Nantucket

In Nantucket, money is everything. Buildings, ships, and resources are all represented by the coins, so deciding where and how to use your money is the heart of the game.

Players have just a single action each round, and there are only 3 basic actions are available at the start: launch a ship, build a building, or collect silver.

Launch a ship by placing a stack of coins by the board. The more coins you stack, the more chances you’ll have to whale. Or build a building by paying the building’s cost, then placing one of those coins to mark its ownership (heads or tails). Buildings add actions and earn points for their owners. To do either of these, you need money, and while silver is easy to collect, copper coins are harder to come by.

At the end of each round, players toss the coins on their ships and catch whales according to the results. More heads means better whales. Better whales yield copper coins that are worth points. But you can fill your ship with copper instead to catch even better whales, or use them to build more quickly.

The game ends when the entire town has been built, or when you deplete the copper coins from the supply. Then most points from buildings and copper coins wins!