Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 6th Extension
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 6th Extension Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- Components
- Clinic Randomizer
- Little Blue Pills
- Playing the Game
- Phase 1: Actions
- Phase 2: Business
- Phase 3: Admin
- Clinic Addict
- Playing the Game
- Phase 1: Actions
- Phase 2: Business
- Phase 3: Admin
- End of the Game
- Disgruntled Patients
- Playing the Game
- Phase 1: Actions
- Phase 2: Business
- Nursing Assistant
- Playing the Game
- Phase 1: Actions
- Phase 2: Business
- Phase 3: Admin
- End of the Game
- Medical Capsules
- The Physiotherapist
- Playing the Game
- Phase 1: Actions
- Phase 2: Business
- Phase 3: Admin
- End of the Game
Components
The Physiotherapist
- 4 Physiotherapists
Clinic Randomizer
- 36 Module cards
Clinic Addict
- 4 Clinic Geek Addicts
- 4 pink medical capsules
- 8 white cubes
- 8 yellow cubes
- 4 orange cubes
- 4 red cubes
Little Blue Pills
- 4 blue medical capsules
- 8 Lively Elders
Medical Capsules
- 12 white medical capsules
- 6 yellow medical capsules
- 4 orange medical capsules
- 3 red medical capsules
Nursing Assistant
- 4 Nursing Assistants
Disgruntled Patients
- 16 Disgruntled Patients
Extra Components
- A random set of extra components (at least 50 pieces among all expansions).
Clinic Randomizer
With more than 45 expansion modules (if you have the base game, The Extension, 2nd Extension, 3rd Extension, 4th Extension, 5th Extension, and now the 6th Extension), it might be difficult to choose among all of them. This deck of cards will fix everything and will save you a lot of time.
Components
- 36 Module cards
Setup
Anatomy of a card
Each card depicts:
- the components required
- a colored disc that identifies which box it comes from (orange for the base game, red for The Extension, blue for 2nd Extension, green for 3rd Extension, and so on…). If there are two discs, you will use both!
Before setup, agree on the number of cards you will include, and draw that many random Module cards. We recommend not using more than 5 cards, to reduce the interaction between the extensions, and 4 is a good number. If you are not happy with one card, just discard it and draw another one. Variety and fun are the purpose of this "expansion", after all.
Simply take the required components from the indicated boxes, and read the corresponding rules from its rulebook. Play, and that's it!
Extra Components
I have included a grab bag of spare components from all expansions as a bonus. Be creative, and share your design ideas with the community, or at [email protected].
Little Blue Pills
With increasing age, more "special health" issues arise in daily life (or more to the point, they don't rise, ahem)…. Our clinic is now able to treat our Lively Elders (or others) to recover perfect sexual health! But don't forget to take your little blue pills…
Components
- 4 blue medical capsules
- 8 Lively Elders
Setup
Place one Lively Elder on the second multicolored patient cube.
Place one Lively Elder on 10 on the Popularity track of the Main board, and place one Lively Elder on 20.
Put one blue capsule per player on the 10th space of the Time track (see example for a 3-player game).
Playing the Game
Phase 1: Actions
New Patients Schedule Appointments
After everyone has performed their action, new patients will schedule appointments.
Before drawing cubes, when the Action marker moves from space 2 to space 3, add one Lively Elder to the first (rightmost) space of the Psychiatric queue (if there was already a patient there, move them left one space to make room. If the queue was already full, return the patient that gets pushed out to the bag). A Lively Elder is in a hurry to receive his treatment: Some things can't wait!
Action 3: Admit Patients
Admitting a Lively Elder
Place your Lively Elderly Patient as if it were a normal patient, in an empty space of the psychiatric pre-admissions on your player board. He comes with a car, of course to speed things up :=) but cannot use helipads.
Move
The Lively Elders move as normal patients (not as normal Elders).
Note: You cannot leave a Lively Elder in pre-admissions. He must be treated for his "illness" this round. Needs must be satisfied!
When you reach a space of the Time track where there is a blue capsule, you can take it from the main board and put it in front of you. You can only have one blue capsule "in stock" at a time.
Phase 2: Business
Patient Care and Income
Lively Elders count as normal patients for all module capacity concerns; however, they will refuse treatment until they are the only patient in the room.
A doctor cannot treat a Lively Elder. Only one nurse and one orderly must be in the treatment room. You also must give him one blue capsule.
Each successfully treated lively elder generates $18 income for you +1 Popularity, plus the usual additional $2 for each garden adjacent to the room, and $3 for each extinguisher adjacent to the room (as well as the satellite TV bonus; see Satellite TV).
But the Lively Elder does not immediately leave the game like other patients: He must walk out of the Clinic via any Entrance of your choice, spending the time to get there. Only then do you remove his car.
Place the spent blue capsule on the first empty space of the Time track among the following: 15, 20, 25, and so on…. beyond your colored disc.
Expenses
As usual, you can use money earned from this special treatment to buy popularity. The orderly in the treatment room does not reduce the Upkeep of your clinic (they would need to be in a supply room). :=(
NEW! Blue Pill Upkeep
If you still have a blue capsule in front of you, you must pay $1 to keep it "working" for the next round.
Gain Popularity
The last player that reaches the 10th and 20th Popularity on the main board automatically admits the Lively Elder via an Entrance.
Phase 3: Admin
Each untreated Lively Elder in your Clinic earns you −3 Popularity, and you must spend time to move him to any Entrance, where he drives away. Place this Lively Elder next to the Main board, ready to enter your Clinic for urgent matters….
The Lively Elders on the Notepad of the Main board are NEVER removed. They really want to be treated, you know….
Clinic Addict
We're all a bit of a geek in one way or another, but here we're dealing with an addiction to the Clinic game, and that's the problem. In this expansion I suggest you try to treat yourself, yes YOU the player reading this and AGAIN playing Clinic, so you can play another game someday, once you're cured! Small City Deluxe Edition, for example!
In this expansion, you will discover a new type of patient, who is a bit weird: the Clinic Addict (YOU)! It's almost a shame that you have to play an extra game of Clinic to receive the treatment you need. Aren't we going around in circles a bit?
Components
- 4 Clinic Addict meeples, representing YOU
- 8 white cubes
- 8 yellow cubes
- 4 orange cubes
- 4 red cubes
- 4 pink medical capsules
Setup
Each player takes a set of 2 white cubes, 2 yellow cubes, 1 orange cube, 1 red cube, and 1 pink capsule, and places the new components next to their board.
Also take the Clinic Addict of your color! This is YOU! You are now a patient in the game you are playing!
Place YOUR meeple on the first Entrance with a white cube next to your meeple, to indicate the degree of your addiction to Clinic. And park your car.
Will you manage to treat your Clinic Addiction before the end of the game? That's the question!
Playing the Game
To be able to treat your addiction, you need to purchase the pink capsule you have in front of you. The longer you wait to purchase it, the more expensive it will be. But don't worry, your own clinic pays for your treatment….
Phase 1: Actions
Execute Actions
Action 3: Admit Patients
Admit You Have a Problem
As a bonus action, you are allowed to purchase your pink capsule. It costs $5 × the round number (e.g. it costs $15 in Round 3). Place it in any Service Hub of your choice.
Move
YOU and your condition cubes (see Phase 3: Admin) move as a unit, always together, but otherwise just like normal patients: 1 Time per space, YOU can use conveyors, etc. The big difference is that YOU do not count toward any module's capacity.
The most useful destinations for YOU are as follows:
- A module where you plan to treat a patient (such as a treatment room).
- The service hub with the pink capsule that could cure your addiction, where you pick it up. Picking up the pink capsule takes 0 Time; when you do this, the pink capsule stays with YOU along the way.
- A treatment room with no other patients, along with the pink capsule, so doctors can treat your addiction.
Phase 2: Business
Patient Care and Income
If YOU are in a module with a patient when they are treated (even funny treatments that don't completely cure the patient, and even treating Disgruntled Patients), you earn an additional bonus of $5.
If YOU are in a treatment room with no other patients, with 1 matching doctor for each condition cube YOU have (as usual, nurses bridge the gap between colors) AND the pink capsule picked up earlier, YOU are cured: Discard all condition cubes, and remove YOURSELF from the clinic (without forgetting your car!). You earn no money for being cured… but YOU also didn't have to pay, so it all works out.
Example: This purple Clinic Addict needs a white doctor and a red doctor. As usual, Purple can employ nurses to compensate for the color differences. So, 2 yellow doctors and 3 nurses would also be able to administer the pink capsule to this obsessive gamer….
Phase 3: Admin
If YOU are still in your clinic, your addiction increases in severity by one color: Replace the cube next to YOU with the next one, per the normal severity schema in Clinic: white→yellow→orange→red; however, if your addiction was already red, leave the red cube there and stack a white cube on it, which will increment in future rounds if your addiction remains untreated.
End of the Game
If you have not cured YOUR addiction by buying, transporting, and using a pink capsule, you are ineligible to win the game; only players who have had their Clinic addiction treated are considered in the final scoring. There is no other award for being cured, except that you are no longer a Clinic addict! Use the usual rules to determine which of the players, who were cured of Clinic Mania, wins.
Disgruntled Patients
Components
- 16 Disgruntled Patients
Setup
Put 2 Disgruntled Patients per player in the Patient bag. Place 2 Disgruntled Patients per player beside the Patient bag.
Example: In a 4-player game, 2 × 4 disgruntled patients go into the bag, and the same number (8) go beside it.
Playing the Game
Disgruntled Patients may appear during the game when you draw them from the bag during New Patients Schedule Appointments, or if you decide to "quickly" treat a normal patient during Phase 2: Business, Patient Care and Income!
Phase 1: Actions
Execute Actions
Action 3: Admit Patients
Admit the Patient
Disgruntled Patients work exactly like normal patients on the Notepad, and when you admit them, and they come with a car.
Move
A Disgruntled Patient at one of your Entrances must move to the nearest Service Hub.
A Disgruntled Patient in your pre-admissions moves to a treatment room or operating room of the appropriate service type, just like a normal patient.
Disgruntled Patients are very impatient, so they move twice as quickly through your clinic. Count how much time the disgruntled patient would need to reach their destination (if they were a normal patient) and divide the total by 2 (rounded down, which could be as low as 0 Time); that's how much time they take.
For each person (patient or staff!) a disgruntled patient encounters along the way, −1 popularity immediately (except for the medical staff in the destination room who will treat them)! So try to find a clear path for them!
Tip: I recommend that you start moving the other people and THEN the Disgruntled Patients. You can minimize your popularity loss… but you will spend more time.
Phase 2: Business
Patient Care and Income
If you wish, you may hastily treat any or all patients in Treatment Rooms (not in Operating Rooms, etc.) as if they were one color less severe. You will gain the same money, but these hastily treated patients will be back as Disgruntled Patients next round. If there are not enough Disgruntled Patients beside the bag, you cannot use this [mis]treatment option; resolve it in turn order.
Hasty Treatment: For hasty treatment…
- a white patient needs to be treated by 0 doctors and 1 nurse.
- a yellow patient needs to be treated by a white doctor.
- an orange patient needs to be treated by a yellow doctor (or a white doctor with 1 nurse).
- a red patient needs to be treated by an orange doctor (or a yellow doctor with 1 nurse, or a white doctor with 2 nurses).
For each patient you give Hasty Treatment, take a Disgruntled Patient from beside the bag, and place it on one of your Entrances… along with parking a car for them, of course. This Disgruntled Patient will (must) enter your clinic next round.
For proper treatment, a Disgruntled Patient requires any medical staff (Doctors, Nurses, Nursing Assistants) anywhere to hear their complaint; however, that staff member cannot do anything else this phase (so a Nursing Assistant can only deal with the complaint — see Nursing Assistant). Each Disgruntled Patient that you properly treat by hearing them out earns you $5.
Note from the Designer
I wanted to stay positive in the game, so Disgruntled Patients only represent less than 10% of the total Patients!
Nursing Assistant
Components
- 4 Nursing Assistants
Setup
As soon as the opening of the new Deluxe Clinic in Small City you welcome one Nursing Assistant who is very motivated to help you! Give each player one Nursing Assistant and park their car. Place your NA on your first Entrance, optimistic and eager to help.
Playing the Game
The Nursing Assistant is supposed to help your Nurses. Your NA is useless until you hire at least one Nurse.
Phase 1: Actions
Move
The Nursing Assistant moves just like most other meeples: 1 Time per space, can use conveyors, etc. But if they move with a Nurse, this works differently: the Nurse + NA move as a unit, so the duo takes 1 Time per space, rather than 2.
If you don't have any Nurses in your Clinic, just move the Nursing Assistant off the Entrance to wherever you want; the NA is not authorized to work without a Nurse, and will wait respectfully, without touching anything!
Phase 2: Business
Patient Care and Income
The Nursing Assistant counts as 0 toward the module capacity. They only assist Nurses and they count as one Nurse toward treating a patient, as long as they are part of a nurse's team. However, the NA is eager and full of energy: As you treat your Patients one by one, you are allowed to move your NA to help the next Nurse, and the next Nurse. That's right: The Nursing Assistant is the ONLY person in the Clinic who is able to move while patients are treated, to help any and all Nurses of the Clinic. It's like having a high-speed extra nurse… who can't work without a proper nurse. The NA does, however, spend time as usual while moving during this phase.
Example: You have a treatment room with 2 patients and an operating room with 1 patient. Each patient has a seriously mismatched doctor, and each doctor is 1 nurse short of treating their patient. Not to worry! Nursing Assistant to the rescue! Your NA provides 1 "extra nurse" in each of these 3 rooms, spending time moving between them. You also have another treatment room with a white patient and a yellow doctor, but no nurses there. The NA cannot help the doctor there, because there is no qualified nurse.
Expenses
The salary of the Nursing Assistant is equal to the number of Nurses you have in your Clinic.
Example: If you have 3 Nurses, you must pay the NA $3; so your total salaries for nursing staff would be $6.
Phase 3: Admin
The Nursing Assistant teleports to one of your Entrances (not a Helipad) for 0 Time. The NA's car never leaves (they're still at your clinic the whole time).
End of the Game
Your Nursing Assistant earns you Popularity equal to the number of Nurses you have in your Clinic.
Medical Capsules
Components
- 12 white medical capsules
- 6 yellow medical capsules
- 4 orange medical capsules
- 3 red medical capsules
Setup
Remove the Capsule tiles from their bag, and fill the bag with these actual capsules according to the player count.
The Physiotherapist
Components
- 4 Physiotherapists
Setup
You only use 1 Physiotherapist per player in the game. Place 1 Physiotherapist per player near the Main board.
Whatever the player count, you always use the Orthopedics Service on the Notepad, even if these service hubs are not in the game.
Example: In a 2-player game, some patients will arrive in the Orthopedics queue during each New Patients Schedule Appointments, but not during Setup… and there will be no Orthopedics service hubs available.
Playing the Game
Phase 1: Actions
Execute Actions
Action 3: Admit Patients
Admit the Patient
You cannot move patients from other service queues to the Orthopedics queue, and you cannot move patients from the Orthopedics queue to any other service queue. Patients from the Orthopedics queue go to your Orthopedics pre-admissions, as they usually would (4 spaces).
New Patients Schedule Appointments
Each time you draw a white patient from the cloth bag, place this patient in the Orthopedics queue, unless there is no room left (so, max 4). If the queue is full, queue the white patient per the usual rules.
Note: This means that in a 1- or 2-player game, the Orthopedics queue will only have white patients.
Move
The Physiotherapist moves the same way as most other meeples in the Clinic: 1 time per space, can use conveyors, etc. The Physiotherapist is not a doctor, and also does not count toward module capacity. E.g., you can have 2 Doctors and 1 Physiotherapist in a Treatment Room.
In a 1- or 2-player game, you can move the white patient from your Orthopedics pre-admissions to any treatment room or operating room (because you have no Orthopedics service hubs). At other player counts, you must move this patient to receive Orthopedic treatment, as usual.
Phase 2: Business
Patient Care and Income
Massage
Before the usual Patient Care step, see if you have a Physiotherapist in a Treatment Room with a white patient. The Physiotherapist can treat 1 white patient in a Treatment Room using massage therapy (Remember: 1–2p: any service; otherwise, in an Orthopedic treatment room). This is an extra treatment to ease your patient, that does not cure them. That means you do not remove the patient (and their car); the patient still stays for the normal Patient Care step to be treated (or not) by a doctor.
If your Physiotherapist massages a white patient, you earn $5, but no bonuses are applicable to this. Normal bonuses will still apply to normal treatment (if it occurs).
Pay Your Employees
The Physiotherapist has a salary of $1.
Phase 3: Admin
Miscellaneous
- After the Reset Turn Order step, ONE player can hire ONE Physiotherapist. To know which player is allowed to hire the Physiotherapist, total the severity of patient cubes you have on your player board (including pre-admissions):
- white counts as 1
- yellow counts as 2
- orange counts as 3
- red counts as 4
And from the various expansions:
- pink (baby) counts as 5 (2E: Pediatrics)
- brown (burn victim) counts as 5 (3E: Fire Trucks / Helicopter)
- gray (unclassified) counts as 5 (3E: Triage)
- brick red (critical) counts as 5 (3E: Triage)
- purple (disgruntled) counts as 0 (6E: Disgruntled Patients)
- green (zombie) counts as 0 (CD: Zombies in a Clinic)
The player who has the lowest total gets to hire the Physiotherapist. In case of a tie, the tied player with the least Popularity gets to hire the Physiotherapist. In case of second tie, in reverse player order, the tied player gets to hire the Physiotherapist.
However, you cannot have more than 1 Physiotherapist in your clinic. If the player who is allowed to hire the Physiotherapist already has one, no Physiotherapist is hired this round.
Hiring a Physiotherapist costs $4. Of course, the Physiotherapist comes with a car that you must immediately park.
End of the Game
You gain 5 Popularity if you have a Physiotherapist!