The Commons (Print and Play)

Aiden Bieber 

Walker McDonald 

The Commons

A tragic game for 2-6 players about cooperation and betrayal. 

Objective:

For the majority of player’s to survive until round 7, in which case everyone wins. 

OR 

To be the last player remaining, in which case only you win. 

Note: At any point throughout the game, the symbol # refers to the number of players. 

Materials 

- The printed deck of cards found on the following page (to be printed 3 times) 

- 12 x # tokens of any kind (optionally printed from the third page) 

Setup 

1. Place 5 x # resources in the shared pool 

2. Shuffle the deck and deal 2 cards to each player 

Gameplay 

1. Each player takes a turn, starting clockwise from the player to the dealer’s left. Each round the order reverses. Each player: 

1.1. Draws a card 

1.2. Plays at least one card from their hand 

1.2.1. Cards with an ! in the top-right corner must be played on the first turn possible 

1.3. Takes up to 3 resources from the resource pile 

2. At the end of the round, each player must discard X resources where X is the round number divided by 2 (rounded up) 

2.1. If a player is unable to pay this cost, they are eliminated from the game (they can still win if the majority of players reach round 7) 

3. The shared resource then replenishes by 3x #