RULE BOOK

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SET UP

Lay the 4 coloured room cards vertically to the left of the table. Lay the 4 white stage cards horizontally at the top of the table (see below). Essentially, you have created a grid - 4 rooms, with 3 stages and a Specialist Prep Area in each room.

Deal each player a number of (white) skill cards, referring to the table below. For a quick game (20 minutes), choose the ‘easy’ option. If you want a challenge, go for the hard option.

Number of Skill Cards

Number of Players Easy Medium Hard

2 7 6 5

3 7 6 5

4 6 5 4

5 6 5 4

6 5 4 3

OBJECT OF THE GAME

Hostiple is a tabletop card game for 2-6 players. Cure patients and receive gold star tokens from the minister of health. Be warned, if you happen to kill a patient, the minister will take those tokens back! The winner is the first player to have 10 tokens.

GAMEPLAY New patients are added to thetable at the start of each round.

The first player each round is called ‘The Consultant’. Determine which player starts by debating who would make the best doctor in real life. The person least likely starts.

The first player lays as many skill cards as they wish in order to try and cure patients. Attempting to cure a patient consists of laying skill cards and rolling dice. If the correct score is not rolled, the patient dies. Whether they are cured or killed, that patient is removed from the board. Once the player has played all the cards they wish, play moves on to the next player and so on.

Once all players have had a turn, determine if any outstanding patients on the board will die (see page 4). Then move all patients to the next stage of treatment.

For a full run-down of the round order, see back of manual.

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Good luckEveryone

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PATIENTS

There are 3 types of patient - Standard, Emergency and Specialist. They all share similar traits. Below are details for a standard patient.

Emergency patients and Specialist Cases have the same traits but their own rules (see page 8).

MOVNG PATIENTS

At the start of each round, draw new patients from the (black) patient deck and add them into their corresponding rooms in stage one. The number you add is DOUBLE the amount of people playing.

Example In this game there are 3 players. So 6 cards are drawn from the patient deck. 2 are for the Pharmacy, 2 for the Operating Theatre, 1 for the Clinic and 1 for Casualty.

At the end of each round. Any patients still on the board are moved to the next stage of treatment. So all patients in stage 1 move to stage 2. Stage 2 patients move to stage 3 etc. Stage 1 should then be clear for new patients to be added at the start of the next round. Patients move from stage to stage as each rounds progresses. Players need to cure patients before they reach stage 3. If a patient remains in stage 3 by the end of the round, the patient dies.

If a patient dies, ALL players LOSE 1 gold star token

Illness Name

Room Treated InWhen the patient is drawn, place the card in stage one of the designated room.

Skill TypeThis is indicates what type of treatment the patient requires (Surgery, Psychi-atry or Bedside Manner). Skill cards of the correct type must be used (see page 6)

Illness Description

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Cure ScoreThis is the minimum score you must roll on the dice to cure the patient (see page 6)

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WARNING! If the player fails to score the required value the patient dies. Whether a patient is cured or dies, the patient card is removed from the table.

GOLD STAR TOKENS

For every patient you successfully cure, you receive one gold star token for your fine work.

However, if you fail your cure roll and the patient dies, you will lose one gold star token.

If a standard patient has not been cured by the end of stage 3, the patient dies and all players lose a token.

Emergency patients and Specialist Cases have their own rules (see page 8)

INSTANT CURES

An Instant cure is every doctor’s dream. These really are as good as they sound. Each card has a choice of 3 illnesses which can be cured instantly without having to roll any dice.

MAKING CURE ROLLS

Each patient has a symbol and a number to represent how to cure them. The symbols dictate the correct skill required

To cure a patient you need to lay at least one skill card with the corresponding symbol on. You can lay more than one card to improve your odds of making the treatment successful. Each card grants you one die to roll. The score you need to roll is equal or greater than the patient’s cure value.

Example To cure Sleep Walking, a player needs to lay at least one Bedside Manner skill card and roll a 4 or more.

The player chooses to lay 2 bedside manner cards and can therefore roll 2 dice. They roll a 3 and a 2, so they have exceeded the 4 required and the patient is cured.

BEDSIDE MANNERBEDSIDE MANNER SURGERYSURGERY PSYCHOLOGYPSYCHOLOGY

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Example The players have collectively stored 6 psychiatry skill cards for the clinic. A specialist case of Tardis Syndrome is in stage 3 and requires a roll of 12 to cure. The players agree to use 4 cards and therefore roll 4 dice to cure the patient.

SPECIALIST SCORING

When a Specialist patient is cured ALL players receive 2 gold star tokens.

When a Specialist patient is killed ALL players LOSE 2 gold star tokens.

EMERGENCY PATIENTS

These troublesome patients require treatment within stage 1 only. If they are not cured during the first round that they appear, they will die and ALL players will lose 1 gold star token.

SPECIALIST CASES

These are insanely difficult to cure patients that require all players working together. As such, they have special rules and do not follow the same cure rules as standard and emergency patients.

Speciality cases cannot be cured during player’s turns. They always advance along each stage to stage 3. During their turns players can lay skill cards to the right of stage 3 for any room in the Specialist Prep Area. Think of this as preparing for potential cases.

At the end of the player’s turns, if there is a Specialist case in stage 3 of treatment, the players must decide between them how many reserved cards to use for that Specialist patient. Dice are rolled in the usual way and the cards used are removed.

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HELP CARDS

The skill deck contains a number of cards to help the player. Here is a summary.

Adrenaline Shot Lay this card behind any patient in the room indicated on the card and remove 2 from the required score when making a cure roll. Can be laid in advance.

Blame it on the other guy!If you kill a patient, nominate a player to receive a death token instead of you. (Does not apply to Specialist Cases)

CPR TrainingIf you kill a patient, lay this card to instantly re-roll your score.(Does not apply to Specialist Cases)

DefibrillatorLay this card next to stage 3 of any room. Re-roll any death rolls in this stage.

Equipment NeededDiscard card and choose 2 cards from the discard pile to replace it (surgery, psychiatry or bedside manner cards only.)

Extra Diagnosis

Lay this card behind any patient in the indicated

room and remove 5 from the required cure roll score.

Nurse

Lay this card next to any room. Decrease the cure

score required in that room by 1.

Specialist Care

Take any Stage 3 patient and send them back to

Stage 1. Simply move the card back two stages.

Stock Taking

Move up to three cards in the reserved area from one

room to another.

Sweep it Under the Rug

If you kill a patient, lay this card and you will not

receive a death token. (Standard patients only)

This Ones Yours

Nominate a player and any non-specialist patient.

Only that player can treat the patient.

WINNING THE GAMEThe game is won when a player receives their 10th gold star token. However, you may wish to keep playing. Hostiple can be played forever, you will just need to shuffle the discarded decks each time you run out of cards.

FIRST PLAYER TOKENThe first player each round is known as ‘The Consultant’ and changes in a clockwise rotation. Pass the consultant token to remember which player started each round.

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and changes in a clockwise rotation. Pass the consultant

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ROUND ORDER

The game is played over as many rounds as it takes to declare a winner. Each round, do the following...

1. Add new patients.

2. Player turns.

3. Resolve dying patients.

4. Resolve Specialist Cases

5. Replenish player cards.

6. Move remaining patients.

Add new patients to stage 1. The number you add is equal to DOUBLE the amount of people playing.

Each player has their turn. Players can lay as many cards and cure as many patients as they wish. Reward cures with gold star tokens. Punish deaths by removing tokens.

Remaining Emergency patients and any standard patients in stage 3 die immediately. All players lose 1 gold star token per death.

As a group, decide how many reserved skill cards to use on any Specialist cases in stage 3. Roll the same number of dice as cards used. If successful, ALL players receive 2 gold star tokens.If unsuccessful ALL players lose 2 tokens.

Each player receives new skill cards.

All patients move to the next stage