Teach the Game

Snow Planner: teach the game.

How you win

“We run competing hotels beside a snowy mountain. Across eight rounds, train workers, welcome guests and improve the hotel. Earn the most points from the guests, cards, projects and goals.”

The dice are workers; do not roll them. Their faces show training, not luck. Build a hotel whose Windows support the guests you want to keep, then use their payments and your Window bonuses to fund stronger actions.

The boards

1. Slope and action spaces — place dice, taking the leftmost open space.
2. Guest deck — supplies the Station.
3. Station — six Guests waiting to check in.
4. Projects — turn resources into points and personal action spaces.
5. VIPs — window patterns unlock high-value guests.
6. Goals — only three become active across the whole table.
7. Summit — rewards and next round’s turn order.
8. Part-Time Die — one shared extra worker.

Your Hotel has three Guest Rooms, a 3×3 Window grid, a Promotion Track and a Worker Room. Your Talent’s left ability works immediately; its right ability needs its shown Window layout. Colors do not matter for that layout.

A round

1. Announcement: reveal the Round card. In round 5, reveal the Summit tiles.
2. Main: take turns placing one die and resolving its action. Skip players with no dice left.
3. Resolution: resolve the Round card revealed earlier.
4. Payment: receive each occupied room’s payment once. A completely empty hotel loses 3 points, down to a minimum of zero.
5. Bonus: collect each color’s Window bonus.
6. Check-out: meet stay conditions and advance Guests, or move them to Check-out.
7. Cleaning: check the end, refresh the Station, change turn order from the Summit and reclaim dice without changing their faces.

Read the full round sequence. A third worker unlocked at 8 points can act next round, not immediately.

How the game ends

Finish Cleaning in the 8th round. Add end-game Event effects, score active Goals for everyone, and gain 3 points for a full Window grid. Leftover resources have no automatic value. See scoring and ties.

[Season] New Season adds House/Score Track and Public Works scoring, with a 5-point full-grid bonus. [Co-op] New Challenge ends after six rounds and requires a shared victory.

Ways to score

What each resource is for

Resource or piece	Get it, then use it
Snow	Snow action and rewards; offset placement costs or pay cards. Each Snow offsets 2.
Croissants	Restaurant and rewards; pay 3 for an orange Window as a free action, or pay card costs.
Tickets	Ticket action and rewards; permanently train dice or offset placement costs by 1 per Ticket.
Likes	Advance Promotion for rewards on reached or crossed spaces.
Blue Windows	Repeated Snow income and guest stay requirements.
Orange Windows	Repeated Ticket income and guest stay requirements.
Green Windows	Repeated points and guest stay requirements.
Worker dice	Place them for actions; keep their trained values between rounds.
Guests	Put them into empty rooms at Day 1; collect income and retain them by meeting conditions.

Teaching tips

• Before the first placement, show a strength-4 die on a −2 space: it acts at 2. A Snow offsets the penalty, restoring 4; it cannot make that die act at 6.
• Show the difference between a Window color count for staying and a Window layout for a VIP, Goal or Talent.
• Read the Round card before choosing actions, but resolve it only after the Main Phase.
• Host game: ask each player to point to a Guest they can retain, then identify the action that funds that stay. Rehearse Payment → Bonus → Check-out without advancing cards early.