My First Stone Age Rulebook

Table of Contents

Overview
Components and Setup
- Components
- Setup
Goal of the Game
Game Sequence
- Flip Over a Forest Token
- Move Your Figure
Perform an Action
Game End
Credits

Overview

2-4 players
5 years and up
15 minutes

Components and Setup

Components

1 rulebook
1 game board
4 settlements
4 player markers (blue, yellow, green, pink)
4 player figures (blue, yellow, green, pink)
20 goods (4 each of berry, fish, pot, arrowhead, and tooth)
15 hut tokens
2 dog tokens
14 forest tokens (6x dice, 5x goods (berry, fish, pot, arrowhead, tooth), 1x trading post, 1x dog, 1x building site)

Setup

Place the game board in the middle of the table.
Each player chooses a color and takes the settlement with the mammoth in their color. During the game, goods and huts will be placed on a player's settlement.

You will have to build your settlements before you play your first game. Fold the bottom part (with the fire pit) and slide the top part into place. Once the settlement is built, it should look like this.
Each player takes the player figure and the player marker of their color. Place the figure on the building site in the middle of the board and place the marker in front of you. You will move the figure around the game board to collect different goods. If playing with less than 4 players, place the unused player figures and markers in the box.
Now you place the goods where they belong on the board. If you are playing with 3 or 4 players, you will use 4 of each good (berry, fish, pot, arrowhead, tooth). If playing with only 2 players, you will only use 3 of each good (place the unused goods in the box). Place exactly 1 of each good on the trading post.
Set the remaining goods on their corresponding spaces of the game board. The teeth are placed with the mammoths in the swamp; the berries by the bushes in the forest; the pots in the clay area; the arrowheads with the artisans on the mountain and the fish by the fishermen in the river.
Shuffle the hut tokens face down (so that the goods cannot be seen). Make 3 piles of 5 huts each, and place them on the 3 hut spaces at the bottom left of the board. Then flip the first tile of each pile face up.
Place the 2 dog tokens on the spaces provided for them on the board.
Shuffle the forest tokens and placed them face down (forest side up) so that they surround the game board. There should be 4 tokens both above the board, 4 below the board, 3 to the left, and 3 to the right.

Goal of the Game

You are trying to collect different goods and spend them at the building site to build huts. The first player to build 3 huts wins the game.

Game Sequence

Players take turns in clockwise order. The youngest player starts.

On your turn, perform the 3 following steps:

Flip over a forest token – Move your figure – Perform an action

Then, the next player in clockwise order gets to play his turn.

Flip Over a Forest Token

Flip over 1 of the forest tokens currently facedown. The revealed forest token tells you what you do on your turn.

Example: The forest token you flip over stays by the board where you found it! Flip over 1 forest token.

Move Your Figure

Your forest token has a die on it

If your forest token has one of these dice: move your figure in the direction of the arrows by a number of spaces equal to the number of pips on the die.

Example: You flipped over the forest token that has a die with 2 pips. You move your figure 2 spaces forward, moving from the building site to the tooth site.

Your forest token has a symbol on it

If your forest token has one of these symbols: move your figure directly to the space on the board that matches that symbol.

Example: You flipped over the forest token that has a fish on it. Move your figure directly to the fish space.

Perform an Action

Whenever you move to a space, you can perform an action there. The action you perform depends on what space you land on.

Which Action Space Did You Land On?

Berry, Fish, Pot, Arrowhead, or Tooth

Take 1 good from the space you landed on and place it behind your settlement. You are allowed to hide your goods from the other players. If the space you landed on is empty, then that's bad luck! You don't get anything this turn.

Example: You landed on the tooth space. Take 1 tooth and place it behind your settlement.

Trading post

Trade as many goods from your settlement with the trading post as you wish. You may trade as many or as few as you would like.

Each good you take from the trading post must be replaced with one from your settlement.

The goods you take are placed behind your settlement, and the goods you trade away are placed on the trading post space. There should always be 5 goods at the trading post.

Example: You landed on the trading post. You decide to trade 1 fish and 1 pot from your settlement for 1 tooth and 1 berry from the trading post. You place the fish and pot on the trading post, and place the tooth and berry behind your settlement.

The dog space

Take 1 dog token and place it next to your settlement so that the other players can see it.

If there are no dog tokens next to the dog space, you may steal one from another player. If the dog tokens are held by 2 different players, you must steal the dog token from the closest player to your left who has one.

If you already have both dog tokens in front of you when you land on the dog space, then you simply do not take anything.

The dog tokens will help you build huts (see the construction site rules).

Example: You landed on the dog space. Take 1 dog token from the board and place it next to your settlement.

Construction site – When you land here, you perform 2 actions: build 1 hut (optional) and turn all forest tokens face down (mandatory).

Build 1 Hut

Do you have all the goods pictured on 1 of the available huts? If so, take those goods from behind your settlement and return them to their appropriate spaces on the board to build that hut (berries to the berry space, fish to the fish space, etc.).

Then take the hut you built and place it in one of the three slots on your settlement.

Example: You landed on the construction site. You have all the goods you need to build this hut. Return the 2 goods (fish, fish) to their space on the board. Then take the hut and place it in a slot on your settlement.

If you do not have enough goods to build any of the huts, then you may not place a hut on your settlement this turn.

You may only build 1 hut per turn.

Did you build a hut this turn? Then you must reveal a new hut (the face down hut that was underneath the hut you built). Is that pile of huts empty? Then there will only be 2 face up huts from now on.

Every time you build a hut, your settlement gets bigger.

Dog tokens

A dog token is a joker. That means that when you want to build a hut, you may use a dog token in place of one of the goods you need to build a hut. Return 1 dog token to the dog space, and pay 1 less good than pictured on the hut. Then place the hut in a slot on your settlement.

If you have both dog tokens, you may use both of them when building a hut.

Example: You want to build this hut, but you don't have any teeth. Instead, you pay 1 pot, 1 arrowhead and 1 dog token and return them to the board. With the help of the dog, you built the hut without paying a tooth. Place the hut in a slot on your settlement.

Turn the Forest Tokens Face Down

Whenever you land on the construction site, you must turn all the revealed forest tokens face down. It doesn't matter whether you built a hut or not.

Example: Turn all revealed forest tokens face down.

Then you must swap the positions of 2 of the forest tokens. Make sure everyone watches you do it.

Example: You swapped these 2 forest tokens.

Don't forget to flip the forest tokens face down after visiting the construction site. If you forget to do it, it's no problem. Just make sure you do it as soon as you realize the mistake. (If you look, you'll see that I left you a reminder on the game board.)

Game End

The game ends immediately when someone has built their 3rd hut. Their settlement is complete and they are the winner. Congratulations!

Have lots of fun in the Stone Age!

Credits

Marco Teubner dedicates this game to his son, Paul. The publisher and designer would like to thank all the playtesters for their hard work.

Rules editors: Gregor Abraham and Hanna & Alex Weiß

Special thanks to Canadian caveman Adam Marostica for the English text.