Rio Grande Games Arkadia User Manual

MATERIAL

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1 game board
1 building lot for the castle

(with 10 squares for the castle pieces)

4 screens in the players’ colours

(yellow, orange, green, violet)
16 architect banners (4 in each player’s colour)
40 building cards
40 buildings in 7 different forms:

1

residential house,2farm,3tavern,4mill,

5

smithy,6trade centre,7monastery

88 seals of the 4 families (8 of them with the value 5)

Red = cloth merchants, olive = spice merchants,

black = carpenters, silver = silversmiths
44 workers (11 in each player’s colour)
24 neutral workers (beige)
28 castle pieces

Stick one of the square seal tiles in each castle piece with the help

of the attached double-sided stickers. This should be done by an

adult.

Gold coins with the values 1, 5 and 10

AIM OF THE GAME

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Players build houses and the central castle in the town of
Arkadia. For constructing houses, they get seals of the four
families.Whenever a house is completed, castle construction
is continued. Subject to the family’s contribution to the castle

construction, the value of the family’s seal changes. In the
course of the game, each player can convert his seals into
gold – he may decide when to do this himself.The player
with the most gold wins the game.

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Arkadia

For 2 – 4 players aged 10 – 99 years

Author: Rüdiger Dorn · Illustrations: Michael Menzel,Walter Pepperle

Design: DE Ravensburger, KniffDesign · Photos: Becker Studios

Ravensburger Game®Nr. 26 433 9

WELCOME TO ARKADIA

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In a remote land there lies a region with undulating hills and fertile valleys. Widely-travelled

settlers have laid the foundation stone for the city of Arkadia. In addition to several other

buildings they want to construct a magnificent castle on a hill. Four wealthy families – the cloth

merchants, the spice merchants, the carpenters and the silversmiths – want to enhance prestige

and augment their influence. For this reason, they compete for the major contribution to the castle’s

construction. Players act as architects. The four families commission them to plan and realise the

build-up of the town and the castle.

Building lot for the castle

Architect banners

Building cards Buildings

Seals

Workers Seal tiles

Castle piece

Gold

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

PREPARATION

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If you are playing for the first time, punch out
the elements carefully.

Stick one of the 28 square seal tiles in each
castle piece as shown in the illustration.

For the first game we recommend the set-up shown on page
7 of these rules.This will make it easier to learn the game.
Set the game board up as described and then continue
reading here.

Now proceed as follows for the preparation of the game:

• Place the game board in the centre of the table.

• The building lot for the castle is placed in the grid so that
no square with a tent camp (see illustration
on the left) is covered.

• Each player gets a screen (construction
tent) as well as the 4 architect banners and

3 workers of their colour.The four banners are suspended
on the top of the screen facing outwards. Place the 3
workers behind your screen.

• The remaining workers (including the neutral beige ones)
form the general pool that is placed next to the game
board.

• The castle pieces are distributed on the three pool areas
at the border of the game board as follows: Place 12 pie­ces (3 red ones, 3 olive ones, 3 silver ones and 3 black
ones) on the pool areas for the first and second floor of
the castle respectively. Since there are only 8 squares, you
stack up 2 pieces of the same colour on the squares at
the border of the game board. The remaining 4 castle pie­ces are placed on the 4 coloured pool squares for the
third floor. The 4 neutral pool squares for the third floor
remain empty at the moment. They will be used in the
course of the game.

• Sort the buildings by their forms and place them next to
the game board.

• The seals and the gold are placed next to the game
board, too.

• Shuffle the building cards thoroughly. Each player gets 4
cards, face down. Place 3 additional cards face-up next to
the game board. Form a stack with the remaining cards
and place it on the table, face down.

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