Orphan Black: The Card Game Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Object
• Components
• General Set-Up
• Set-Up in Front of Each Player
• Set-Up in Center of Table
• How to Read a Clone Card
• Turn Overview
• Turn Detail
• Scoring Examples
  • Example 1
  • Example 2
  • Example 3
• Game End Conditions
• How to Score
• Appendices
  • Clone Abilities
  • Clone Abilities
  • Character Influence Abilities
  • Character Influence Abilities

Object

Each player is given a Goal card identifying their faction and the 3 clones they want to influence the most. Score points by using your Influence cards and the abilities of the clones and other agents in the world of Orphan Black to sway the most clones to your faction. Score even more points by attempting to deduce which factions your opponents belong to. The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins.

Components

• 1 Scoreboard
• 3 Faction Score tokens
• 6 Player Score tokens
• 6 x 6 sets of Accusation cards
• 3 Faction cards: Prolethean, Neolutionist, The Black
• 6 Player mats
• 9 Goal cards
• 9 Clone cards
• 52 Influence cards (including 16 Character cards)

General Set-Up

1. Create the Starting Faction Set-Up: Place the factions so that they form a triangle in the same orientation as shown in the set-up picture. Neolutionists should have Proletheans to the left and The Black to the right.

2. Choose an Active Player: The player with the rarest genetic anomaly is the starting Active player.

3. Deal Starting Hands: Shuffle the 52-card Influence deck (36 number cards and 16 characters). Deal out 3 cards to each player to form their starting hand. Place the remaining Influence deck near the middle of the table.

4. Scoreboard: Place the Scoreboard and all Faction Score tokens to one side of the table.

5. Player Setup: Give each player a matching set of Player Score tokens, Player mat, and 6 Accusation cards, all of the same color/symbol.

6. Assign Goal Cards: Separate the Goal cards by faction. Shuffle each faction set separately, and discard one card from each set facedown to the box - these will not be used this game. You should be left with 6 Goal cards - shuffle these together and deal one out facedown to each player. Players should look at these in secret, then place the Goal and Accusation cards in the respective areas of their Player mat.

7. Draw a number of Target clones equal to the number of players using the following steps: Starting with the Active player and going clockwise, each player will:

   • A. Draw 1 clone and place her face-up below her respective starting faction as indicated on the upper-right hand portion of the card. Example: Alison begins in The Black faction.

Set-Up in Front of Each Player

• 1 Player mat
• 1 Goal card
• 6 Accusation cards
• 3 Influence cards

Set-Up in Center of Table

The set-up diagram labels: Clone card, Face-up Influence card, Deck of Clone cards, Facedown Influence card, Deck of Influence cards, Score tokens, Scoreboard.

How to Read a Clone Card

The Clone card diagram labels: Threshold, Starting Faction, Score Indicators, Clone's Ability.

Turn Overview

Beginning with the starting Active player and proceeding clockwise, players take turns executing the following actions in this specific order:

1. Play one Character card face-up and utilize its power (optional).
2. Play an Influence card facedown beside a clone and use that clone's ability.
3. Resolve and score any clone that has 6 Influence cards or more next to it.
4. Make an accusation (optional).
5. Draw Influence cards to bring hand back up to 3.

After a player has executed all of the requisite steps, play proceeds to the player on their left.

Turn Detail

1. Play one Character card (this is an optional action)

   • A. Character cards can be played face-up:
     • i. Reveal the Character card to all players and execute the power as described on the card. Expanded details on Character card powers can be found in the appendices. Character cards played face-up are discarded after they are used, unless specified otherwise on the card.

2. Play an Influence card

   • A. Play one Influence card facedown (which could be a normal Influence card (valued 1-3) or a Character card) on either side of a Clone card, splaying the cards such that it is easy to see how many cards are on either side of a Clone card.
     • i. Character cards played facedown do not activate that character's abilities upon playing them. They will just be a zero-valued Influence card.
   • B. When a card is played on either side of a Clone card, the Clone's ability is activated. See the appendices for further explanation of each power and examples of play.
   • C. If a Character card is flipped face-up during this phase, then ignore the text on it and count it as a zero-valued Influence card.

3. Resolve and score any clone that has a total of 6 Influence cards next to it

   • A. If, after a player has completed steps 1 and 2 and all abilities have been executed fully, any clone has 6 or more Influence cards combined to the left and right of it, the clone will resolve and be scored to one of the three factions.
   • B. To resolve:
     • i. First, turn all cards facedown, then gather the cards up from one side and shuffle them and flip them face-up on the side where they came from. Then do the same for the other side (this helps hide who played which card).

Scoring Examples

Rachel is resolving as there are 6 influence cards attached to her in total.

Example 1

In this example, the right side adds up to 8 and the left side adds up to 4. The difference between them is 4 - which is higher than the threshold of 2 (that is printed on the Rachel Clone card).

In this case, Rachel has been influenced to join the faction with their Scoring Indicator on the right side of her card: The Black.

Place the Rachel card facedown under The Black Faction card, and move The Black Score token up 2 because there are two The Black Scoring Indicators on her card.

(Left side 1+1+2=4; right side 2+3+3=8; 8-4=4.)

Example 2

The difference between both sides is not high enough to pass the threshold, so Rachel stays a Neolutionist.

Place the Rachel card facedown under the Neolutionist Faction card and move the Neolutionist Score token up 1 because there is only 1 Neolutionist Scoring Indicator on this Clone card.

(Left side 1+3+2=6; right side 1+1+3=5; 6-5=1.)

Example 3

The difference between the two sides surpasses the threshold and Rachel has been influenced to go to the Proletheans since the larger card total is to the left of her card.

Place the Rachel Clone card facedown under the Prolethean Faction card and move the Prolethean Score token up 2 because there are 2 Prolethean Scoring Indicators on this Clone card.

(Left side 3+3+0=6; right side 1+1+1=3; 6-3=3.)

Game End Conditions

The game ends when all of the clones have been resolved and scored. If the final clone has been resolved and players still haven't played all their Accusation cards, then it's too late and they will lose out on those potential points. At this time, players will gain points for having influenced their specific targets towards their faction and for having made correct accusations against other players.

How to Score

1. All players reveal their Goal card.

2. If 2 players were on the same faction, divide that faction's score in half before proceeding, rounding up, as that faction had 2 players working towards similar goals.

   • Example: If 2 players are found out to be Neolutionists and the score for Neolutionists is 9, then move the score down to 5.

3. Start with the player who resolved the last clone and resolve their Accusation cards:

   • A. Flip the Accusation card next to the 3. If the accusation was correct, then the accusing player gets 3 points. If that player was NOT correct, then place that card to the side (but do not return it to the accusing player yet) and slide all the other Accusation cards over - keeping their order intact.
   • B. Continue flipping Accusation cards and either awarding points for correct accusations or sliding other Accusation cards down. The easy way to think about it is - the first player to correctly accuse will get 3 points. The next player to correctly accuse will get 2 points. All other correct accusations will get 1 point.
   • C. To score points individually, a player takes one of their Scoring tokens and starts it on the scoreboard from the spot where their Faction Score token is located. So if their faction is Neolutionist and the score for Neolutionists is 5, then that player would start moving their own scoring token from 5.
   • D. Continue this process with each other player, moving clockwise. Once this scoring round has completed move on to:

4. Resolving Targets:

   • A. Flip over all the Clone cards under each Faction card - keeping them next to their Faction card that they ended up in.
   • B. Each player gets 2 points for each of their targets that ended up in their faction.
     • Example: You are a Neolutionist and your targets were: Rachel, Cosima, and Charlotte - Rachel and Charlotte were in the Neolutionist pile at the end of the game, so you would score 4 points.

Appendices

Clone Abilities

• Sarah - Swap 2 cards, flip 1 of them. Swap any two Influence cards then flip one of those cards from facedown to face-up or face-up to facedown.
• Alison - Flip 2 cards. Flip any two Influence cards from face-down to face-up or face-up to facedown.
• Beth - Look at a card and move it. Look at any Influence card (facedown or face-up) and move it next to the clone of your choice, if you wish.
• Rachel - Lock a card. Lock any Influence card by turning it sideways. A locked card cannot be looked at until it is resolved.
• Cosima - Look at 2 cards. Look at, then return any two Influence cards without showing anyone.
• Charlotte - Next player plays face-up. The next player must play their Influence card face up.

Clone Abilities

• Helena - Look at one card and remove it if you wish. Look at one Influence card and then either discard it (face-up) or put it back.
• Tony - Look at a card and show to any player. Look at an Influence card then show it to the player of your choice.
• Krystal - Play an Influence card face-up (does not activate that clone). Play an Influence card face-up on any clone other than Krystal.

Character Influence Abilities

• Fee - Distract: Look at a card. Switch it with one from your hand - or not. You do not have to tell players whether you switched the card or not. You may take the card you are looking at into your hand, then return any card you like to the spot you removed it from.
• Donnie - Monitor: Give to target player. On target's turn, target must show you which card they are playing, then discard this card.
• Art - Investigate: Look at one Accusation card. This may be an Accusation card that someone played on you or on someone else. Don't show it to anyone else and replace it where you got it from.

Character Influence Abilities

• Paul - Protect: Play face-up on one side of a clone. Cards on the side with Paul cannot be moved. (Paul does not count as a card towards resolving a clone.) This card doesn't count as a card towards the 6 cards needed to resolve a clone.
• Delphine - Spy: Look at an opponent's hand and take one card. That player will not be able to fill back up to 3 cards until the end of their next turn.
• Dr. Leekie - Copy: The card you place facedown this turn can activate any clone's ability. The clone you activate must be one that is currently active. So you could play your card next to Rachel, but activate Krystal instead - assuming Krystal was currently in play.
• Mrs. S - Hide: Play on a clone - Increase the threshold by one for this clone. If the threshold was 2, then it would be at 3 after Mrs. S is played. This card doesn't count as a card towards the 6 cards needed to resolve a clone.
• Mark - Brainwash: Next player must play on the same clone as you (on either side). If the clone you played on was resolved on your turn, then the next player is free to play anywhere.