HOW TO PLAY

1. 1. 1. Give each player:
         • Factory Board
         • Vault
         • Reminder Card.
         • ⑤①①① for their Wallet (money not in Vault is in Wallet)
         • bot (placed in the hole on her Basic Fabricator).
      2. (If not already done at the end of last game) Shuffle the improvements and put 6 in the Extras and the rest (21) in the Improvements Stack.
      3. Put the top 2 improvements from the Improvements Stack into the 7-cost and 5-cost spots in the Shop.
      4. Flip the top blueprint card of each Blueprint Stack face up.
      5. Choose a player to go first and give her the the card.
      6. Figure out how many stacks of improvements to play with:

If you took the Shop board out of the box during setup, put it back in its spot in the box now. Do the same for the blueprints, and improvements. You play with the box as part of the game.

Your factory is how you make bots, and bots are how you make money!

You’ll spend your game moving bots from the Fabricators in your Start Zone to the Trucks in your Loading Dock. Along the way, you’ll buy improvements for your factory that let you make more or better bots.

You may sell any bots in your Trucks and get money for them. Take the bots you wish to sell and return them to the supply. Take money from the supply based on which models of TIDYBOT you sold and put it into your Wallet:

→ ②

→ ④

→ ⑥

You can complete blueprints using bots you choose not to sell. But don’t worry about blueprints until later in the game.

Buy improvements from the Shop to make your factory better! You can buy as many as you can afford with the money in your Wallet.

Each improvement upgrades, multiplies, or makes money from the bots that go through it. Each improvement’s cost is the number next to it on the Shop. When you buy an improvement, choose whether to install it in your factory or recycle it into bots.

Installing an Improvement

• Fabricators go in your factory’s Start Zone (left), Trucks in the Loading Dock (right). All other improvements are installed in any square in the Factory Floor (center).
• Improvements don’t need to snap together with anything.
• Once you have installed an improvement you may not move it… but you may demolish improvements to make space for new ones.

See the FAQ section for more on installing improvements.

Recycling an Improvement

Instead of installing it in your factory, drop the improvement into the Recycler (the hole in the Shop). Place the bots shown on its recycling value (bottom right corner) in any of the holes in your Start Zone.

Once you are satisfied you don’t want to install or recycle any more improvements, you Make Bots.

You can complete blueprints and buy Trucks and Forks at any point in your turn. Wait until at least the second workday before you worry about them, though; focus on the Shop during your first turn.

Forks

Forks let you send any bots that pass through them to either exit arrow of your choice.

Forks cost ①. Forks are always buyable, and never change price.

Every time you get back to the player who has the card (the first player), it’s time to end the current workday and begin a new one:

Check if the Game is Over:

If the Improvements Stack has run out* and there are no more improvements in the Shop, the game is over; if so, stop the workday now and begin scoring.

*In a 4-player game, the Extra improvements must also run out to end the game.

Refresh Blueprints:

If the blueprints are sideways (if somebody completed one this workday), put both blueprints face down at the bottom of their respective Stacks and flip new blueprints to replace them.

Start a New Workday:

Start a new workday and run everybody’s factories.
(See the Run Your Factories section for details)

1. Move each bot in your factory along the arrows of your conveyor belts until it gets to a hole. Once it does, that bot is done moving for the turn.
2. Activate any improvements in your factory with bots in them.

Most improvements work by destroying the bots in their input holes (holes near the entrance surrounded by a dotted red line) and filling their output holes (all other holes) with more or better bots.

Check the section called The Improvements at the end of this page to learn specifically what each improvement does.

It’s the start of the workday. Everyone presses the button on the card. Rachel runs her factory while everyone else runs their own:

If the game is over, it’s time to score. Each player adds up her money, and the player with the most wins!

You add up:

• Money in your Wallet
• Money in your Vault
• The value of your improvements

Follow these steps to be ready to play right out of the box when you start your next game:

1. Return all bots and money to the box.
2. Player take apart their factories: Return all Trucks and Forks to their stacks in the box
   • Gather all the improvements (including ones that were recycled) and shuffle them.
   • Put 6 improvements into the Extras and the remaining 21 into the Improvements Stack
3. Shuffle all the blueprints and divide them into a pile of 7 and a pile of 8, then place each pile face down in its Stack in the box.
4. Place Vaults, reminder cards, and ’s card beneath the Shop.

The Improvements

*Each bot can only pass through each Gift Wrapper, Flight Tester, or Static Charger once per turn. If a bot would pass through the same improvement a 2nd time on the same turn, that bot is destroyed.