Pacific

PACIFIC - We journey now to the Pacific Ocean. From California to Japan, the peaceful sea is ringed by rumbling mountains. Animals, some of them tourists, fill every conceivable niche, boats dot the waves, and businesses and industries thrive on the coasts. It is this world that you will exploit, or make friends with, or perhaps just pass through. This is a simultaneous play game for 2-5 players, where you can play anyone’s cards. Each turn you pick a card to offer up to everyone, and then do one of the things a player offered up. GAMEPLAY: Each player takes a player mat, a scoring track token, and one choice token in each player color being used this game. Put the central playmat for the cards in the middle of the table. Shuffle the deck and deal each player 10 cards. Put the rest of the tokens on the table where everyone can reach them. TURNS: The game lasts 10 turns. Each turn, each player puts a card from their hand face down at the appropriate space next to the central mat. When everyone is ready, reveal all of the cards. Then each player uses one of their choice tokens to secretly pick which card they are going to execute. When everyone is ready, each player reveals their choice and does the text of the card they picked. Then they "run" the areas of their mat corresponding to the colors on the card they picked. The revealed cards are left out on the table: cover them up with next turn's face down cards.