Your First Turn — Win the Presidency

Before you roll — campaign cards

You may play cards from your hand before rolling. Here's what each does:

October Surprise — initiate an auction for any non-swing state owned by another player (excluding their home state). Winner pays the current owner. If the owner wins, they pay the bank.
Recount — force a new auction for any state owned by an opponent, including swing states. Winner pays the current owner. If the owner wins, they pay the bank.
Debate — select any unclaimed state and begin a trivia debate. The winner claims the state.
Open State — put any unclaimed state up for auction right now. You pick which.
Veto — block a player who has initiated an auction for a state you own. Return the Veto card to the recycled campaign card pile. That's your whole turn. Pass the dice left.

Where you are

Your pawn starts on your home state. Every hex below is reachable within two moves.

Home state

Within 2 moves

Roll both dice

Always roll both dice first. After seeing both results pick one of three things: use the d8 result, use the d12 result, or ignore both and move your pawn 1–2 spaces to any unclaimed state and trigger an auction for it. Roll first, decide after.

d8 — outcome

tap to roll

d12 — letter

tap to roll

Tap each die above — roll both before choosing

$ Draw 2 dollar cards

Take any two cards from the face-down dollar deck. Values stay secret — opponents can only see how many cards you hold.

Denominations: $5M ×4 · $10M ×4 · $15M ×3 · $20M ×2 · $25M · $30M · $40M · $50M.

That's your whole turn. Pass the dice left.

🗳 Draw a campaign card

Take the top card from the campaign deck. Play it immediately or hold it — no hand limit.

That's your whole turn. Pass the dice left.

SS — Swing State auction

Choose any unclaimed swing state to contest. Swing states score 2× their electoral votes at game end.

How the auction works: You (the initiating player) answer one trivia question. A correct answer earns a bidding credit — Easy +$10M, Hard +$25M — applied to your bid only, not kept as cash. Then bidding opens to all players: $5M minimum, raises of $2.5M. Last bidder standing wins the state and pays the bank. If you triggered the auction but don't win, you collect $10M from the Stipend Bank.

Adjacency bonus: +$10M per state you already own that borders this one, up to $30M. Applies as a bidding credit only.

ST — Super Tuesday

The player who rolled Super Tuesday draws 3 cards blind from the unclaimed state deck and places them face-down on the board without looking. All players simultaneously write down their bids in secret. Bids are revealed at the same time — the highest bidder wins all 3 states and pays their bid to the bank.

States drawn:

Ties on the highest bid prompt new blind bids from the tied players only. Repeat until the tie is broken.

Letter auction

How the auction works: You (the initiating player) answer one trivia question. A correct answer earns a bidding credit — Easy +$10M, Hard +$25M — applied to your bid only. Then bidding opens: $5M minimum, $2.5M raises. Last bidder wins the state and pays the bank. If you triggered the auction but don't win, you collect $10M from the Stipend Bank.

Adjacency bonus: +$10M per state you already own bordering this one, up to $30M. Bidding credit only.

↗ Move pawn instead

You rolled but chose to ignore both dice. Move your pawn 1 or 2 hexes to any unclaimed state — an auction begins there immediately.

1 move away:

2 moves away:

Trivia phase first, then bidding — same as a regular auction.

End of turn

Place your color chip on any won state, return spent dollar cards to the bank face-down, discard played campaign cards face-up. Check whether this was the 36th state won — if yes, score now. If not, pass the dice left.

Scoring: state EVs + swing states ×2 + regional bonus (+15 EV for a connected 3-state block anchored to your home state, +10 per additional linked state) − 10 EV per opponent-held state bordering your home state.