Wild West Way rules v1.

4 (edited on 2015, Oct 28th by David Cheng)

Wild West Way (WWW) is a free print & play card game for up to five players. Each player is a new comer to the town &
wants to build up his/her fame through different achievements. Before building up the fame, a player also needs to build up
his/her various skills like shooting, brawling, gambling or horse riding. The more skillful a player is the higher chance a player
can win over certain characters or buildings. The game ends after six rounds. When the game ends, the player with most fame
points wins & becomes the new mayor of the town.

COMPONENTS :
- one sheet of tokens
- 72 cards (9 location, 9 event, 5 player character, 18 town character, 1 coach, 23 item, 7 wanted cards)
- D6 dice x 10
- Five meeples (red, green, blue, black, white)
- 8mm cubes x 60 (12 cubes for each color)
- rule book
Game tokens
Skill tokens :

Fame token, Wanted token and Debt token :

Money tokens :

Player Character Cards & Coach Card

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Town Character Cards : 18 cards in total, 3 will be drawn & discarded in each round

Wanted Cards : 7 cards in total, 4 cards are drawn & placed on the table at start

Location Cards : the 9 location cards are placed on the table at start

Item Cards & Event cards: item cards are discarded once played.

Cubes & Meeples : cubes represent cowboys while the meeple represents the player character himself.

SET-UP :
1) Each player chooses a player character card, then takes a meeple & four cubes of corresponding color.
2) Each player gets $10.
3) Play a Rock/Paper/Scissor game to determine the first player. The first player takes the Coach card.
4) Shuffle the item cards & event cards separately. Each player draws two item cards.
5) Shuffle the 7 wanted cards & draw 4 to place them face up on the table as below. Put the remaining three facedown

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 as Wanted deck & place it next to the first wanted card. Place the Event deck next to the last wanted card.

6) Place the Saloon card to the next row below the first wanted card. Shuffle the town character cards to form a town
character deck face down. Place the deck to the left of the Saloon card. Draw three cards from the town character deck
& place them to the right of the Saloon card as below.

7) Place the Bank, Church & Sheriff’s Office cards to the next row as below.

8) Place the five remaining location cards to the last row as below: Place the item deck next to General Store.

9) Gather the money tokens to form the bank pool. Put the other tokens (skill/wanted/debt) aside as the supply pool.

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Turn sequence
Event Phase
- The first player draws the top card from the event deck & resolve the event if available. If the event card is Train
Robbery, players take turn to place cubes on the Train card starting with the first player. Cubes placed on the Train
card.cannot be used again in the Movement phase of this round.

Bounty Hunt Phase

Movement Phase
- Starting with the first player (who got the Coach card), then go to next player on the left (clockwise), each player
places his meeple or cowboys (cubes) on one of the location cards one by one with the following restrictions.
- A player may place his meeple to any Town Character card or any location card except Bank, Church or Sheriff’s Office.
- A player may place one or more cubes to Bank or Church with no restriction.
- A player may place one or more cubes to any building card of the last row (General Store, Stage Depot, Hotel, Train
Station & Gold Mine) if he has the most cubes there after placement.
- For example, Red player placed one cube to Gold Mine. Then Blue player placed two cubes to Gold Mine. If Red
player wants to place more cubes there, he must place at least two more to a total of three which is more than the
two blue cubes placed.
- However, meeples are free to place at the last row locations with any number of enemy cubes there.
- Players take turn to place meeple/cubes until no more cubes or meeples can be placed or all players passed.

Action Phase
- Starting with the leftmost card on the second row (i.e. Saloon card), players take actions allowed by the card with
the following rules if he has cubes or meeple placed there.
Saloon – Only meeples can be placed here. No cubes can be placed at Saloon.
- There are no limit on number of meeples placed here. Each placed meeple can do one of the following actions:
- A player may bet up to $5 by rolling one die. If the roll is 1-4, he loses the money he bets. If the roll is 5 or 6, he
wins amount of money he bets. A player may reroll the die once for each gambling skill he has. He may use item
cards too if he wants. However, a maximum of two rerolls can be made even he has more than two gambling skills.
- Instead of gambling, a player may pay $4 to recruit a new cowboy (i.e. cube) if he can pay the cost.
- In case a meeple retreats from a challenge (i.e. meeple vs meeple), the retreating meeple may always go to Saloon to
do one the above actions if the player wants.

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Town Character cards
- If only one meeple is placed on a town character card, that meeple can do the action shown on that card.
- If two or more meeples are placed on same town character card, a challenge is resolved to determine who will stay
on the town character card. Only one meeple can stay on the card after the challenge.
- Retreating meeples may always go to Saloon to do gambling or buying one cube.
Bank/Church
- Only cubes can be placed here. No meeples can be placed at Bank or Church.
- There are no limit on number of cubes can be placed at Bank or Church.
Bank
- For each cube placed here, a player may borrow $4 from the bank & take one debt token.
- Instead of borrowing from the bank, a player may rob the bank if he has two cubes placed here. Roll two dice, then
add the sum of the rolled result & take that amount of money from the bank . For each “5” or “6” is rolled, the
player gets one wanted token. A player may reroll once for each Horse card being played.
Church
- For each cube placed here, a player may pay $5 to buy one fame token. A maximum of two fame tokens can be
bought by a player each round.
- Instead of buying fame, a player may pay $4 to remove a wanted token.
Sheriff’s Office
- It is a special location. It is the jail to imprison the criminals so no one wants to place their cowboys here.
- If a player gets 2 wanted tokens, he sends a cube to Sheriff’s Office from his hands or buildings instantly.
- Fame points are deducted at game end if cubes are kept here.
- Deduct 1 fame points for one cube. Deduct 3 fame points for 2 cubes. Deduct 6 fame points for 3 cubes.
General Store/Stage Depot/Hotel/Train Station/Gold Mine
- For each cube or meeple placed here, a player may do the action allowed by that building with following restrictions :
- If two or more meeples are placed here, resolve a challenge until only one meeple stays on that building.
- Check supremacy for each building. A player gets the supremacy if he has a meeple in that building. If no meeples
are placed to that building, the player with most cubes there gets the supremacy.
- Player with supremacy in that building may collect amount of money shown on the building card (as protection fee
or donation to the clan). In additions, he can do the action allowed by that card.
- Player who placed cubes to the building but with no supremacy may still do action on the building card (except
Stage Depot & Hotel), but for each action done, the player needs to pay $1 to the player with supremacy there.
- For example, Red player has a meeple in Gold Mine & Blue player has three cubes there too. Red player gets the supremacy
& collects $5 from the bank. Red player also gets $2 for action in Gold Mine. Blue player gets $2 for each cube in Gold
Mine but he has to pay $1 for each $2 collected to Red player. So Blue player gets $4 from the bank & pay $2 to Red player.
- Dynamite – a player may play a Dynamite card to burn a building if he has cubes placed there. Once burned, no one
can collect money or do action in that building in this round.

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General Store
- The player with supremacy gets $3.
- For each cube or meeple placed here, a player may pay $3 to draw one item card from the deck. A maximum of two
item cards may be drawn for each player even he has more than two cubes placed to General Store.
- A maximum of four item cards can be kept in hands. Players may discard cards in hands to keep new ones.
Stage Depot
- No actions in Stage Depot. The player with supremacy gets $4 & takes the Coach card.

Hotel
- No actions in Hotel. The player with supremacy gets $4 and steals one item card from any player.
Train Station
- The player with supremacy gets $5.
- For each cube or meeple placed here, a player may pay $5 to get one cube of same player color. A maximum of two
cubes can be recruited for each player even he has more than two cubes here.
Gold Mine
- The player with supremacy gets $5.
- For each cube or meeple placed here, a player gets $2. A maximum of $4 can be collected from Gold Mine even
there are more than two cubes here.

Turn End Phase – this phase is replaced by Scoring Phase in round six.
- Retrieve all cubes & meeples by each player.
- Draw new wanted cards to replace completed ones.
- Discard the current three town character cards to the discard pile. Draw three new cards from the town character deck.

Scoring Phase - it occurs after the end of Action phase in round six.
- Players must pay $5 for each debt token collected. A wanted token is taken for each unpaid debt. For every two
wanted token got, a player must place one cube to the Sheriff’s Office.
- Players score fame points for highest skill of each type.
- Players count fame points for fame tokens, Hat cards, & completed wanted cards, then deduct fame points for cubes
in Sheriff’s Office. Player with most fame points wins.

Challenge
- A challenge occurs when two or more meeples are placed at same building.
- Player whose meeple has highest player order (i.e. first player > second player…) in that building becomes the
challenger. He picks two skill types for the challenge.
- The other players who has meeples in same building may accept or refuse the offer starting with the player of next
highest player order. If a player accepts, he chooses one of the two skill types offered by the challenger. Both players take
a wanted token & resolve the challenge with that skill type instantly. Once a challenge is resolved, no more challenge can

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 be made in the same building in this round.
- If a player passes, he pays $2 to the challenger & withdraws his meeple to Saloon. Other players who have meeple
in same building may accept the challenge according to player order. If no one accepts the challenge, no challenge is
made & the challenger’s meeple stays in that building.
- There are four types of challenges. They are Gun duel (comparing ), Brawling (comparing ), Horse Racing
(comparing ), and Poker Game (comparing ).
- When a challenge starts, both players take a wanted token first.
- Both players picked the item cards they want to use, then reveal the cards at the same time.
- Compare the total of the picked skill for both players. Player with highest corresponding skill wins the challenge.
- For tie, a mini game is played by the two players to determine the winner.

Gun Duel
- For tie of shooting skills, each player takes three dice & roll at the same time. Each roll of “5” or “6” scores a hit &
removes one die from the opposing player. The players repeat this until a player’s health (dice) is down to zero. As a
player gets more hits, he rolls less dice until he has no dice to shoot.
- For example, Player A rolls rolled “1”, “3” & “6”, so he scored one hit & removes one die from Player B. Player B
rolls “2”, “5” & “6”, so he removes two dice from Player A. In next round, Player A gets only one die to roll while
Player B gets two dice to roll .
- A double KO result may occur if both sides lose the last die in same round. In such case, both players lose &
withdraw their meeples, so no one stays in that building.

Brawling
- For tie of brawling skills, each player takes three dice as their meeple’s health. Play a Rock/Paper/Scissor game between
the two players. For each win, remove a die from the losing player. The player who lost his last die first loses the challenge.

Horse Racing
- For tie of riding skills, each player takes three dice & roll at the same time. A player can lock any dice he wants, then
rerolls the other dice as fast as he can & repeats. A player who rolled three of a kind first wins instantly.

Poker Game
- For tie of gambling skills, each player takes five dice & roll at the same time. A player can lock any dice he wants,
then rerolls the other dice. After the first reroll, both players may lock or unlock any dice again. Then both players
makes the last reroll of the other dice.
- Compare the final roll results. The player with best hands wins the challenge. The order of hands is : Five of a kind
> Four of a kind > Full House > Three of a kind > Two pairs > One pair > No pair.
- For example, Both John and Carl have Full House in hands. John has three “6” while Carl has three “4”. So John wins.

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Result of Challenge
- The winning player gets one fame point.
- The losing player loses one fame point. No fame point is lost if the player has none.
- The losing player withdraws his meeple & turns it sideway. No actions can be made by his meeple in this round.
- The winning player can keep his meeple on the card.
- Both players (win or lose) get one skill token for corresponding challenge (e.g. one for brawling challenge).

Debts & Wanted

- For each debt token collected, a player needs to repay $5 to the bank in the Scoring Phase. A player gets a wanted
token for each debt token he cannot repay.
- Anytime in the game, if a player gets two wanted tokens, he must send a cube to the Sheriff’s Office instantly.

Game Goal
- The game ends after six rounds when the town character deck is empty.
- The player who scored most fame points in Scoring Phase wins the election & becomes the new mayor of the town.
- For ties, the player with most money wins.

Fame Points
- A player may gain one fame point by winning a challenge.
- A player may gain fame points for completing a Wanted card in Bounty Hunt. The number of fame points gained is
shown on the top of each wanted card.
- A player may gain fame points for paying Engineer or Singer if he has meeple placed to these cards.
- A player may buy fame point for $5 each from the Church during Action phase. No more than two fame points can
be bought from Church in each round.
- A player gets one fame point for each Hat card he keeps at game end.
- In Scoring Phase, players also score fame points for being Master of a skill. A player scores two fame points each if
he has the most skill points in one of the four skills , , , . For counting skill points, count the number
of skills from player character cards & skill tokens only. No item cards can be used for this purpose. For ties, fame
points are shared equally with fractions dropped.
- Finally, fame points are deducted for cubes placed at Sheriff’s Office.

Credits :
Game designed by David Cheng
Game playtested by Jimmy, Jacky, Tim, Kim, Aman, Victor, Vicky, Joe, Fanny, Candy, Michel, Donald….

This is a free PNP game solely for private use only. Please do not use it for
commercial purpose.