Century: Spice Road

To set up the game, first shuffle the orange point cards and deal five face-up in a row. Place two gold coins on the leftmost two point cards, plus two additional gold coins for each player. Similarly, place two silver coins on the next two point cards, plus two additional silver coins for each player. Next, shuffle the purple merchant cards and deal six face-up in a row below the point cards. Each player receives two specific starting merchant cards (one 'trade up' card and one 'two turmeric' card) and a caravan card. The player with the caravan card showing a distinct symbol at the bottom is the starting player and receives three yellow turmeric cubes. All other players receive four yellow turmeric cubes.

The primary objective of Century: Spice Road is to accumulate the most victory points by the end of the game. Players earn victory points primarily by claiming point cards, which require specific spice combinations, and by collecting gold and silver coins associated with these cards.

On your turn, you can choose one of four actions: 1) Play a card from your hand face-up in front of your caravan to gain or convert spices as indicated on the card. 2) Rest, which means picking up all merchant cards previously played in front of your caravan and returning them to your hand. 3) Acquire a merchant card from the row by paying one spice cube for each card you skip to reach your desired card. The first card in the row costs nothing. 4) Claim a point card from the top row by exchanging the required spices from your caravan, as indicated on the card. You must pay the exact amount of spices.

At the end of the game, players calculate their total victory points. Points are awarded for each claimed orange point card based on its printed value. Additionally, each gold coin collected is worth 3 victory points, and each silver coin is worth 1 victory point. Any remaining spices in a player's caravan are also converted into points, with every three spices equaling one point.

The game concludes when a player claims their sixth point card (in a 2-3 player game) or their fifth point card (in a 4-5 player game). Once this condition is met, the current round continues until every player has had an equal number of turns. After the last player completes their turn, the game officially ends, and final scores are tallied.