Aurum (engl.)

Description

After years of experimentation in a shared laboratory, you and your fellow alchemists have successfully transmuted common metals into gold. Now, you must perfect the formula by repeating your experiments to discover the ideal combination that produces the purest gold. Aurum is a trick-taking card game played by three or four players. In a four-player game, two teams of two compete against each other. At the start of each round, players bid on how many tricks they expect to win. When playing in teams, the higher bid of the two partners sets the team’s target. Players lead with any non-gold card, and on their turn must not follow a suit already played during that round unless they play a gold card. The highest card of the led suit wins the trick unless a gold card is played—gold cards are trump and always win. The player who plays the lowest non-gold card in the trick may add a matching gold card of the same value from the supply to their collection if available. All gold cards played in the trick return to the supply. A round ends immediately when a player cannot play a valid base metal card and has no gold card to play or chooses not to play one. Scoring rewards players or teams who meet or exceed their bids: earning points equal to their bid for exceeding it, or double points for an exact match. Additional points are earned for the gold cards collected. The player or team with the highest score wins a gold nugget, and the first to collect two nuggets wins the game.

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