Game ends after 5 rounds.

Actions:

• Once per turn, place some your dice on an action space, one die per square.
• Typically, the lowest value die you place indicates how many times you may take the action, or how much you get.
• You may place dice on any unoccupied action space.
• You may place dice on an occupied blue action space by paying as many coins as the die value of the lowest die you place.
• You may not place dice on an occupied blue space that already holds your colour of dice.
• You may not place dice on a brown occupied space.

Bonus actions:

• Take 3 coins using a die (value does not matter)
• Buy a black die (only once per turn) for 3 camels
• Bump a die +1/-1 for 2 camels
• Re-roll a die for 1 camel
• Fulfill a contract by returning the required goods

Extra end of game points:

• 1 VP for every 10 coins left over
• 7 VP to player with most contracts
• Score VP from Beijing, depends on position in Beijing
• Score 1 VP for every 2 resources if you have a trading post in Beijing

Expert variant:

• Distribution of City Bonuses: Randomized
• Distribution of Characters: Randomly shuffle playercount +1, choose one, starting from last player.
• Distribution of Goal Cards: Deal 4 choose 2 to keep.