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Virya BRICS

Pick a country. Buy places, trade cards, build, collect rent. Highest total score wins.

10-min lesson45-min full game1–5 players

Virya BRICSTHE ENERGY IN YOU

Pick your country

🐉ChinaCapital and Tech. Cheaper bank trades.

🐻RussiaEnergy and Minerals. Power grids.

🐯IndiaTech and Grain. Fibre and space.

🐆BrazilGrain and Capital. Farms pay extra.

🦁South AfricaMinerals and Capital. Africa first.

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Walkthrough

1 · The board

It's a loop of 40 squares. The coloured ones are places you can own. The four dark corners are banks and clubs you can run. The gold square is where everyone starts.

2 · Pick a country

You're one of five countries. Each one makes cards every round — India makes Tech, China makes Capital, and so on. You don't make every card your buildings need, and saving up alone is slow. Trading gets you there faster.

3 · Roll and move

Roll two dice, move that many squares. Land on an empty place? You can buy it. Land on someone else's place? You pay them rent. Pass the gold square? You get V₹100.

4 · Trade, then build

Every place has a recipe of three cards. Get the cards — swap with a friend, a bot, or hand the bank four cards for one — then build. A built place charges four times the rent.

5 · Watch the forecast

The next crisis is always face up on the board, so you see it coming one round early. When it hits, you can pay to help (earns Trust), try to calm it down with a dice roll, or do nothing. Roll a 7 and it hits early.

6 · Keep your promises

You can promise a card for later. Deliver it on time and you both gain Trust. Miss it and you lose two. Trust is worth V₹150 a point at the end and wins every tie.

7 · Summits

Every third round the table meets. First, everyone can chip in cards for a joint project — funded, it helps all; unfunded, all pay. Then you vote on two new rules. Run a corner and the bank pays you.

8 · How you win

When the last round ends, add up your cash, your places, your buildings, your corners and your Trust. Biggest number leads the bloc. That's it.

How to play

The goal. Finish with the highest total score: cash + places + buildings + corners + Trust. Cash is only part of it.

Words. Place = a square you can buy. Building = what you put on it. Rent = what visitors pay you. Capital is a card; your money is V₹.

New? Play the 4-round lesson first — a guide walks you through each step.

Your turn, in four moves

Roll two dice and move.
Deal with the square. Empty place → buy it or skip. Someone else's place → pay rent. Corner → pay its recipe to run it. Crisis square → draw a card.
Trade once. Swap cards with a player or a bot, or give the bank 4 cards for 1 card (or for V₹100). Doubles = two trades.
Build one thing: pay a place's recipe, or try for a space milestone. Then end your turn.

Before round 1: opening market

Each country may buy up to three cards of any kind at V₹90 each — a fairer start for countries whose buildings need cards they don't make.

Every round, before anyone moves

Everyone gets their cards and V₹100. Your buildings give you extra cards.
The crisis that was face up now happens. A new one is turned face up for next round.

The five cards

Energy · Capital · Tech · Grain · Minerals. Each country makes two of one and one of another. Most recipes need a card you don't make; the rest take several rounds of saving. Trading is faster.

Rent

An empty place you own earns a little. Build on it and it earns four times as much. Own all three places of a colour: +50%. Last three rounds: +25%.
Can't pay? You sell a place back at half price. Nobody is ever knocked out.

Buildings (the recipes)

Port: Capital + Minerals + Grain. Best rent.
Rail: Minerals + Minerals + Energy. Your next place in that colour is V₹50 cheaper.
Power Grid: Energy + Energy + Capital. Makes you 2 Energy a round.
Fibre: Tech + Tech + Capital. Makes you 1 Tech a round.
Farm (Agri & Water): Grain + Grain + Energy. Makes you 2 Grain a round.
Hospital (Health & Education): Tech + Grain + Capital. +1 Trust when built.
Spaceport: Tech + Tech + Energy. Space rolls get easier.

Crises

Some cards just happen (a storm, a price shock). Others let you choose: send aid (pay cash, gain Trust), mediate (spend cards and roll a die — win big or lose a Trust), or stay out of it.
Roll a 7 on your turn and the face-up crisis happens right away.
Some cards come from the G20, G7, UN, IMF and World Bank — invitations, resolutions, programmes and reports. They reward Trust and projects, and sometimes ask you to chip in.

Trust

Everyone starts at 3, max 6. Trust earned above 6 pays V₹75 instead. Earn it by delivering promises, joint projects, hospitals, aid, mediating, or hosting a good summit. Lose it by breaking promises.
Each point is worth V₹150 at the end, and Trust wins every tie.

Promises

Give someone a card now; they promise you a card at least two rounds later. Deliver: +1 Trust each (a pair can earn this twice per game). Miss: −2 Trust, and the bank pays you anyway. One open promise per player.

Summits

After rounds 3, 6 and 9. Joint project first: each seat may put in up to two needed cards (V₹60 each, +1 Trust). The NDB chair can finance the last two cards. Funded: everyone gets its bonus. Short: every seat pays V₹80.
The next summit's project and what it does for you are shown in the middle of the board — collect the cards in advance.
Then two new rules. Majority passes. In Consensus mode one “no” blocks it — like real BRICS — but each objector says what it wants, and a yes-voter can win it over with a card or V₹100. Yes-voters pay a card to make it real. The seat furthest behind gets V₹100.
You can also try to take over a corner someone else runs — pay its recipe plus one extra card.

Corners

Pay the recipe printed on a corner and you run it. The bank then pays you: NDB V₹60 each summit and can finance joint projects; BRICS Pay V₹20 on every rent; Tech Standards V₹25 when others build Fibre or hospitals; Reserve Basket V₹50 every summit.
Real vs game: the New Development Bank is real and lends for infrastructure. BRICS Pay and the Reserve Basket are game ideas.

Space

Four milestones, in order. Pay the cards, roll the die, beat the target. Missed? You keep +1 research on the next try (up to +3). You can also spend an extra Tech for +1. First to each gets cash and Trust. Most milestones = Space Leader, which counts as a corner.

Score

Cash + what you paid for your places + V₹150 per building (V₹200 for a hospital) + V₹300 per corner + V₹150 per Trust + V₹25 per leftover card.
Bonus: own a full colour and two corners and you get V₹500 once as Bloc Leader.

Three tips

Build early. A built place earns four times the rent.
Trade with bots on their terms: give them a card they want and they'll swap 1:1.
Keep your Trust up. It's cheap to earn and it decides ties.