Renegade Game Studios Ex Libris Board Game: Strategy Worker Placement for Family Game Night Ages 10+

- Choose Your Librarian: Select from twelve unique librarians to lead your library collection quest, each offering distinct strategic possibilities and playstyles for personalized gameplay experiences- Strategic Worker Placement: Command your assistants to find rare books and manage resources using a rotating action space mechanic that rewards clever planning and tactical decision-making- Alphabetical Organization Wins: Score points by alphabetizing your collection while balancing shelf stability, prominent works, and variety?just like the Mayor's Official Inspector judges your library- Flexible Group Play: Enjoy engaging gameplay with one to four players aged ten and up in approximately forty-five minutes, perfect for family game nights or adult strategy game sessions- Quality Game Components: Receive a folding town board, double-sided dry-erase inspection form, twelve library tiles, eighteen location tiles, one hundred fifty-two unique book cards, and specialized meeples for immersive fantasy library building

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Ex Libris

Be the Best Librarian

How to Play

Choose Your Custom Meeple

The Mayor has just announced a new seat in the Village Council, Grand Librarian. The prestigious and lucrative position will be awarded to the citizen with the most extraordinary library.

You’ll need to expand your personal library by sending your trusty assistants out into the village to find the most impressive tomes. Sources for the finest books are scarce, so you’ll need to beat your opponents to them.

There's a lot to Juggle if you want to become Grand Librarian. There are 510 unique books in the gamespread across 152 cards and divided into 6 categories.

Over a series of rounds Librarians will send out their assistants to gather books for their bookshelves. They will use action spaces to do this in hopes of acquiring the most prominent books with a large variety of subjects.

She will use her Official Inspection Form to grade your library on several criteria including alphabetical order, shelf stability, prominent works, and variety. And don’t think she’ll turn a blind eye to books the Council has banned.

Beginning each round, the 1st player will reveal one location tile per player to form the board. Then deal cards to the tiles that require them.

Sending as assistant to a location tile with an empty space, or on your personal library tile which is always available. The location tiles willeither have an immediate effect, or a delayed effect for when the round is over.

Once players have no more assistants to place, the locations get resolved in numerical order, if they have a delayed effect. Then all leftover cards are discarded from any location.

After all locations have been resolved, remove all but the lowest numerical board from play and move that lowest value to the town board. This tile is now available for each subsequent round. Check to see if any player triggers the final round.