In this expansion, the Pass action is replaced with the Play an Action Card option.
There are several Action Cards available:
- Discard a bull card
- Discard a china card from the general display
- Draw a money card
- Exchange a china card you own with a china card from the general display
- Replace all bull cards with new ones
- Make the player to your right play
Play with the basic rules with the following additions.
Additional material:
14 action cards (6 sorts)
Preparation:
The pass cards are not needed, remove them from the game.
Shuffle the new action cards.
Each player gets two and keeps them secret from the others.
Make a draw pile from the rest.
Game play:
On each player’s turn, they may either:
Buy a china card
or
Take a bull card
or
Play an action card
Play an action card:
The player plays an action card (=> discard pile) and fulfills the action, if he likes.
Then the next player has his turn.
Action card pile exhausted:
Shuffle the discard pile and build a new draw pile.
Loose more than one china card:
The player gets the money card as usual and an additional action card from the draw pile, if available.