Rusty on the Rules: board game rules refreshers

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Short audio reminders of how to play board games you've played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

  1. Episode 1

    Brass: Birmingham (2018) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into Brass: Birmingham in 10 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. You are trying to finish the Rail Era with the most victory points. You earn them by building industries and flipping them through selling or having their resources consumed, and by building canal and rail links into valuable parts of the board. 2018 · Roxley Games · 2–4 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/brass-birmingham Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    Brass: Birmingham (2018) Rules and Quiz

  2. Episode 2

    Ark Nova (2021) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into Ark Nova in 14 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. You win by having the most victory points, which come from adding your appeal to the conservation value your conservation counter has reached. You get there by building enclosures, filling them with animals for appeal, and supporting conservation projects for conservation points, with the two tracks running towards each other from opposite ends of the board. 2021 · Feuerland Spiele / Capstone Games · 1–4 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/ark-nova Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    Ark Nova (2021) Rules and Quiz

  3. Episode 3

    Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 in 9 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. You win a game by completing the objectives for the current month. The number of objectives required is printed on the board under that month, and any objective marked mandatory must be done. You do that together, as a team, by moving around the world treating disease cubes and collecting matching City cards to discover cures, while outbreaks and panic make the board steadily worse. 2015 · Z-Man Games · 2–4 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/pandemic-legacy-season-1 Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015) Rules and Quiz

  4. Episode 4

    Gloomhaven (Second Edition) (2025) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into Gloomhaven (Second Edition) in 10 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. You are a party of mercenaries working through a campaign of scenarios, and you win a scenario by achieving the goal printed in the scenario entry before your whole party is exhausted. You do that by playing two ability cards each round, managing a shrinking hand of cards as your real health bar. 2025 · Cephalofair Games · 2–4 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/gloomhaven-second-edition Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    Gloomhaven (Second Edition) (2025) Rules and Quiz

  5. Episode 5

    Dune: Imperium – Uprising (2023) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into Dune: Imperium – Uprising in 12 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. You are racing to ten victory points, which you earn mainly by winning Conflicts, climbing the four Faction influence tracks, and taking Alliances. You do it by playing cards from a deck you build as you go, using those cards to send Agents to board spaces. 2023 · 1–6 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/dune-imperium-uprising Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    Dune: Imperium – Uprising (2023) Rules and Quiz

  6. Episode 6

    Dune: Imperium (2020) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into Dune: Imperium in 10 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. You are trying to reach ten or more Victory Points before your rivals. You do that by building a deck of Imperium cards, sending Agents to board spaces to gather resources and Influence with the four Factions, and winning the Conflict each round with troops and swords. 2020 · Dire Wolf · 1–4 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/dune-imperium Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    Dune: Imperium (2020) Rules and Quiz

  7. Episode 7

    Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition (2017) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition in 10 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. You win by being the first to ten victory points, earned almost entirely by completing objectives. 2017 · Fantasy Flight Games · 3–6 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/twilight-imperium-fourth-edition Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition (2017) Rules and Quiz

  8. Episode 8

    War of the Ring: Second Edition (2011) Rules and Quiz

    Get back into War of the Ring: Second Edition in 11 minutes: a spoken refresher of the setup, how a turn goes, the rules people often forget, and how the game ends and is scored. Made for people who have played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. What you are trying to do is simple to state: the Free Peoples want to destroy the Ring in the Crack of Doom, or conquer enough Shadow strongholds, while the Shadow wants to corrupt the Ring bearers or overrun the cities and strongholds of the West. 2011 · Ares Games · 2–4 players The refresher in writing: rustyontherules.com/episodes/war-of-the-ring-second-edition Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

    War of the Ring: Second Edition (2011) Rules and Quiz
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Short audio reminders of how to play board games you've played before. Listen on the way to game night and start playing without opening the rulebook. Anyone can add a game: upload its rulebook PDF at rustyontherules.com and we write and record the episode.

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