St. Petersburg

Rules Summary

Phases

The game is made up of multiple rounds of 4 phases: workers, buildings, aristocrats, trade You buy cards for the number of roubles shown on the card. If you already have one or more of the cards, they come at a discount - 1 rouble less for each card of the same type (but they always cost at least 1 rouble). On the second round onwards, cards that were not used in the last round are moved to the lower row - those cards cost 1 rouble less.

Worker Phase (Green Cards)

In this phase you buy worker cards. At the end of the round, you are paid 3 roubles for every worker you have.

Trading Cards

Displacing trading cards:

• Blue trading cards can displace any already placed building.
• Red trading cards can displace any already placed aristocrat.
• Each green trading card must replace a specific type of worker (players can recognize pairs of green trading cards and their predecessor by matching symbols in the upper right of the cards):
  • Carpenter Workshop - Lumberjack
  • Gold Smelter - Gold Miner
  • Weaving Mill - Shepherd
  • Fur Shop - Fur Trapper
  • Wharf - Ship Builder
• A trading card _cannot_ displace another trading card.

Paying for trading cards:

• If trading card is more expensive than the card it displaces, the cost is the difference between the two.
• If trading card is the same cost or cheaper than the card it displaces, the cost is 1 ruble.
• All other normal cost reductions from other cards _do_ also apply to trading cards.