The Oracle of Delphi

To set up the game, arrange the board tiles to form an island chain, ensuring all water spaces are connected. Place the Zeus standee in the central water space. Distribute offering cubes, temples, and monster tokens on their respective islands according to the player count. Shuffle the Oracle, Injury, Equipment, and Companion card decks, placing them in designated areas. Each player receives a player board, a ship token, six god tokens, and a starting number of favor tokens based on turn order. Players also place their shrine tokens on their player board and randomly assign three colored task tokens and one white task token to each of the 12 task slots on the Zeus tiles.

The objective of The Oracle of Delphi is to be the first player to successfully complete all 12 legendary tasks set by Zeus and return your ship to the central island where Zeus is located. These tasks involve building shrines on islands of your color, delivering statues to matching colored building sites, making offerings at matching colored temples, and slaying monsters of specific colors.

Each player's turn consists of three phases: checking injury cards, performing actions, and consulting the Oracle. In the injury phase, players check if they have any injury cards; if not, they gain two favor tokens or advance a god one step. If a player has three injury cards of the same color or six in total, they must discard three cards and their turn ends. In the action phase, players use their three Oracle dice (which they rolled at the end of the previous turn), up to one Oracle card, and any special god abilities to perform actions. When a die is used, it's moved to the center of the wheel. Favor tokens can be spent to re-color a die. Finally, in the consult the Oracle phase, the current player rolls their three Oracle dice, places them on their player board, and draws a random Injury card. Other players may then move one matching colored god one space on the god track if it's already on the track.

The game is won by the first player to complete all 12 legendary tasks and successfully return their ship to Zeus on the central island. If multiple players complete their tasks and reach Zeus in the same round, tie-breaking rules apply. The player with the most Oracle cards wins the tie. If there's still a tie, the player with the most favor tokens is declared the winner.

The game ends immediately when a player completes all 12 of their assigned tasks and returns their ship to the central island with Zeus. Once this happens, all other players get one final turn to try and complete their tasks and return to Zeus. After everyone has taken an equal number of turns, the game concludes, and the winner is determined by the scoring rules.