Tips & Strategy

Teach the cube choice and the cost of time first.

Teach the game

Start with the family’s life cycle. Take a coloured cube, choose whether to pay for its action, then show a black cube causing two time. Explain the chronicle before discussing long-term career scoring.

First game

Play the base game before adding all three major expansions. Keep the selected player-count setup card beside the green bag; it is the round’s cube recipe.

Planning

Choose generations as carefully as professions. A younger villager can preserve an endgame church or council position; an older one can secure a chronicle slot. Grain and coins support several systems, so check what you need before spending them at Market.

Host game

Rehearse a market with two sales: the initiator’s first sale avoids the entry surcharge, but the next one does not. Show that Mass buying happens before random draws. Use one spare villager to demonstrate a quill crossing, chronicle profession and full-category graveyard burial.

Sources

• Village Big Box — How to play with all expansions — Meeple University.
• Village: Big Box tutorial and review — Il Puzzillo del Sud.
• Publisher base rules and expansion rules.

Earlier editions can show different artwork or rules. Use the Big Box manuals for this guide.