The Gang: Tools of the Trade
The Gang: Tools of the Trade Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The Tools
Game materials: 10 tool cards
The rules of the base game apply with the following changes.
Shuffle the ten tool cards and deal one face down to each player. If there are fewer than ten players, place any remaining tool cards in the box. Keep your tool card secret until you use it.
You may only use your tool card once during the entire game, not once per heist! However, several tool cards may be used during the same heist. As soon as you have used your tool, return the tool card to the box.
The tools make the game easier for you, so we recommend playing without the specialist cards from the base game when using the tool cards. (Exception: you will need the specialist cards when using the Burner Phone tool.) We also recommend using the tool cards with the two extra gold bars.
Tool card: Night Vision Goggles
Anytime before the showdown: Reveal this card. Place one of your pocket cards face up in front of you so that everyone can see it. It still counts as one of your pocket cards.
Tool card: Smoke Grenade
When revealing your pocket cards during the showdown: Reveal this card. Change the suit of one or two of your pocket cards to a suit of your choice (spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs).
Tool card: Burner Phone
Immediately when you receive this card at the start of the game: Reveal this card. Draw two random specialist cards and keep them secret until you decide to use one of them during a heist. Then return both specialist cards to the box (you may only use one of the two cards).
Tool card: Lock Pick
When revealing your pocket cards during the showdown: Reveal this card. Change the value of one of your pocket cards by +1 or -1. You can also turn an A into a 2 or a 2 into an A. You may not create a "Five of a Kind" (e.g. 33333).
The Extra Vaults
Game materials: 5 vault cards, 2 additional gold bars
The rules of the base game apply with the following changes:
To win the game, you must win five instead of three gold bars.
Place the two additional gold bars on the vault space.
Shuffle the five vault cards and place them as a stack below the vault space.
If you are successful in a heist, move one of the gold bars from the vault area to one of the gold bar spaces to the left (the two pale gold bar spaces at the top are now also being used for the two additional gold bars). Also turn the top vault card of the stack to the gold side and place it next to the stack.
Printed text reads "to one of the gold bar spaces to to the left"; the repeated "to" is treated as a typesetting slip and omitted here.
If you reveal one of the two vault cards that has numbered chips pictured on it, the following extra rule applies for the next heist:
Turn all yellow or orange chips to the dark side, depending on which chips are shown on the card. These chips cannot change owners after they have been taken from the center of the table for the first time.