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villager[tip] [green]This tutorial is best experienced on a full screen desktop browser at 1080p[/green] In Welcome To, players are American architects in the 50s during the Baby Boom. But beware of the competition! Who will best accomplish the city’s plans by creating the nicest [red]housing estates[/red] in the three streets they’ve been assigned? Will your luxurious [green]parks[/green] and fancy [blue]pools[/blue] be enough to earn you title of Best Architect?1pagemaintitletext

villagerWelcome To is a game where everyone plays at the same time with the same cards. It’s all about cleverly combining the [red]house numbers[/red] with their associated [green]effects[/green] in order to become the greatest architect of tomorrow! [img]https://x.boardgamearena.net/data/tutorials/img6785ec1a2c5ab3.35907085.jpg[/img]2construction-card-62

villagerThis is your growing town, made up of homes.31684537_cityname

villagerThere are 3 streets dividing up all your homes. Your role as the Architect, is to assign each [red]*EMPTY*[/red] house a [red]UNIQUE[/red] house number. *House numbers must be in ASCENDING order in each street.*41684537_house_0_1

villagerOn the left are 3 pairs of construction cards, randomly flipped to show a House Number, and an *optional* effect.5construction-card-52

villagerHouse Numbers are from 1 to 15. [tip] It will be helpful to remember the distribution of house numbers. There are 81 cards, distributed as: [img]https://x.boardgamearena.net/data/tutorials/img6785ec1a5c5570.34860908.jpg[/img]6construction-card-39

villagerIn this tutorial, as House Number 2 is on the rare end of the curve, I recommend selecting this particular pair of Construction Cards. Also hover over the purple "Real Estate Agent" effect card to read its purpose. Will explain that soon.7construction-card-52

villagerNow click here to scribble down House Number 2. !!! NOTE: you can only assign house numbers to empty houses in ascending order. !!! Also note, that House Numbers CANNOT REPEAT in the SAME street. BGA will automatically highlight the legit spaces. 81684537_house_2_1

villagerthe OPTIONAL effect you chose lets you increase the value of "COMPLETED HOUSING ESTATES". So what exactly is that? :)11684537_score-estate_2_0

villagerIt's not complicated.. but needs a couple of concepts to understand. A "Completed Estate" = group of "Fenced Houses". So what is a Fence? :)2archivecontrol_editmode_centercomment

villagerThis is a FENCE. When resolving the *optional* FENCE effect, you can draw a line between 1 or more Houses. A group of CONTIGUOUS FILLED HOUSE NUMBERS, in one of your streets, is an ESTATE.3construction-card-62

villagerThe concept of COMPLETED HOUSING ESTATES is also used when looking at the currently available CITY PLANS. A City Plan presents a goal set by the City to its architects, as in building a certain number of housing estates with mandated sizes. Hover over the plans to see the requirements.4plan-card-9-validation

villagerI will talk more about how City Plans are scored at the end of the tutorial, but for now, take note that the game offers 3 common City Plans for all the architects competing. As an example, the first player to complete THREE "Size 3" estates will score an additional 8 points.5plan-card-2-0

villagerLooks like the Estate Size of 3 is quite popular.. so let's increase the value of that Estate. Click here to increase the scoring value of a "Size 3 Estate" from the default of 3 points to 4 points.61684537_score-estate_2_0

villagerYou have now increased the scoring value of your "Size 3" estates from 3 to 4. (ie the next unscratched value in this column).71684537_score-estate_2_1

villagerRemember, Welcome To.. is a simultaneous action game. All other players are making similar decisions with the 3 pairs of flipped Construction Cards. As soon as everyone is done CONFIRMing their turn, the game will flip a fresh set of construction cards, and we repeat the thought process.8gameaction_status

villagerYou always have the option to click "Restart Turn" if you want to UNDO your current move, and rewrite your House Number and Effect choices. For now, click Continue to Confirm your choices and move to the next flip.9gameaction_status

villagerWe talked about the Fence card before. It's conveniently also paired with House Number 6. Let's select this pair.1construction-card-4

villagerClick here to scrawl down House Number 6. Notice that I can leave gaps when numbering houses, as long as I follow other placement rules, ie: 1) Unique house number on a street 2) Ascending order from left to right21684537_house_2_5

villager[img]https://x.boardgamearena.net/data/tutorials/img6785ec1a8521e5.47778082.jpg[/img]11684537_house_2_5

villagerNow let's get Architecting, and draw some fences to make some Estates. Remember our goal to make "Size 3" Estates? Let's draw a fence line here. [tip] Fence lines can be drawn anywhere in your town.. not necessarily next to the house number that you picked this turn. 21684537_estate-fence_2_2

villagerThat was easy right? Now pray that you get House Numbers 1 and something between 2 and 6 to complete the "Size 3" estate in future flips. :) [tip] *Every street comes with 2 PERMANENT boundary fences on the extreme left and right houses.* By drawing this specific fence on the right, you automatically demarcated a Size-3 estate!11684537_top-fence_2_3

villagerNew flips.. new house numbers and effects to choose from. Hmm.. all Fences. In hindsight, not the best choice, but select the House Number 7 pair.1construction-card-72

villagerAnd let's scrawl our House Number 7 here, in ascending order of the 6..11684537_house_2_6

villagerand draw another fence here to mark off another "Size 3 estate"..11684537_estate-fence_2_5

villagerOh look.. we need a House Number 1. And its conveniently paired with the effect to increase the estate size points. Let's take that. 1construction-card-65

villager...and scrawl down House Number 1 here...21684537_house_2_0

villager...and let's increase the Size 3 Estate scoring now to 5 per completed estate.11684537_score-estate_2_1

villagerremember, you can always change your mind... but let's continue for now..2pagemaintitletext

villagerWe need the House Number 5 to neatly come before the 6 in street#3.. And it's paired with a new Effect card.. the Landscaper.1construction-card-43

villagerThe Landscaper effect card allows the player to build a PARK. Every nice neighborhood with expensive Estates needs Parks.. the more the better.. and the more you score as the Architect. Let's take it.2construction-card-43

villager.. and scrawl down House Number 5 here.. following all the placement rules...31684537_house_2_4

villagerAnd now build your fancy park! The player crosses off one of the trees at the end of the street. !!! Parks must be crossed off on the same street that the house number is written. !!! Parks are crossed off, left to right, in ascending order.41684537_park_2_0

villagerAlternatively, you can also click this button here to Build Park. Note, effects are optional.. so you can Pass.. but why you would you skip making a park?! Get them points!!5btnBuildPark

villagerThe next open spot shows the number of points that Parks are scoring on this street. Notice all 3 streets have their own Park scoring circles.61684537_park_2_1

villagerBGA immediately scores your Parks too.. and shows your current points from all your features in the player sheet at the bottom.71684537_score_park-2

villagerYour current score, along with other players scores, are also shown here on the right side. The number next to the gold star is your Points.. right now a low 2 for your Park. 8player_score_1684537

villagerClick here to see the detailed score card for ALL PLAYERS.9show-overview

villagerThis shows the number of houses marked with House Numbers.10houses-status-container-90439424

villagerAnd this shows the number of Building Permit Refusals so far for each player. Anytime any player is unable to assign a House Number to any house, their Build Permit Refusal increases by 1. !!! [red]Keep a close eye on this counter. If it reaches 3, it not only gives -5 points for that player, but it also triggers the end of the game.[/red]11refusal-status-container-90439424

villagerOn your player sheet, Building Permit Refusals are tracked here. You are allowed one mistake before you start taking negative points.. -3 if you have two mistakes, and -5 + end of game when you hit 3.121684537_permit-refusal_0

villagerObviously right now you have ZERO negative points so far, as you have managed to assign all flipped House Numbers.131684537_score_bis-total

villagerGoing to let the tutorial replay run at full speed now, until we reach a significant point..1pagemaintitletext

villager2 new effect cards on offer here... Let's look at the Pool Manufacturer... It allows a player to score points when building houses that have a planned pool. 1construction-card-73

villagerThis is an empty house with a planned pool.21684537_pool_1_3

villagerRemember, effects are optional? Well.. so are Pools.. as in real life, we can't all afford them :) So when assigning House Numbers, you can choose a house with a pool in it.. and just not build the pool. For example, our Houses 2 and 7 "could" have a pool, but we didn't have that effect then.. 31684537_pool_2_6

villagerOR, when you choose to construct the House Number paired with the Pool Manufacturer effect, you can also BUILD a sweet pool, and start a pool party!! Plus rack up some points too... Let's select these cards..4construction-card-73

villagerAnd let's make House Number 10 with a pool here.. 11684537_house_1_3

villagerand now click here to build the pool11684537_pool_1_3

villageror click the button here..2btnBuildPool

villagerNotice BGA has automatically scratched off a position in the Pool scoring tracker. 3scribble-35

villagerYou have added 3 more points to your score by building your FIRST pool.. every subsequent pool that you build gives you additional points.41684537_score_pool-total

villagerTime to look at a new effect card.. the Temp Agency. This effect allows the player to add or subtract 1 or 2 to the house number they are building. The Temp Agency allows the player to write numbers from 0 to 17. Let's select this.. 1construction-card-68

villager..and reduce the value of House Number 8.. to either 7 or 6. ..or increase it to 9 or 10. Let's make it a 6 and scrawl it here. 11684537_house_1_2

villagerBGA auto-magically scratches off one of the Temp Agency spaces here.. you have essentially hired a new temp worker. The more temp workers you hire.. the better your score. At the end of the game, the player with the most (or tied for most) gets 7 points.. next highest is 3.. and then finally 1.2scribble-57

villagerSo obviously, use the effect wisely, and get those hard to fit House Numbers.. My reasoning was to quickly start completing a Size-6 Estate, that I can use to complete the 2nd City Plan on offer.3plan-card-9

villagerFinally, i have completed the second CITY PLAN, which has the tough requirement for completing a Size 3 + Size 6 estate. Let's select it..1plan-card-9

villagerBGA now auto-highlights all ELIGIBLE + COMPLETED Estates that can be used to accomplish the City Plan. !!! Once an estate has been used for a specific City Plan objective, it CANNOT be reused to complete a different City Plan Let's select one of the Size-6 and another Size-3 Estate..1plan-card-9

villagerBGA marks the City Plan as Complete..1scribble-plan-9

villager..you were awarded 8 points as you were the First player to complete this plan..21684537_score_plan-1

villagerOther players that complete this City Plan will get the *lower* second number shown here, ie 4 points. NOTE: - A player can only score each City Plan once. - To fulfill these City Plans, the player must complete [red]all of the required housing estates[/red] - The estates do not have to be in the same street. [green]There is no restriction to the location of a Plan’s estates.[/green]3archivecontrol_editmode_centercomment

villagerBGA also draws a red border on the top of the Estates used to complete a City Plan, indicating that these cannot be reused to accomplish a different City Plan on a future turn.. 4scribble-82

villagerAt this point, you also get the glorious benefit of reshuffling the Construction Card deck.. maybe you will get those other House Numbers you need now.. but so will others.. 5btnReshuffle

villagerWhen the deck is exhausted, they are auto-shuffled.. right now 12 remain.. but let's go ahead and shuffle them..6cards-count-status

villageralmost at the end of the tutorial (yes i know, it's a long one :) ) One last Effect card to talk about.. the BIS card. Even though it has shown up in previous flips, one doesn't usually select it. Why? [red]Because its benefit comes with negative points![/red] 1construction-card-13

villagerWhy is it called BIS? It's Latin for "Twice", and is used in France to denote duplexes / row houses that share the same house number (a nod to the developers roots). It allows the player to *duplicate a house number on any street.* The *new house must be directly adjacent, to the left or right of the house with the same number.* *Duplicate houses can never be separated by fences.*2construction-card-13

villagerEvery time you use the BIS effect to duplicate a difficult house number, BGA tracks your negative points here. The more you use it, the more the negative points added from the next unused slot.31684537_score-bis_0

villagerAnd now you know everything you need to know to enjoy a fun game of Welcome To! Congratulations on making it this far. I will leave you with a quick summary of the Game Ending conditions.. 1) If you accumulate 3 Build Permit Refusals (tracked here for you)..41684537_permit-refusal_0

villager2) A player achieves all three City Plans (tracked here for each player) Here, Orange player has completed the 2nd City Plan too5plan-status-1-90767346

villager3) A player has built all of the houses on their streets. (tracked here by this number) Here, Green player has assigned 15 House Numbers out of total 33 spots.6houses-built-status-90439424

villagerSee you at the next table of Welcome To! May the best architect win! :) P.S. You will get to rate this tutorial in the next popup. If you feel it can be made better, can you please share your feedback with Villager? Feel free to directly message me with your comments.7archivecontrol_editmode_centercomment

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