When you complete any of the first three columns, you get to play one of your objective cards.

Playing that card might cover a symbol that tells you to draw another performer card or an end-game objective card, or might cover a symbol that reduces your income, movement, or circus’s entertainment value (pedestals). You have three open rows of five slots apiece on your board when the game begins, so when you wish to hire a performer, you first decide in which row you’ll place that performer card, and then you pay the value of that card minus the value of the highest-valued card already in that row-or zero, if the answer to that is negative. Money cards have values from one to five and can either be played as performers or used to pay for other cards. Every performer card has a value from one to 16 that indicates its cost.

Turns are very simple in 3 Ring Circus -you either hire a performer from your hand or you move your caravan to put on a show in a new town or city. When B&B completes one circuit of the map, the game ends and players count up their points, gaining from their objective cards, performer cards’ straight point values, and some performer cards that offer variable returns based on what else is on your board. All the while, the great menace, Barnum & Bailey, makes its way around the map, and when they hit one of the big cities, there’s a scoring based on who has the most big-top circus tokens placed in that city’s region. The idea in 3 Ring Circus is pretty simple: You’re running a small circus in the northeastern United States in the early 1900s, traveling through small towns, medium-sized cities, and large cities, putting on shows and hiring new performers or buying new animals so future shows can be more profitable.

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