Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 5th Extension
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 5th Extension Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
New Ground Floor
Components
- 4 double-sided Expert Ground Floor overlays
A Few Crucial Gameplay Concepts
Parking
Expert (4×3) side - The base game offers 31 spaces before you start building modules. The Expert overlay removes the middle 7, giving you only 24.
Super Expert (3×3) side - The base game offers 24 spaces before you start building modules. The Super Expert overlay removes the middle 4, giving you only 20.
It may not sound like much of a difference, but construction will really cut into those numbers. Remember: A clinic without parking is a clinic without patients!
Pre-Printed Gardens
Both the Expert and Super Expert overlay feature permanent, pre-printed gardens. These work identically to normal gardens for benefits and upkeep; however, the garden in the middle of the Expert (4×3) overlay is offset to occupy two spaces. This means that, although it is a single garden for all purposes, it is considered adjacent to six spaces, rather than four. Furthermore, if you want to build gardens above it, they must straddle two spaces the same way, and each one counts as a single garden for all purposes, but serving six spaces around them.
Setup
Warning: The 4×3 side of the Expert Ground Floor overlays is equivalent to the difficulty of the 3×3 side of the base-game player board. The 3×3 side of the Expert Ground Floor overlays is a whole new level of difficulty: Super Expert!
Cover your Floor 0 with the matching Expert Ground Floor overlay. In general, everyone should agree to play the same board; however, you can agree to play different boards. You can even use this as a handicapping method: A hardcore veteran can use an Expert Ground Floor overlay while a new player does not.
Note: There are no overlays for the other boards, because the ground floor always constrains what can be built above it.
Construct Your Initial Clinic
These overlays have very restricted options for building entrances (these apply now and during the game):
- On the Expert (4×3) side, there are 2 Entrance spaces in the middle of the board, and nowhere else.
- On the Super Expert (3×3) side, there are 4 Entrance spaces in the middle of the board, and nowhere else.
Similarly, there are far fewer "street" parking spaces, because there are none in the middle area.
Double Tiles
Components
- 2 double-sided Double Treatment Room tiles
- 1 double-sided Luxurious Garden tile
- 1 double-sided Huge Parking Lot tile
- 1 double-sided Administrative Offices tile
- 1 double-sided IT Services tile
- 1 double-sided Recovery Room tile
- 1 double-sided Huge Waiting Room tile
- 1 double-sided Large Corridor tile
Setup
Before setting up the Patient and Doctor pools, use the Patient Pool bag to set up the double tiles as follows:
- Put all 9 double tiles in the Patient Pool bag.
- Draw 1 double tile and set it near the Main board.
- Draw a number of pairs of double tiles equal to the player count (see table), and place each pair near the Main board, clearly grouped in pairs:
| Players | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pairs | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Tiles | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
- Return any remaining double tiles to the box.
After the rest of setup, perform the following additional steps:
- In reverse turn order, draft a pair of double tiles. If you wish, you may swap one of the tiles with the solitary double tile beside the board (making your "discarded" one available for subsequent players).
- After everyone has drafted their pair (which may have involved a tile swap), return the solitary double tile to the box.
- You can add either or both of these double tiles to your clinic now; you are welcome to save them for later. Regardless of when you build them, you must pay for them (see Construction Rules for Specific Components below).
Playing the Game
Phase 1: Actions
Execute Actions
Action 1: Build
Construction Rules for Specific Components
Double Tiles
Double tiles have the same construction cost as service hubs and treatment rooms: $2 + the floor number. Specifically:
| Floor | Cost |
|---|---|
| 4 | $6 - (available in The Extension) |
| 3 | $5 |
| 2 | $4 |
| 1 | $3 |
| 0 | $2 |
Important: You can build your double tiles at any time, without using a Build action, and even on another player's turn.
Double Treatment Room
Although there are no particular construction rules for a double treatment room, to be available for use it must be adjacent to a service hub on the same floor, and it must also be adjacent to a supply room; however, the supply room could be directly above or below this double treatment room (it does not have to be beside the double treatment room).
Garden (from the Base Game)
This must be built in an empty ground-floor space (cars parked around it are OK, and need not be disturbed) or a space above a garden or luxurious garden.
Luxurious Garden
This must be built in a pair of empty ground-floor spaces (cars cannot be parked around it) or a pair of spaces above a pair of gardens.
Huge Parking Lot
This must be built in a pair of empty ground-floor spaces (cars cannot be parked around it).
Recovery Room
Although there are no particular construction rules for a recovery room, to be available for use it must be adjacent to a service hub on the same floor, and it must also be adjacent to a supply room; however, the supply room could be directly above or below this recovery room (it does not have to be beside the recovery room).
Action 3: Admit Patients
Parking a Car
The huge parking lot has 12 parking spaces (as depicted on the tile), but no cars can be parked on the borders of the two spaces it occupies. On the other hand, its parking capacity is unaffected by tiles adjacent to it.
Move
When a person moves out of a double tile, they can move to any adjacent space:
- Either of the 2 above the double tile.
- Either of the 2 below the double tile.
- On the same floor, either of the 2 on along each long edge of the double tile.
- On the same floor, either 1 along each short edge of the double tile.
Another way to think of that is to say that moving within a double tile takes 0 time.
Huge Waiting Room
When a patient moves through the huge waiting room, if the huge waiting room has an orderly, the patient can switch to a different service. So, a patient coming from pre-admissions can go to a service mismatching the pre-admissions from which they came; a patient from a treatment room (for example), can move through this to go to a treatment room (for example) for a different service.
Large Corridor
Moving new hires to the large corridor takes 0 time.
Moving patients from pre-admission to the large corridor takes 0 time.
People can move from the large corridor to any module on the same floor or next-higher floor of that building for 1 time.
Note: You are allowed to build a conveyor in the large corridor, if you're really into rapid transit…
Module Capacity
Double Treatment Room: 2 doctors, 4 patients, any number of nurses.
Administrative Offices: 1 doctor, 1 orderly.
IT Services: Depends on the round:
- Rounds I – II: 1 white doctor.
- Rounds III – IV: 2 white doctors.
- Rounds V – VI: 3 white doctors.
Recovery Room: 2 nurses, 3 patients.
Huge Waiting Room: 1 orderly.
Large Corridor: No one can end up here.
Phase 2: Business
Patient Care and Income
Double Treatment Room
In each double treatment room, assign a doctor there to up to 2 identical patients, and a number of nurses to each doctor. If the doctor's color matches the patients' color, no nurses are necessary; however….
To successfully treat a patient, a doctor needs 1 nurse for each stage along the color progression schema that the doctor's level differs from the patients' illness severity. To put it another way, if the doctor is not the same color as the patients, the doctor needs 1 nurse for each color difference. Also, a nurse can only assist 1 doctor per round. So, if 2 doctors in the same module both need nurses, each needs its own full set of nurses.
Example: In your double treatment room, you have 1 yellow doctor, 1 white doctor, 2 nurses, 1 orange patient, and 2 yellow patients. You assign the white doctor and 1 nurse to the 2 yellow patients, and the yellow doctor and 1 nurse to the orange patient. This will enable you to treat the orange patient and both yellow patients.
Garden/Luxurious Garden
Furthermore, each successfully treated patient in a (double) treatment room generates an additional $2 for each garden adjacent to the room, and each successfully treated patient in a (double) treatment room generates an additional $5 if the luxurious garden is adjacent to the room.
Recovery Room
If you have 2 nurses in the recovery room, they can treat up to 3 patients of any color; however, the income each of these patients generates income per this tile. If you have only 1 nurse in the recovery room, no patients there receive treatment!
Note: All usual treatment room bonuses (e.g. gardens, satellite TV…) apply for the recovery room, too.
Expenses
Facility Upkeep
Each double module (including the double corridor) and luxurious garden in your clinic costs $2.
If you have both a doctor and an orderly in administrative offices, this reduces your total upkeep by $5 (minimum $0). Better administered services means more efficient use of supplies!
Phase 3: Admin
Your Player Board
Each other doctor (i.e. not in a lab) on your player board levels down: white stays white, yellow becomes white, orange becomes yellow, red becomes orange; however, if you have a white doctor in administrative offices, that doctor leaves the game (and takes a car) from juggling too much stress. Running around, treating patients is tiring!
Exception: If your IT services has the indicated number of white doctors in it for the current round (half the round number, rounded up; i.e. I – II: 1, III – IV: 2, V – VI: 3), 3 doctors of your choice have sufficient support from IT that they do not level down.
End of the Game
Each double module (including the double corridor) in your clinic is worth 4 Popularity. This excludes the two non-module double tiles: huge parking lot and luxurious gardens.
The Modules
Administrative Offices
Construction: Cannot be built adjacent to another module this shade of green (there aren't any yet anyway). Operation: N/A Capacity: 1 doctor, 1 orderly. Function: During the Business phase, if you have both a doctor and an orderly in administrative offices, this reduces your total upkeep by $5 (minimum $0).
Double Treatment Room
Construction: Cannot be built adjacent to another orange module. Operation: Must have an adjacent service hub on the same floor and an adjacent supply room to operate. The supply room does not need to be on the same floor. Capacity: 2 doctors, 4 patients, any number of nurses. Function: During the Business phase, up to 2 doctors may each treat either 1 patient or 2 identical patients that match the doctor's color. Nurses must be present if the doctor color does not match the patient(s).
Huge Waiting Room
Construction: Cannot be built adjacent to another gray module (so far, that's just the basement modules from the 4th Extension). Operation: N/A Capacity: 1 orderly. Function: When a patient moves through the huge waiting room, if the huge waiting room has an orderly, the patient can switch to a different service.
IT Services
Construction: Cannot be built adjacent to another special (blue) module. Operation: N/A Capacity: Depends on the round:
- Rounds I – II: 1 white doctor.
- Rounds III – IV: 2 white doctors.
- Rounds V – VI: 3 white doctors.
Function: During Admin, if your IT services has the indicated number of white doctors in it for the current round, 3 doctors of your choice do not level down.
Large Corridor
Construction: N/A Operation: N/A Capacity: N/A Function: Moving new hires to the large corridor takes 0 time. Moving patients from pre-admission to the large corridor takes 0 time. People can move from the large corridor to any module on the same floor or next-higher floor of that building for 1 time.
Recovery Room
Construction: Cannot be built adjacent to another sky blue module (there aren't any yet anyway). Operation: Must have an adjacent service hub on the same floor and an adjacent supply room to operate. The supply room does not need to be on the same floor. Capacity: 2 nurses, 3 patients. Function: If you have 2 nurses in the recovery room, they can treat up to 3 patients of any color, but for the indicated income. 1 nurse is insufficient to do anything!
The Other Double Tiles
Huge Parking Lot
Construction: Must be built on the ground floor. Operation: N/A Capacity: N/A Function: Provides 12 parking spaces.
Luxurious Garden
Construction: Must be built on the ground floor or atop a pair of gardens. Only gardens can be built atop it. Operation: N/A Capacity: N/A Function: During the Business phase, each successfully treated patient generates an additional $5 if the luxurious garden is adjacent to their room.