Syzygy Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Setup
• Objective
• Round Structure
• Endgame
• Extra Rule: Trial for the Gods
• Divine Challenge (Very Hard)
• Two-Player Rules

Components

• Planet Card: 9 cards
• God Chip: 4 chips per color, 6 colors
• Player Summary: 1 sheet per color, 6 colors
• Blackhole Card: 1 card (used only with the Trial for the Gods extra rule)

Setup

• Shuffle the 9 Planet Cards and line them up face down.
• Each player gets four God Chips of the same color and one Player Summary sheet.
• Place each God Chip onto the Player Summary at the position showing the same icon.

Objective

Make a sequence from 1 to 9, or from 9 to 1, at the timing of the ENDGAME.

Round Structure

Select one of the players as the first player, in any way you like.

From the first player, going clockwise, each player takes one of the following actions:

A. Confirm and Move a Planet Card

1. Select one of the Planet Cards that your God Chip has not been put on yet.
2. Check the Planet Card by yourself, secretly.
3. Move the Planet Card to another place where it is between a card and another card. *The Planet Card cannot be in its current position.
4. Put your God Chip onto the Planet Card you moved. *The God Chip must be used from the smaller number.

Moving Cards: the sheet's diagram marks two "NG" (not allowed) moves: "NG: Current position" and "NG: Edge of the row".

B. Pass

Face down the smallest-numbered God Chip you have, and pass your turn.

OH MY GOD

The player must say "OH MY GOD" when the player checks a card. You can include any of your emotions in the sentence. Any other communications are forbidden.

Endgame

The game ends once all players have taken actions four times.

Turn all the Planet Cards face up, and confirm whether you meet the OBJECTIVE.

Extra Rule: Trial for the Gods

Story: The Blackhole has swallowed a planet! Try to restore the lost planet by God's power.

Setup

• Use the Planet Cards from 1st to 7th. (Return the 8th and 9th Planet Cards to the box.)
• Shuffle the Planet Cards thoroughly, face down.
• Place the Blackhole Card onto the center of the table.
• Subsequently, place the Planet Cards. On each side of the Blackhole Card, place three Planet Cards face down.
• Set the remaining one Planet Card aside, face down.

Round Structure

The same as the basic rule. The Blackhole Card is used the same as a Planet Card. However, you cannot select the Blackhole Card at A-1.

Endgame

The game ends once all players have taken actions four times.

• Place the Planet Card that was set aside at Setup onto the Blackhole Card.
• Turn all the Planet Cards face up, and confirm whether you meet the OBJECTIVE.
• At the ENDGAME, if you achieved the OBJECTIVE, you shall stand as the true Gods of Universe Creation!

Divine Challenge (Very Hard)

Setup

• Set up "Trial for the Gods" using the Planet Cards from 1st to 9th.

• At Setup, place four Planet Cards face down. Set the remaining one Planet Card aside, face down.

  Source note: the English side says only "place four Planet Cards face down" and does not say where. The Chinese side of the same sheet says the cards are placed face down on the two sides of the Blackhole Card, four on each side. This transcription keeps the English wording as printed; the placement is as the Chinese side describes it.

Any other rules are the same as Trial for the Gods.

Two-Player Rules

The printed sheet directs players to a QR code to preview or download the two-player rules. They are not reproduced in this file.