Aurum

Play the role of an alchemist who transforms base metals into gold!

After years of experimentation in your shared laboratory, you and your fellow alchemists have just succeeded in transmuting base metals into gold! All that remains is to perfect the formula, repeating the experiments to find the perfect combination of metals that will produce the purest gold.

Aurum is a turn-based game for three or four players, with two teams of two competing in the four-player game. Once all the turn cards have been dealt, you bid on the number of tricks you think you or your team will win. (In a four-player game, the higher of a team's two bids becomes the team's bid).

During the turn, you can start with any non-gold card. On your turn, you cannot play a suit that has already been played (unless it's a gold card). The highest number of cards played wins, but gold is the trump suit and always wins. Whoever has played the lowest non-gold card adds a gold card of the same number to their collection, if available. All gold cards played during a trick are returned to the reserve.

The turn ends immediately when a player cannot play a valid base metal card and has no gold card to play or chooses not to play a gold card. If you win more tricks than your bid, you earn the value of your bid in points; if you have exactly reached your bid, you earn double the value of your bid in points. In addition, you earn points according to the number of gold cards in your collection. The player or team with the most points wins a gold nugget, and the first to have two wins!