The Taverns of Tiefenthal

To set up The Taverns of Tiefenthal, place the monastery board centrally with snap tokens and the turn marker at space one. Sort all tavern and guest cards into face-up piles by their front symbols, removing unused starter cards and specific guests for a two-player game. Each player takes a tavern board, matching monastery and safe markers, a beer coaster, four white dice, and three colored dice of their choice. Players assemble their tavern board with its ten equipment tiles and create a starting deck of seven regular visitors, one server, one table, and one brewer. The player last in a tavern receives the beer mug marker to indicate first player.

The objective of The Taverns of Tiefenthal is to prove your establishment is the most popular in the village. As a tavern owner, you must compete against rival pubs to attract the wealthiest clients and nobles. By hiring new staff, increasing your seating capacity, and brewing more beer, you earn victory points. The player who amasses the most victory points by the end of eight rounds wins the game.

The game is played over eight rounds, each divided into seven sequential phases: New Evening, Guests Arriving, Servers Arriving, Planning Actions, Serving Guests, Upgrading, and Closing Time. During Guests Arriving, players simultaneously draw cards from their deck to fill their tavern tables. In Servers Arriving, players draw servers to gain dice. In Planning Actions, players roll and pass dice around the table, selecting one at a time to place on action spaces. During Serving Guests, players use dice and resources to collect coins and beer, spend them to recruit guests, buy upgrades, and advance on tracks.

Scoring in The Taverns of Tiefenthal occurs at the end of the final round. Players count all victory point symbols located in the top left corner of every card in their entire deck, which includes their draw deck, hand, tavern tables, and discard pile. The player with the highest total wins. In the event of a tie, the tied player who has stored the most coins and beer wins; if still tied, victory is shared.

The game automatically ends after the completion of the eighth round. During the Closing Time phase of the eighth round, the round marker on the monastery track is checked. If it has reached the final eighth space, the game concludes, and players proceed immediately to final scoring. Otherwise, the beer mug marker is passed clockwise, and a new round begins.