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    Bora Bora Teaching Aide: What Is The Game About?

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    Bora Bora is a worker placement game where players settle the island of Bora Bora over 6 rounds to collect victory points. On their turn, players roll dice to place workers and perform actions like building huts, collecting resources, and worshiping gods. Actions include expanding territory, gaining workers, building temples, fishing, and more. Players then use workers to complete additional tasks before assessing victory points from completed objectives like jewelry collected, tasks finished, and temple features built. The game ends after 6 rounds when all tasks have been completed or discarded, and the player with the most victory points from settlement and worship is the winner.

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    Bora Bora is a worker placement game where players settle the island of Bora Bora over 6 rounds to collect victory points. On their turn, players roll dice to place workers and perform actions like building huts, collecting resources, and worshiping gods. Actions include expanding territory, gaining workers, building temples, fishing, and more. Players then use workers to complete additional tasks before assessing victory points from completed objectives like jewelry collected, tasks finished, and temple features built. The game ends after 6 rounds when all tasks have been completed or discarded, and the player with the most victory points from settlement and worship is the winner.

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    Bora Bora is a worker placement game where players settle the island of Bora Bora over 6 rounds to collect victory points. On their turn, players roll dice to place workers and perform actions like building huts, collecting resources, and worshiping gods. Actions include expanding territory, gaining workers, building temples, fishing, and more. Players then use workers to complete additional tasks before assessing victory points from completed objectives like jewelry collected, tasks finished, and temple features built. The game ends after 6 rounds when all tasks have been completed or discarded, and the player with the most victory points from settlement and worship is the winner.

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    Bora Bora Teaching Aide: What Is The Game About?

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    Bora Bora is a worker placement game where players settle the island of Bora Bora over 6 rounds to collect victory points. On their turn, players roll dice to place workers and perform actions like building huts, collecting resources, and worshiping gods. Actions include expanding territory, gaining workers, building temples, fishing, and more. Players then use workers to complete additional tasks before assessing victory points from completed objectives like jewelry collected, tasks finished, and temple features built. The game ends after 6 rounds when all tasks have been completed or discarded, and the player with the most victory points from settlement and worship is the winner.

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    Bora Bora Teaching Aide

    What is the Game About?

    • In this game you will explore and settle the island of Bora Bora and collect victory points by
    o Using dice as worker placement to perform a variety of actions, such as,
    ▪ Building huts,
    ▪ Adding men and women to your tribe,
    ▪ Worshiping the Gods by building them a sacred temple,
    ▪ Sending priests to temples to influence the Gods,
    ▪ Collecting jewelry,
    ▪ And completing misc tasks

    How Do You Play?

    • The game is played over 6 rounds which consist of three phases


    o Phase A – Roll & Place Die & Carry Out Actions
    ▪ Rolling your 3 dice and placing them on actions, round robin style as workers
    • Actions are Expanding, Woman, Man, Helper, Temple, Build and Fish
    ▪ Action dice placement must be less than the existing die if present
    ▪ Expand Action
    • Island dice placement must be equal or greater than pictured die
    ▪ Woman / Man Action
    • Take the woman or man worker that is equal to or less than your die
    ▪ Helper Action
    • Trade for various items according to the trade value shown on the
    player board
    o 1:1 Tattooing
    o 1:1 Shell Collecting
    o 1:1 Victory Points
    o 2:1 Offerings
    o 2:1 God Cards
    o 2:1 Building Materials
    o 2:1 Move Huts
    ▪ Temple Action
    • Place a priest from you supply onto a spot equal or lower to your die
    • Take Fire Bonus
    ▪ Build Action
    • Remove any two adjacent building materials in your sacred temple and
    replace with a building tile equal to or less than your die value
    • Take Fire Bonus
    ▪ Fish Action
    • Place any value die, no mater what die may be present, and
    immediately gain 2 VP
    o Phase B – Use Man / Woman Actions
    ▪ In turn order, use one man and one woman’s actions
    • Matching women and men count as “one”
    o Phase C – Assess
    ▪ Tattoo Track – Move VP based on location on track, and determine new turn
    order. Stack players in descending order on “0”.
    ▪ Temple Track – Score VP for priests placed, player w/ most priests wins God tile
    ▪ Jewelry Tiles – Use new turn order and take turns buying jewelry
    ▪ Task Tiles – In new turn order choose one task tile to complete & score VP. If no
    task tile was completed, choose one to discard.
    • In new turn order, choose a new task tile.
    ▪ Prepare for Next Round
    • remove all unpurchased jewelry
    • remove and refresh all men and women tiles
    • put out new task tiles

    God Cards

    o God cards can be used at any time during your turn by giving up an offering
    ▪ You can play two God cards of the same color and choose your God power
    ▪ You can play a God tile without making an offering and choose your God power
    • Blue God (Phase A only)
    o You can ad a die to an action tile, even if its value is the same as
    or greater than the lowest die on that tile.
    • White God (Phase A only)
    o You can add a die to an action tile as if it’s value were a “6”. Do
    not change the value on the die.
    • Red God (Phase A or B)
    o Allows you to immediately collect the fish bonus.
    • Green God (Phase B)
    o Double the effect of your man or woman tile.
    o Activate a second, different, man or woman type.
    • Yellow God (Phase C)
    o Play to replace one of your task tile requirements.

    Game End

    • The game ends after 6 rounds.


    o You complete your task, and then take another. At this point you have the chance to
    complete all tasks in front of you.
    o VP are then tallied.
    How To Get Victory Points

    • Moving along the tattoo track


    • Sending Priests to the temple
    • Fishing
    • Using the Helper Action for VP
    • Building your sacred temple
    • Keeping God tiles (2 VP ea)
    • Collecting your fish score using Red God
    • Being the active hut on a region at the end of the game to get the fish bonus (1-6 VP)
    • Collect jewelry (VP between 1-9) (6 VP for having 6)
    • Complete your tasks (6 VP for 9 completed tasks)
    • Fill your temple ceremony spaces (6 VP)
    • Build all 6 ceremony tiles (6 VP)
    • Have huts in all 12 regions (6 VP)
    • Have all 12 man/woman spaces filled (6 VP)

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