Burgle Bros.

To set up Burgle Bros., first, set aside 3 safe tiles and 3 stair tiles. Shuffle the remaining room tiles and separate them into three equal stacks. Place one safe tile and one stair tile into each stack, then shuffle each stack to form three 4x4 floor grids. Place 8 walls on each floor according to the diagram provided in the rulebook. Separate the patrol cards by floor number (found in the bottom right corner of each card) and stack them. Discard patrol cards based on the number of players: 3 cards for 3 players, 6 for 2 players, and 9 for 1 player. Place a guard meeple next to each patrol deck. Place a guard die next to each patrol deck, showing '2' for the first floor, '3' for the second, and '4' for the third, indicating the guard's movement. Each player chooses a character, taking their matching meeple, character card (choosing either regular or advanced side), 3 stealth tokens, and a reference card. Reveal the top patrol card for the first floor and place the guard meeple on the indicated room tile. Players then choose a starting room tile on the first floor, flipping it over and placing a downstairs token to mark the entrance (no effects are triggered at this time). Draw another patrol card for each floor and place the patrol die on the indicated room tile to show the patrol route. Finally, create token pools for cracked, hack, alarm, open, stair, thermal bomb, kitty, and crow tokens, and choose a starting player (the player who most recently withdrew money from a bank).

The objective in Burgle Bros. is for the entire crew to successfully pull off a heist. This involves cracking all the safes on each floor, collecting the loot from them, and then escaping to the roof. If all these conditions are met, the players win. However, if any single crew member is caught by a guard and does not have a stealth token to discard, the entire team is apprehended, and all players lose the game.

A player's turn is divided into three distinct phases: Actions, Check for Events, and Move the Guard. During the Actions phase, a player can take up to 4 actions, which can be any combination of: moving to an adjacent tile (triggering tile effects), peeking at an adjacent unrevealed tile, hacking a computer (adding a hack token to a computer tile), adding a die to a safe (costs 2 actions), or rolling dice to crack a safe (requires knowing the combination by revealing all 6 tiles in the safe's row and column). If a player uses 2 or fewer actions, they proceed to the Check for Events phase, where they draw and resolve an event card. The final phase is Move the Guard, where the guard on the current player's floor moves a number of spaces equal to the value on their patrol die, following the patrol route indicated by the patrol cards. If the guard reaches the patrol die's location, a new patrol card is drawn, and the die is moved to the new location. If a patrol deck runs out, all discarded cards for that floor are shuffled to form a new deck, and the guard's movement speed increases by one.

Burgle Bros. is a fully cooperative game, meaning there is no individual scoring. All players on the crew either collectively achieve victory by completing the heist or collectively suffer defeat if any single crew member is caught without a stealth token or if the alarm track reaches its maximum.

The game concludes in one of two ways. The players achieve victory if they successfully crack all safes, collect all the loot, and all remaining crew members escape to the roof. Conversely, the players lose if any crew member is caught by a guard and cannot discard a stealth token to avoid capture, or if the alarm track fills up completely, leading to an immediate game over.