Obsession

The game plays over a series of rounds that are one of two types:

• Standard rounds
• Courtship rounds

Special Actions

In standard rounds, players each take a turn to either host an activity or pass. During your turn, you may also take any of the following special actions:

• Spend 2 reputation to gain 100 pounds
• Spend 3 reputation to move a servant from Servants' Quarters to Available Service
• Spend 4 reputation to refresh the Builder's Market
• Discard a victory point card to gain the bonus shown on the card:
  • Doing this will forfeit the victory points shown on the card at the end of the game

Spending reputation means moving the black reputation marker down the corresponding number of steps, updating your reputation level as necessary

Servants

Players are only allowed to have one of the following servants at a time:

• Cook (orange)
• Hall boy (light blue)
• Head housemaid (pink)
• Useful man (brown):
  • If you discard the useful man, you cannot hire another for the rest of the game

When stealing servants from other players, you cannot steal:

• Butler (dark blue)
• Head housekeeper (red)
• Underbutler (black)
• Cook (orange)
• Hall boy (light blue)
• Head housemaid (pink)
• Useful man (brown)

Gentry Cards

During the game, you will gain tiles that require you to play a certain number of cards from your hand to host an activity with that tile. You can tell which kinds of cards need to be played in the following way:

• Gentry:
  • Any guest cards
• Lady:
  • Cards with circular portraits
• Gentleman:
  • Cards with square portraits
• Family:
  • Cards with your family's symbol in the top left corner

The game ends after the 4th courtship round has been completed and round track pawn is on Wedding Bells space.

Then final scoring begins