Your turn
Take any three dice from the yard or all dice from the abandoned district. Roll them all. Use at least one die before rerolling any nonempty selection of the remaining dice. Or end your turn and return unused dice to the yard.
Three actions
Build: start with a ground floor or extend an unfinished building in the same colour. Abandon: move chosen dice to the district. Demolish: spend one die to remove one of your buildings, even a completed one.
Building heights
Purple: 1 or 2 floors; an upper floor completes it. Blue: 2–4 floors including a penthouse. Orange: 3–6 floors including a penthouse. Completed buildings cannot grow further.
End and scoring
Finish round nine, or the round in which a six-floor building is completed. All Nine Rounds always lasts nine rounds. Only completed buildings score; a lone purple ground floor scores 1, other unfinished buildings score 0. Ties go to more completed buildings.
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 floors → 1 / 4 / 9 / 16 / 25 / 36 points
Aim
Build the highest-scoring skyline. Completed buildings score the square of their height. The player with most points wins; ties go to the player with more completed buildings. Equal scores and building counts remain tied.
Setup
For 2–4 players. Choose a start player and play clockwise. The start player receives a high-rise ground floor, the second player a mid-rise ground floor, the third a low-rise ground floor. The fourth player receives nothing. Put one die of each type in the abandoned district. Begin round 1.
Your turn
- Take dice. Choose any three dice from the construction yard, or take every die in the abandoned district. If you take the district, immediately refill it with one die of each type.
- Roll. Roll all the dice you took.
- Resolve at least one die. Build with it, abandon it or use it to demolish a building. You may resolve more dice before continuing.
- Continue or stop. Reroll any nonempty selection of your remaining dice, then resolve at least one die again. Or end your turn and return all remaining dice to the construction yard. With no dice left, end your turn.
Three actions
Build
Start a new building with a ground floor, or add a matching upper floor or penthouse to an unfinished building. Dice must match the building’s colour and can only be added on top.
Abandon
Move one or more chosen dice to the abandoned district. They become available to later players.
Demolish
Return one chosen active die and one of your buildings to the construction yard. You may demolish an entire unfinished dice column or a completed building.
Building heights
A low-rise is complete when an upper floor is added. Mid-rises and high-rises require a penthouse. Replace a completed column with a building tile of the same height and return its dice to the yard. Completed buildings cannot be extended. There is no limit to the number of buildings in your skyline.
End of the game
Every round gives each player exactly one turn, always beginning with the same start player. The standard game ends after round nine, or at the end of the round in which a six-floor high-rise is completed, whichever comes first. Finish that entire round. With the invitation option “Play all nine rounds”, a six-floor building does not end the game early.
Final scoring
Replace unfinished low-rise ground floors with height-one tiles. Discard all other unfinished buildings. Add your completed tiles’ points. One to six floors score 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36 points respectively. More completed buildings break a points tie.
Playing on Yucata
Click a construction-yard row to take a die, or take the entire abandoned district. Phase 1: choose three dice or take the abandoned district. Phase 2: roll all dice first, then select at least one die before choosing Roll, Build, Abandon or Demolish. After rolling, multiple dice start deselected; a single die is selected automatically. Unavailable commands stay visible and greyed out. Build requires that all selected dice can be placed. It automatically places dice with unique or equivalent targets; otherwise choose a tower for the highlighted die. Each selected demolition die requires its own target. Each build and demolition has its own undo step; Roll and Abandon process the selection together. Rolling commits earlier decisions and cannot be undone. Other choices use the framework’s usual undo controls. End your turn with the standard finish-turn button. The star marks the game’s start player. The displayed score includes low-rise ground floors. As in the original online implementation, dice and building tiles are not limited by the physical component supply. Fast-track dice, events and landmarks are not part of these offered variants.