Siberia: The Card Game

Embark on a frosty and lucrative quest for resources in Siberia: The Card Game, a card-based version of Reiner Stockhausen's acclaimed Siberia! Here, the race to extract gas, charcoal, petroleum, diamonds, and gold from the vast Siberian wilderness continues, but in a more agile and strategic way. You take on the role of a resource tycoon, utilizing investors, salesmen, and workers to secure the most valuable goods. The game unfolds with eight resource cards on the table, the first three face-up, and the rule is clear: extract resources of the same type from left to right. Each player starts with one worker and five action cards in hand, each combining a resource and a worker type. On your turn, the first thing is to reveal a face-down resource card. Then, you have two crucial options: either pass, drawing two action cards (with a hand limit of eight), or play two action cards with the same symbol to perform a specific action – claim a character or extract resources – and then draw one card. Oh, and a clever trick: any two action cards can serve as a joker, provided you have at least one symbol of the appropriate type for the desired action. Characters are key to success: investors facilitate the extraction of specific resources, salesmen boost the value of resources or characters at the end of the game, and workers simply allow you to extract more resources. When extracting, you take one card from the resource row for each worker you have, replacing them with new face-down cards. The game ends when the last resource card is revealed, everyone takes their final turn, and scores are tallied: a thousand dollars per character and the printed value of each resource card (adjusted by salesmen). The player with the most money wins! And there's more: the five salesman cards from this game can be used as an expansion for the original Siberia board game.