Teach Brass: Birmingham in ten minutes

On your turn

1. Take 2 actions, discarding 1 card each. First Canal Era round: 1 action.
2. Build, Network, Develop, Sell, Loan, or Scout. Only Build needs a matching card.
3. Put all money you spend on your character tile, then refill to 8 cards.
4. Coal: closest connected mine, free. Otherwise the market, which needs a merchant connection.
5. Iron: any iron works, free, no connection. Otherwise the market.
6. Beer: your brewery anywhere, a rival's if connected, merchant beer only when selling there.
7. Round end: least spent goes first next round. Then collect income (not after the last round).

Setup

1. With 2 or 3 players, return cards and merchant tiles marked for more players.
2. Wild cards face up in their spaces; shuffle the rest into the draw deck.
3. Merchant tiles face up on spaces for your count; beer beside each non-blank tile.
4. Fill the coal market except one £1 space, and the iron market except both £1 spaces.
5. Each player takes a mat, £17, 14 links, 45 industry tiles, and a character tile.
6. VP marker on 0. Income marker on the 10 space, which is income level 0.
7. Deal 8 cards each, plus 1 face down to start each discard pile.
8. Shuffle the character tiles into a random turn order.

Scoring

• An era ends when hands run out: 8, 9, or 10 rounds for 4, 3, or 2 players.
• Each link scores 1 VP per link icon in its two locations.
• Flipped tiles show link icons, whoever owns them. Each merchant location shows 2.
• Then each flipped industry tile scores its VPs. Unflipped tiles score nothing.
• Links leave the board after scoring, in both eras.
• After the Canal Era: remove level 1 tiles, refill merchant beer, deal new hands.
• Level 2 and higher tiles stay and can score in both eras.

Game end: The game ends after Rail Era scoring. Most VPs wins; ties go to higher income, then more money.