Carnuta Rulebook

Table of Contents

Overview and Goal of the Game
Contents
Setup
- For Each Player
- For All Players (in the Center of the Table)
Card Anatomy
Gameplay Overview
End of Turn
Example of a Full Turn
End of the Game
- Example
Description of Points
Credits

Overview and Goal of the Game

A game of Carnuta plays over a series of turns. On your turn, you will take 2 actions, the same or different, out of the 4 possible. The goal of the game is to create a potion by playing cards in front of you. Each card is worth points depending on the ingredients in your potion. The game ends once one player plays an 11th card in front of them.

Optimize the combinations of your ingredients to gain the highest score and win the game!

72 Ingredient cards
22 double-sided runes
4 boards
8 Padlock tokens
8 Sickle tokens
8 Bonus Ingredient tokens
4 counters
1 Ancestor token
1 score pad

Setup

For Each Player

Choose a board and place it in front of you.
Take a counter and insert it in the window of your board on level "1."
Place 4 runes, 2 on the Sun side and 2 on the Moon side, on the first four spaces on your board.
Take 2 Padlock tokens and place 1 on each of the last two spaces on your board.
Place 2 Sickle tokens on your board.
Shuffle the 8 starting cards (see Card Anatomy) and give 1 to each player. Place your card in front of you, faceup.
Place the Ancestor token in front of a random player: They become the Ancestor for this game.

For All Players (in the Center of the Table)

Sort the Ingredient cards into Day and Night (see Card Anatomy), shuffle each stack separately, and form 2 decks, facedown.
Reveal the top 4 cards of each deck and place them in a row, faceup.
Leave a space for cards discarded during the game.
Make a reserve of runes according to the number of players:

Number of players	2	3	4
Number of faceup runes	1 Sun and 1 Moon	2 Sun and 2 Moon	3 Sun and 3 Moon

Place the 8 Bonus Ingredient tokens nearby.
Return any remaining components back to the box; they will not be used during this game.

Card Anatomy

Back

A. Starting card
B. Day Ingredients: Clover, Flower, Egg, and Honey
C. Night Ingredients: Skull, Butterfly, Berry, and Mushroom

Front

D. Rune cost
E. Ingredient
F. Ingredient reminder
G. Points

Gameplay Overview

The game plays clockwise, starting with the Ancestor.

On your turn, take 2 actions from the 4 following actions:

Take a Card
Play a Card
Take Runes
Flip Runes

Your 2 actions can be the same or different, and you may do them in any order.

Take a Card

Take a card from the 8 visible in the center of the table and add it to your hand. Replace it immediately with the top card of the corresponding deck.

You may have any number of cards in hand during your turn, but you are limited to 3 cards at the end of your turn.

Play a Card

Choose a card from your hand and pay the cost shown with the runes on your board:

Flip the rune shown to its other side.
Return the rune shown to the reserve, without flipping it.

Then place the card in front of you by making columns per Ingredient. Stack the cards so you can always see the Ingredient reminder and the points the card is worth.

Special cards

At the end of the game, double cards count as 2 Ingredients of the type shown.
Salt is a Wild Ingredient. When you play a Salt card, stack it on a card already played in front of you. At the end of the game, the Salt counts as 1 extra Ingredient of this type. Note: Once placed, a Salt card cannot be moved.

Finally, move your counter by one space. It must always correspond to the number of cards played in front of you.

Certain spaces offer a bonus. When you reach one, immediately benefit from the corresponding effect:

Remove a Padlock from your board. From now on you have an extra space for your runes.
Take a Bonus Ingredient token from those available in the center of the table and place it in front of you. At the end of the game, this counts as 1 extra Ingredient of the type shown.

Take Runes

Fill the empty spaces on your board, as many as possible, with runes from the reserve, without flipping them. You may take either Moons or Suns, but never both types of runes in the same action.

Note: Spaces blocked by a Padlock are not yet available.

Flip Runes

Flip runes on your board so that you only have runes of the same type faceup: Moons or Suns.

Sickle

At any time on your turn, in addition to your 2 actions, you may discard a Sickle to discard the 4 Day or Night Ingredients in the center of the table and reveal 4 new Ingredients from the corresponding deck.

Empty Deck

If a deck runs out, take all the cards of the same type (Day or Night) from the discard, shuffle them, and make a new deck.

End of Turn

End your turn by checking the 2 following points:

3 cards in hand. Discard any cards above this limit.
Move your counter. It must match the number of cards in front of you.

Example of a Full Turn

You begin your turn with 3 cards in hand and 2 runes on your board (1 Sun and 1 Moon). As your first action, you fill the spaces on your board with Moons. There are only 2 available in the reserve, so your 5th space remains empty.

As your second action, you decide to play your Berry. You add it to your Berry column by paying its cost: You flip a Moon on your board to its other side and return a second rune to the reserve.

Finally, you move your counter one space. You end your turn with 3 runes on your board (2 Sun and 1 Moon), as well as 2 cards in hand. You will be able to play your Egg or Clover on your next turn.

End of the Game

The end of the game is triggered as soon as one player plays their 11th card. Finish the current turn (until the person to the right of the Ancestor), then take a final turn.

Note: You may play more than 11 cards in front of you, even if your counter doesn't go beyond that.

Use the score pad to count the points on your cards, Ingredient by Ingredient (see Description of Points). The player with the highest score wins the game.

In case of tie, the player with the most points in a single Ingredient wins. If there's still a tie, share the victory.

Example

Eric has played: a Honey card worth 2 points with a Mushroom reminder icon, a Clover card worth 0 points, a stack of a Flower card (worth 5) under an Egg card (worth 3, with a Clover reminder icon) — Eric has no Flower cards, a Mushroom card worth 1 point (with a Clover reminder), a Berry card and a Butterfly card, each stacked with several other cards.

Honey: You gain 2 points (2×1 Mushroom).
Clover: You gain 0 points.
Flower: You have no Flower cards.
Egg: From top to bottom, you gain 6 points (2×3 Clover) and 5 points.
Mushroom: You gain 3 points (1×3 Clover, 1×0 Flower).
Skull: You have no Skull cards.
Berry: From top to bottom, you gain 2 points, 0 points, and 4 points (4×1 set of Mushroom/Clover).
Butterfly: From top to bottom, you gain 2 points, 12 points (4×3 sets of Berry/Clover), and 4 points (1×4 Butterfly).

Eric's final score pad:

Ingredient	Points
Honey	2
Clover	0
Flower	0
Egg	11
Mushroom	3
Skull	0
Berry	6
Butterfly	18
Total	40

Description of Points

(Example using the 7 Mushroom cards with point values)

A Mushroom card showing only its own points (2): Gain 2 points.
A Mushroom card showing only its own points (5): Gain 5 points.
A Mushroom card showing Clover (1) and Flower (1): Gain 1 point for each of the two Ingredients shown.
A Mushroom card showing another Mushroom (1): Gain 1 point for each Ingredient shown, including this card.
A Mushroom card showing Berry (2): Gain 2 points for each Ingredient shown.
A Mushroom card showing Skull and Honey (4): Gain 4 points for each set of 2 Ingredients shown.
A Mushroom card showing Butterfly and Egg (6): Gain 6 points for each set of 3 Ingredients shown.

Credits

Designers: Yohan Goh, Hope S. Hwang and Gary Kim

Illustrator: Davide Tosello

Credits and thanks: www.rprod.com/en/carnuta/credits

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