The Con Game: Quick Rules

last updated Mon May 17 23:55:14 PDT 1999

• Place a Game on the production track and redraw
• Advance a Game on the production track
• Place a Game on the market after paying production cost:
  • High: $1,000 x base cost
  • Medium: $500 x base cost
  • Cheesy: $300 x base cost
  • Note that publishing a supplement has the side effect of raising the original game's popularity by 1.
• Ask players for advertising (when placing a magazine into production)

  Magazine Quality	Popularity Bonus	Cost
  High	+2	$4,000
  High	+1	$2,000
  Medium	+2	$2,000
  Medium	+1	$1,000
  Cheesy	+2	$1,000
  Cheesy	+1	$500

  Bonuses occur on first turn after the magazine is published. There is an extra +1 if the magazine popularity is more than the base price during the buyer's turn or a -1 if the magazine is below the base price.
• Play a card and redraw
• Discard a card and redraw
• Make a deal with another player (1 minute)
• Attend a convention (summer only)
  1. All attending players vote where con will be held. Richest player gets 2 votes and decides ties, poorest none. A region needs at least a distributor number of 4 to hold a con.
  2. Each attendee (owner or employee) spends $500 per region traversed to reach the con. (Oceans count as 2 regions.) Minimum cost is $500.
  3. A company can bring 3 products to the con. Each additional employee can bring one more product.
  4. Each attendee may:
     1. Do one of the following:
        • Spend $1,000 and double income, make 2 rolls, and play/redraw 1 more card
        • Spend $2,000 and triple income, make 3 rolls, and play/redraw 2 more cards
        • Spend $4,000 and quadruple income, make 4 rolls, and play/redraw 3 more cards
     2. This extra spending is done by players going around the table until everyone passes. At the end, whoever has spent the most total amount on the con receives the following:
        • either +1 to their distributor rolls or make someone else have -1 to their rolls
        • decides whether they want to go first or last in the following:
     3. Roll for a new distributor.
     4. Play and redraw a card.
     5. Collect income after all rolls and card plays are done: receive popularity of your con products multiplied by $100
• Recruit Distributor (only once in a region per turn)
  1. The number in the region shows how many distributors it can support.
  2. calculate how many levels your best game differs from average
  3. calculate how many levels your worst game differs from average
  4. add these numbers together, divide by 2 and add this to the die roll
  5. add 1 if it is your home region
  6. subtract 1 if it is in a different country
  7. subtract 3 if non-English speaking country
  8. Roll 1 die: a 1 always fails, a 6 always succeeds
• Pull a Game off the production track or market