value. Each person claims each plan once. When construction stacks run out, shuffle the three discards separately to rebuild them number side up.

Finish and score

Finish the round in which someone claims all three plans, marks their third refusal or fills every house. Add claimed plan points, each street's lowest uncrossed park value, the lowest uncrossed pool value, and complete estates multiplied by their current size values. Rank positive temporary-worker counts for seven, four and one points; ties share a rank and the next distinct count takes the next rank. Zero workers earns zero. Subtract the lowest uncrossed extension and refusal penalties. Most points wins; ties favor more complete estates, then share victory.

Host the first game

The Reddit group-size discussion recommends Welcome To for adding players without adding turn downtime. Keep the three combinations visible to everyone and wait until all have finished a round before flipping again. This box supplies six sheets; larger groups need legitimate extra Classic sheets and the same shared view.

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