The Ludarium · Teach sheet
Teach King of Tokyo in ten minutes
2 to 6 players · About 30 minutes · Ages 8 and up
The goal: Be the first Monster to reach 20 Victory Points, or be the last Monster standing.
On your turn
- Roll all 6 black dice. Keep any you like and reroll the rest, up to two more times.
- Resolve every die, in any order you like.
- Numbers: three of a kind scores that number. Each extra match adds 1.
- Energy: take 1 cube each. Heal: gain 1 Life each, but only outside Tokyo.
- Smash: in Tokyo, wound everyone outside. Outside, wound whoever is in Tokyo.
- Wounded by Smash while in Tokyo? You may Yield and leave. You still lose the Life.
- Enter Tokyo: if Tokyo is empty, you must move in.
- Buy face-up Power cards with Energy. You may also pay 2 to sweep all three. Pass the dice left.
Three tips for your first game
- Tokyo pays points but blocks healing. Yield before your Life runs low.
- Do not ignore Energy. Power cards are how Monsters pull ahead.
- Watch the leader. A Monster at 17 or more can win on one good turn.
Setup
- Each player picks a Monster, takes its board and figure, and sets Life to 10 and points to 0.
- Put the Tokyo board in the middle. With 2 to 4 players, use only Tokyo City.
- With 5 or 6 players, use both Tokyo City and Tokyo Bay.
- Shuffle the Power cards into a deck. Deal 3 face up beside the board.
- Make a pool of Energy cubes. Put the tokens nearby.
- Put the 6 black dice in the middle. Set the 2 green dice aside.
- Everyone rolls the black dice. Whoever rolls the most Smash results goes first. Play passes clockwise.
Scoring
- Three 1s: 1 point. Three 2s: 2 points. Three 3s: 3 points.
- Each extra die that matches a scoring set: 1 more point.
- Enter Tokyo: 1 point.
- Start your turn in Tokyo: 2 points.
- Some Power cards score points too. Read each one aloud when it is bought.
- Life never goes above 10 unless a Keep card says so. At 0 Life, your Monster is out.
Game end: The game ends at the end of a turn when a Monster has 20 points or only one Monster is left. You must survive your turn to win.