What are the rules of “Othello, a Game”?

At the beginning of the game every player gets 3 1point cards and 2 2 point cards (you will need these cards in case you fail to do a task or a chance card punishes you.) Leave the other point cards into and let’s call that space the bank.

To see who gets to start first, all the players must roll the dice at least once. The person who gets a 6 first (or the person who gets the higher number) gets to start the game. You then roll the dice again and start moving on the board (from tight to left). Based on what your chance decides for you, you might land on either a story card space (S), a task space (T), a chance space (CH), or a golden task space (GT).

If you land on a story space, you should pick a story card and narrate that part of the story of Othello to the other players (the parts are very short and it should take under a minute to do so. You then keep that card to yourself, and each card is worth 1 point.

If you land on a task space, you have to pick a task card and complete the task. If you complete the task successfully, you get a 1 point card, if you can’t, you should return a 1 point card to the bank. You cannot pass on the tasks!

If you land on a chance space, you should pick a chance card.

If you land on a golden task space, you get to pick a golden task card and gain a 2 points card. The difference is that you can pass on doing a golden task, which means you don’t gain or lose any points.

Make sure you read back of the sheet for more information about the rules of the game.

The game finishes in either of the following 3 ways:

1. All of the story cards are read (which means you have finished and learned the story of Othello). In this case, the person who has the most points wins.
2. Before beginning to play, you decide you want to play only up to the end of a certain act (based on the story cards on which every act number is indicated). In this way also, the person with the most points wins the game.
3. Someone reaches to the center point, in which case the game immediately ends and the person who has reached to the center is the winner!