Welcome to the Roaring Twenties! Gatsby is a two-player game where you take on the role of either Dorothy Williams or James Miller, competing to spread their influence and draw the attention of the great Jay Gatsby. On the board are featured 3 locations, each offering different opportunities to get Character tiles: the Cabaret, the Finance Center and the Racetrack. To claim these characters, each player will take turns moving the Action marker on one of the four action spaces, activating it – note that you cannot repeat the action your opponent just took. These actions let you place 2 influence tokens on 1 or 2 locations, allowing you to claim characters in different ways, depending on the location. In the Cabaret, your tokens must form a continuous line from one side of the board to the opposite side, or cover the 4 star icons at the same time. In the Finance Center, influence lets you climb up the track. In the Racetrack, your tokens are place in races, trying to be the player with the most tokens on that race line when it's completely filled. On all 3 locations, some special spaces on the board grant bonuses when you place a token on them: swapping two tokens on the board, forcing your opponent to take a specific action, or gaining a special action tile! The game ends immediately when a player wins by controlling 3 characters of the same color, or 1 character of each of the 5 different colors. If all character tiles from a single location have been claimed before one of these conditions is met, the player with the most stars on their characters wins the game. —description from the publisher
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