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THE ISLE OF CATS LATE ARRIVALS RULES
Your friends have finally arrived at the island, and with more people
exploring, new discoveries will be made!
COMPONENTS
40 CAT TILES
These should be added to the
discovery bag. They follow all
the normal rules for cat tiles.
10 RARE TREASURE TILES
These should be added to the
discovery bag. They follow
all the normal rules for rare
treasures.
1 OSHAX FIGURE
When playing with 6 players,
this should be used as the
6th player piece on the turn
order track on the island.
2 OSHAX TILES
These should be placed with
the other Oshax tiles in your
game.
16 COMMON TREASURE TILES
These should be placed with
the other common treasure
tiles in your game.
2 PLAYER BOATS
These should be placed with
the other player boats in your
game. They can be used by any
player in all your future plays.
10 DISCOVERY CARDS
These should be shuffled
with your existing discovery
cards when playing with 5 or
6 players.
20 FISH TOKENS
These should be placed with
the other fish tokens in your
game.
DISCOVERY CARDS
There are 70 new discovery cards included with the Late Arrivals expansion. You
should only use these cards when playing with 5 or 6 players, when playing with
1 - 4 players, you should remove them from the discovery deck.
LESSON MODULES
The 70 new discovery cards include 2 new lesson modules, even when playing
with 1 - 4 players, you can use these new lesson modules following the rules on
page 23 of the rulebook.
IDENTIFYING LATE ARRIVAL CARDS
All of the cards included with the Late
Arrivals expansion show the treasure
chest symbol in the bottom left corner.
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ADDITIONAL RULES FOR 5 AND 6 PLAYERS
When playing The Isle of Cats with 5 or 6 players, the game plays with the same
rules, but you will need to make a few changes to the number of tiles available.
GLOBAL SETUP
3 Common Treasure.
Use 13 of each tile for 5-player.
Use 15 of each tile for 6-player.
4 Oshax. Place 8 Oshax tiles below the common
treasure.
LESSON MODULES
When playing The Isle of Cats with 5 or 6 players you
will always use 5 Lesson Modules, rather than 3. When
adding new lesson modules to the game, follow the rules
on page 23 of the rulebook, but raise the number of lesson
modules from 3 to 5.
SOLO RULES
If playing The Isle of Cats solo with the Lesson module G,
you will need to take note of the following rule:
MOST TREASURES
For the lesson card "Blinded", you require 10 treasures to
complete the lesson.
FILL THE FIELDS
Cat Tiles.
20 cats (10 per field) for 5-player
24 cats (12 per field) for 6-player
OSHAX TILES
When playing The Isle of Cats with 5 or 6 players you will
always use 8 Oshax tiles, rather than 6. When adding new
Oshax tiles to the game, follow the rules on page 23 of the
rulebook, but raise the number of Oshax tiles in play from
6 to 8.
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