AEG Wants You to Reconstruct Wallpaper, Bet on Horses, and Shake That City

In the game, a number of locations are available where wallpaper cards will come up for grabs. Each turn, players simultaneously choose a location, and if they're the only one to pick a location, they get the card or cards in that location. If you choose the same location as someone else, each of you receives a "hazy memory" card that features a wallpaper pattern along only one edge instead of along all four edges.

When you receive regular wallpaper cards, you must add them to your other played cards immediately, ideally matching the pattern halves to create a complete pattern. Patterns come in four colors, with each color having two sizes. A wild pattern is also available, which seems kind of weird, but so be it. To end a turn, deal a new wallpaper card to each location, which means that some locations will likely have more cards than other ones.


At game's end, use your hazy memory cards to complete patterns on the edge of your wallpaper, then score for each color of pattern. The score of a pattern is the number of large symbols of that color multiplied by the number of small symbols, so if you don't have at least one large and small symbol, you score nothing for that color!

Shake That City is played over 15 rounds. For each of the first twelve rounds, the active player shakes the Cube Shaker, then presses the slider to drop nine cubes in a 3 x 3 pattern. That player picks one of the building colors available from the pattern and places the corresponding building tile(s) on their player board in the same pattern as the cubes revealed by the shaker. The other players then pick any building color other than the one the active player picked, then place matching colored tiles in the matching pattern on their board. For the final three rounds, all players can pick whatever color/pattern they wish from the shaken cubes. What are you trying to do?

—Roads wants to connect to an edge of the board.
—Factories wants to be next to other factories and roads.
—Homes want to be placed in clusters that are as small as possible — the smallest being a single tile — so long as they're not next to a factory.
—Parks wants to be next to homes and factories.
—Shops score increasingly more the closer they are placed to the city center, but if they're not placed on an edge, they need to be adjacent to a road connected to the board's edge in order to score. Without road access, you'll have no products to sell!


At game's end, players earn points for tile-placement combinations and for the completed bonus point tiles around the edge of their board.