I often make rule summaries for games that I own or games that I want to play. It is a form of taking notes when I read game rules. It helps me get a grasp of the rules while reading, and when I sit down to play a game, the reference sheet also helps as a reminder. I use these reference sheets to teach games too. I always try to keep the rules to one A4 page, preferably even just half a page.
Over the years I have accumulated quite a number of reference sheets. I upload them to www.boardgamegeek.com once in a while, in batches. I want to make it available here at my blog too. This post will be where I keep the latest version of my reference sheets.
Download v17 (released 29 Sep 2012) here.
If you come across any error please drop a comment here.
List of games:
- 10 Days in Asia
- 1960: The Making of the President
- 1989: Dawn of Freedom
- 51st State
- 7 Ages
- 7 Wonders
- A Game of Thrones
- A Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings
- A la Carte
- Acquire
- Africa
- Age of Empires III
- Age of Steam (2nd edition)
- Agricola
- Airlines Europe
- Airships
- Aladdin’s Dragons Card Game
- Antiquity
- Aquaretto
- Ark
- Around the world in 80 days
- At the Gates of Loyang
- Automobile
- Axis & Allies: Battle of the Bulge
- Axis & Allies: Guadalcanal
- Axis & Allies Europe 1940
- Axis & Allies Global 1940
- Axis & Allies Pacific 1940
- Babel
- Barbarossa
- Beowulf
- Blue Moon
- Bohnanza
- Bonnie and Clyde (Mystery Rummy)
- Bootleggers
- Bottle Imp
- Brass & 2P variant
- Britannia
- Campaign Manager 2008
- Carcassonne Discovery
- Carcassonne The City
- Carson City
- Cash a Catch
- Cavum
- Caylus
- Caylus Magna Carta
- Chaos in the Old World
- Chateau Roquefort
- Chicago Express (correction)
- Chinatown
- Citadels
- ColorMonsters
- Colosseum
- Commands and Colors Napoleonics
- Coney Island (correction)
- Confetti
- Confucius
- Container
- Corporation
- Cosmic Encounter
- Crusader Rex (rules v1.4)
- Cuba
- De Vulgari Eloquentia
- Die Dolmengotter
- Die Macher
- Dixit
- Domaine
- Dominant Species
- Dominant Species: The Card Game
- Dominion
- Downfall of Pompeii
- Dschunke
- Dune (Descartes edition)
- Dungeon Lords
- Dungeon Petz
- Eastern Front 2
- El Capitan
- Elfenland
- Endeavor
- Evolution
- Evolution: Time To Fly
- Famiglia
- Fast Flowing Forest Fellers
- Fauna
- Fearsome Floors
- Felix: the cat in the sack
- Fluch die Mumie
- First Train to Nuremberg
- Formula De
- Frank’s Zoo
- Fresh Fish
- Funny Friends
- Galaxy Trucker
- Ghost Stories
- Giants
- Goa
- Great Fire of London 1666
- Greed Incorporated
- Hammer of the Scots (rules v2.0)
- Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage
- Hansa
- Hansa Teutonica
- Hare and Tortoise
- Hollywood Blockbuster / Traumfabrik
- Homesteaders
- Ice Flow
- Ikusa / Samurai Swords / Shogun
- Illuminati
- In the Shadow of the Emperor
- In the Year of the Dragon
- Indonesia
- Inca Empire
- Incan Gold / Diamant
- Innovation
- Jab
- Java
- Kayanak
- Keltis
- Klunker
- Labyrinth: the War on Terror
- Le Havre
- Liberte
- Loco
- London
- Lord of the Rings
- Lord of the Rings: Battlefields
- Lord of the Rings: Friends & Foes
- Lord of the Rings: Sauron
- Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
- Louis XIV
- Macao
- Mamma Mia
- Mamma Mia Grande
- Manila
- Manoeuvre
- Maori
- Mare Nostrum
- Maria
- Medici
- Medici vs Strozzi
- Medina
- Metropolys
- Mexica
- Mondo
- Mordred
- Mykerinos
- Nature of the Beast
- Navegador
- Nefertiti
- Niagara
- Nightfall (rules v1.2 - up to Blood County expansion)
- Ninjato
- Norenberc
- Notre Dame
- O Zoo le Mio (Zoosim)
- Oltremare
- On the Underground
- Once Upon A Time
- Ora et Labora
- Pacific Typhoon
- Pacific Victory
- Pack & Stack
- Palazzo
- Paths of Glory
- Perikles
- Pick Picknic
- Planet Steam
- Poison
- Power Grid
- Power Grid: Factory Manager
- Power Grid: The First Sparks (correction)
- Power Struggle
- Puerto Rico
- Quo Vadis?
- R-Eco
- Race for the Galaxy
- Railways of the World
- Rommel in the Desert (corrections)
- Royal Turf
- Santiago
- Scotland Yard
- Sekigahara
- Settlers of Catan Card Game & 1st expansion
- Shinobi
- Shipyard
- Show Manager
- Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Snow Tails
- Sole Mio
- Space Alert
- Stone Age
- Strozzi
- Struggle of Empires
- Successors (3rd edition)
- Taj Mahal
- Tales of Arabian Nights
- Tempus
- That’s Life
- Thebes
- Thief of Baghdad
- Through the Desert
- Thurn and Taxis
- Ticket To Ride: Asia (corrections)
- Ticket To Ride Card Game
- Ticket To Ride series ref chart
- Tikal II
- Tinners’ Trail
- To Court The King
- Tobago
- Tongiaki
- Tournay
- Town Center
- Trias
- Tribune
- Twilight Struggle
- Um Reifenbreite
- Undermining
- Urban Sprawl (enhancement)
- Uruk – Wiege der Zivilisation
- Vanuatu
- Vinci
- Wallenstein
- Wars of the Roses
- Wasabi
- Waterloo
- Wilderness War (correction pending)
- Witch’s Brew
- Wizard
- Yspahan
- Zombie! Run for your lives!
- Zooloretto
9 comments:
Drat, was looking for 'Tigris and Eurphrates'. Although the official summary looks pretty good.
yup, the summary that comes with the game is quite good. the inside of the player shields also have good reference info.
Hiew, have you considered putting these up as a GitHub repository and letting people fork and submit pull requests? If the idea interests you, I can assist :)
Thanks Stephen. I have not heard of GitHub before. I just checked out their website to learn more.
At the moment I don't plan to switch to a collaborative mode in maintaining the ref sheets, mainly because I want to keep them in the current format and level of detail that I'm comfortable with. If anyone contacts me I'd happily share the original Powerpoint file and let him do whatever he wants, e.g. modifying the format, adding more details, removing details, basically fine-tuning the ref sheets to his own preference. (I'm not sure whether my PDF format file is editable)
What I would really appreciate is fellow gamers letting me know if they spot errors. For this I'm happy to use my BGG mail and the comments feature at this blog.
Anyhow, I thank you for the offer. I learned something new today. :-)
Came across an error in Chicago Express. Apparently there's a translation error in the English edition saying "If two dials at red, do dividend phase before player action", however player action happens first and once that is done, then the dividend phase.
More info at: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/740091/this-joke-isnt-funny-anymore
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll look into this and get it fixed soon.
Another thread regarding the Chicago Express issue I just posted about:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/367406/dividend-phase-pays-before-the-player-takes-his-ac
Seems some people say it does go dividened then action while others say it's poorly worded and wabash cannonball (the predecessor to CE) had the dividend phase go after the player action
I have read both threads. I have made the correction and submitted it to BGG. I'll include this correction to the master file the next time I update the master file. Thanks again for forwarding to me the links.
Thanks man! These reference sheets for A&A 1940 will come in handy.
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