Strategy · 2024

Cudillero

Blind bidding and colourful houses: buy, build and shift the value of each colour to become the village's best builder.

2–4 players
40–50 min
2.2 / 5 · Light

Set up the game

0 of 6 steps

Tick each step as you complete it.

1Give each player their 18-card action deck, their personal marker and one +10 and one +20 token. Shuffle the deck and draw five cards: that is your starting hand.
Components
Marker
2Build the portal deck with four cards per player and place it face up. Deal one portal to each player and put it in their play area: it counts as already built and floor cards can go on top of it.
Cards
3Shuffle the roof cards and deal two to each player. Everyone keeps one and returns the other to the deck. That roof is built free of charge only at the end of the game, and it is meant to shape your strategy from the start.
Portals and roofs
4Shuffle the floor deck and the roof deck separately. Build the central market from both decks according to the player count, and leave the portal deck beside it.
Cards
5Put the value board to one side and set each colour marker on the 0 space. The cubes move up and down during the game and set what each colour is worth when you score.
The value board
Marker
6Make one pile of Extra Action tokens and another of Relocate tokens, and place one on the second jornada space and one on the third. Shuffle the common objectives and reveal one at random.
Tokens

What it is about

Cudillero is a building game wrapped in an auction that changes everything: you are not only competing for cards, you are competing for how many times you get to move in a turn. Winning the bid is not enough: if your action card does not fit what you need, you have won the right to do the wrong thing twice.

The game builds like the village itself: portal by portal, floor by floor, with one eye on the value board. A colour that climbs two levels turns a modest group into a points machine, and a colour that falls can leave your best building worth nothing.

Everything is added up at the end, and the winner is rarely the player who looked strongest along the way: height, connected colours, the fibre network and facade details all weigh differently, and whoever read the value board early takes the game.

BGG page Official rulebook

Source note

The Spanish rulebook covers setup, the two phases of each round, the three actions, the clothesline and colour bonuses, final scoring, common objectives and the individual-objective and value-market variants. The two variants are not detailed here. The rulebook was consulted online: BGG blocks direct PDF downloads.

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