Circadia | How to Play | Learn to Play in 5 Minutes! | A Set Collection Card Games
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Hello everybody, my name is Olya.
name is Tyler.
Together we make up Card Grey, a couple that loves to play board games. And today we'll be teaching you how to play Circadia.
Circadia is a two-to-five player game designed by Hisashi Hayashi and is published by Synapses Games who helped sponsor this video. Let's go to the table and let's learn how to play.
As always, you'll begin by setting up. Shuffle the day and night cards together for each of the three different habitats and place the three decks face down to form a column. Reveal the top three cards from each deck to create the habitat rows. Next, shuffle all the spirit creature cards together to form the spirit creature deck. Reveal the top five cards and place them in a row beside the deck to create the display. Finally, deal five spirit creature cards to each player to form their starting hand. You may look at your cards, but keep them hidden from the other players. You're now ready to play. The youngest player will take the first turn. In Circadia, you're a guide of the dreaming paths, leading the winged bear of the wild forest, the rooted axolotl of the troubled water, and the cloud goose of the high mists back to their domains.
You'll play spirit creature cards into sets of identical creatures to claim habitat cards and earn balance points. Once a player has reached 15 balance points, the end game is triggered. Everyone else will take one final turn, then the player with the most balance points wins. This game is played over a series of turns, each consisting of three steps. Let's go over them. Step number one, play spirit creatures. First, you'll play at least one spirit creature card from your hand into either a new or existing set in your play area. You may play multiple cards of any creature type as long as every card you play shares the same value. Now, when adding cards to an existing set, they must match the set's creature type and each card must have a value equal to or greater than the last card in that set.
When starting a new set, you may use any spirit creature card from your hand. However, you'll often want to begin with a lower value card since every card added to that set later must be of an equal value or higher. You can have up to three sets of spirit creatures in your play area and you may even have multiple sets of the same creature type. If you already have three sets and cannot add to at least one of them, you must discard one entire set before starting a new one. You can also do this voluntarily. You're free to discard any number of sets during your turn to make room for new ones. Now on to step number two, claim habitats. Next, you may claim either a face-up habitat card from a habitat row or face-down top card of a habitat deck provided you have a qualifying set.
To qualify, one of your spirit creature sets must contain at least as many cards as the value shown at the bottom of the matching habitat card and you must have added at least one spirit creature card to that set this turn. When you claim a habitat card, discard the entire qualifying set, then place a habitat card in front of you to form a single line from left to right. Each new habitat card you claim is added to the end of this line. The first card you claim can either be a day card or night card or face-down card from the top of the deck. Every habitat card you collect after that must alternate between day and night. If you claim the face-down top card of a deck, you'll choose which side, day or night, it will represent to continue the sequence. You may also claim multiple habitat cards during the same turn as long as you can discard a qualifying set for each one. Afterward, refill any empty spaces in the habitat rows before moving on to the final step.
Step three, draw spirit creatures. Finally, draw a spirit creature cards from the display equal to the value of the card or cards you played during step one and add them to your hand. Then, refill the display back up to five cards. If the deck ever runs out, shuffle the discard pile to form a new deck. Now, there is a hand limit. If you ever have more than eight cards in your hand after drawing, discard cards until you're back down to eight. Play then passes to the next player. You continue taking turns until one player has reached 15 or more balance points. This will trigger the end of the game. At this point, all other players will take one final turn. After everyone has finished taking their turns, total the balance points shown on your habitat cards. The player with the most points wins. If there is a tie, the tied player with the highest value habitat card wins. If there's still a tie, compare the next highest habitat card and continue until a winner is determined.
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