Rules of the Universe!

How to win

  • Be the last man standing!

Setup

  • Give the Lucky Coin to the player closest to the game owner.
  • Give the Bidding Coins 1-11 to each player.
  • Shuffle the character cards and reveal x+1 cards where x is the number of players in the game.
  • Bid on characters!
    Bidding
    • All players place an auction coin facedown and reveal simultaneously.
    • Highest bid chooses a character first. In the event of a tie, if the player with the Lucky Coin is involved in the tie that player flips the coin and if "LUCKY!" is the result that player wins, but if "UNLUCKY!" is the result that player loses.
    • If the player with the Lucky Coin isn't involved in the tie, the Lucky Coin passes in turn order until someone involved in the tie possesses it.
    • If the tie involves more than 2 people, after the result of the first flip the Lucky Coin passes as needed and is flipped again and will continue to be passed as there are still ties.
    Example: 6 players all use their #11 bid resulting in a 6 way tie. The player with the Lucky Coin flips and the result is "UNLUCKY!". This player, Joseph, is now last to pick of the 6 players. Next turn is Deanna's turn and her result is "LUCKY!" so she will be the first to pick a card. Next up is Pat and his result is "UNLUCKY!", so he will be second to last to pick a card. After Pat it's Dwight's turn and his result is "LUCKY!" so he will be second to pick a card. Next is Jeremy's turn and his result is "UNLUCKY!" making him third to last to pick a card which means that Rich will pick a card third.
  • After all players have picked a character card the coins used for bidding and the remaining character card are then discarded leaving each player with one character card and 10 auction coins.
  • Shuffle the 10 legendary cards and 1 of each basic card per player to form the Pool Supply Deck. A 3 player game should have 40 cards in the Pool Supply Deck, 3 of each basic card and the 10 Legendary cards.
  • Each round of bidding will reveal x+1 cards from the Pool Supply Deck and players will bid as described previously.
  • After the ten rounds of bidding, each player will have a character card and 10 player cards, and the 10 discarded Pool Cards are returned to the box.
  • Each player places their character card in front of them in their play area and gets health tokens as many as needed and places them on their character card.
  • The ten player cards form their hand and you are ready to fight and find the Champion of the Universe!

Gameplay

  • First player is the player who used the Lucky Coin last (or who started with it if no one used it).
  • On a players turn they choose one card from their hand to use as an attack on one opponent.
    • The attack cannot target the same target as the previous turns attack or someone who has already been damaged by two different players this round.
    • You must make an attack if able.
    • The attack card is placed face-down and the target of the attack can choose to play a card from their hand as a defense.
    • The attack card is then revealed and the difference between the attack strength and the defense strength is inflicted as damage.
    • After the attack, the attack card and defense card (if applicable) are placed in their respective discard piles.
    • On every players turn, including your own, you may use 1 of your cards for its magic ability by Exhausting it.
    • At the end of every players turn, wounds set in-- if you are at 0 health or if all of your cards are Exhausted, your character dies and you are NOT the Champion of the Universe!
    • At the end of any players turn that all players have 0 cards in hand, all players take their discard piles into their hands. Cards that are Exhausted do not return to their owners hands.
    • Health cannot be higher than your characters starting health and cannot be reduced lower than 0.
    • In the event that all players are Exhausted or die at the end of a turn, the player who last played a card is declared Winner by Cunning!