Learn How to Play Castles of Mad King Ludwig Board Game in Just 3 Minutes

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How do you play Castles of Mad King Ludwig? This video walks you through a broad overview of the game. Note that it does not cover all of the game's rules, which you can find in the rulebook. To subscribe and see more of these videos, visit youtube.com/clevermovegames. To see more of our board games coverage in general, visit clevermovegames.com. This video was created on contract for Bezier Games. Full script: Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a castle-building game for one to four players. It takes about 90 minutes. To start, set up the central board. Use the four-player side for a four-player game, and the 2-3 player side for two and three-player games. Shuffle each stack of room tiles and place them on the matching spaces. In a four player game, you will use all of these tiles. In games with fewer players, remove some of the tiles as instructed by the rule book. Shuffle the room cards and count out 11 cards for each player. Place these on the corresponding space on the central board. Shuffle the favor tiles and draw one randomly for each player. Place these face up on the contract board. Draw and reveal room cards according to the number of players and place the tiles along the bottom of the contract board. Once the board is set up, each player takes 15,000 marks, chooses a color and draws three bonus cards. They return one bonus card to the bottom of the deck and keep the other two. Now, the game is ready to begin. On a player’s action, they can do one of two things: they can pass their action and take 5,000 marks or they can buy a new tile for their castle. Each time a player buys a room, hallway or set of stairs they take any money on the tile and pay the total cost to the player with the master builder token. Then, they place the tile in their castle. Each new tile must connect through an open doorway. The new tile can border another tile, but cannot overlap one. Each new room may affect a player’s score in two ways. The room grants players instant points as shown in the tile’s upper left corner. Many rooms also grant conditional bonuses or penalties as shown by the symbols in the middle of the tile. Properly placed, a new room may complete one or more rooms. A room is complete when all of its doors connect to other doors. When completed, each type of room grants a player a reward as shown by the player reference sheets. At the end of the turn, place a 1,000 mark coin on each room that remains and pass the master builder token to the left. The master builder starts the next turn by turning over room cards to replace each tile bought. Then, the master builder arranges the rooms in any order. The game ends after the turn when the master builder reveals the last room card. Once all players take their action on the last turn, they enter the end game scoring phase. During this phase, players gain additional victory points according to bonus cards, empty tile stacks, money and favors. The player who did best on each favor gains eight points. The player that did second best gets four points and so on. In the case of a tie, all players tying add up the points and divide them equally. Each room in a player’s castle from a depleted stack is worth two bonus points, and each 10,000 marks a player has at the end of the game is worth one additional point. The player with the most points, wins.