House of Fado

Place the game board in the middle of the table. Set up musician cards in the top section, placing a die marked '1' on each to indicate level one. Remove specific musician cards for 2 or 3 player games. Place critics on the street, one fewer than the number of players. Prepare customers by putting 2 grey, 3 black, and 4 brown customers per player in the bag, then draw customers to fill all street spaces, reserving pink spaces for critics. Prepare the rehearsal room by shuffling fado tiles face down, filling four spaces face up, and making a draw pile. Divide notation tiles into piles on their corresponding spaces. Shuffle billboard markers and place one on each space. Place the five stars on their appropriate places. Decide on the first player and give them the Portuguese guitar. Each player chooses a restaurant board, covers the rightmost table with a decoration tile, takes three workers, five money, and one treble clef notation tile, and places their disc on the scoring track.

The objective of House of Fado is to become the most prestigious restaurant owner in Lisbon. Players achieve this by strategically filling their restaurant tables with customers, hiring the best fado singers and guitarists, entertaining critics, composing new fados, and expanding their restaurant. Each successful action earns prestige points, and the player with the most prestige points after the third star has been claimed wins the game.

On your turn, you take one of your workers and place it on an available action space on the board to perform the associated action. Workers remain on the board until you decide to take them off. If you place your worker on a space already occupied by another player's worker, you 'bump' that worker. The owner of the bumped worker decides which of the three available spaces it moves to and immediately collects the rewards from that new space. A golden rule is that you cannot place a worker on an action field where you already have a worker, nor can you take a worker from an action space and return it to the same space.

At the end of the game, a final scoring takes place. Each musician tile in your restaurant scores points equal to their fame. Each player scores points for the stars they have accumulated. For the billboards, the player with the most cubes next to a billboard gets the highest number of points indicated, the second player gets the next highest, and so on. You need to have at least one cube at a billboard to score it. In case of a tie for billboard scoring, add up the prestige points for the tied places, divide them by the number of tied players, and round down. You also get points depending on the number of music pieces you wrote. Finally, you get one point for every five money you have left over.

The game ends immediately when three of the five stars have been claimed. After the third star is claimed, players finish the current round, and then a final scoring takes place. The player with the most prestige points after this final scoring wins the game.