Sheriff of Nottingham Player Reference Card
Phase 1: Market
You may discard unwanted cards and draw new ones.
- Go clockwise starting with Sheriff’s left. One turn each.
- Set aside up to five cards.
- Draw replacements from deck or discard pile. Discard pile must go first.
- Discard set aside cards.
Phase 2: Load Merchant Bag
Place the good cards you want to take to market in merchant bag.
- Place from one to five goods.
Phase 3: Declaration
Declare to the Sheriff what goods you are delivering to market.
- Only legal (green) goods may be declared.
- Only one kind of good may be declared.
- You must declare the exact number of goods in your merchant bag.
Phase 4: Inspection
The Sheriff can choose to inspect the merchant bags.
- Players can offer bribes to avoid the inspection. In fact, the Sheriff can
threaten an inspection to acquire a bribe.
- Bribes can include gold, legal goods from merchant stand, contraband
from merchant stand, goods in the bag, and promises of future favors. Cards
in hand cannot be used in bribes.
- Sheriff chooses to allow player to pass or to inspect the bag.
- If player is allowed to pass, he acquires all goods to his merchant stand.
Legal goods go face up in appropriate areas. Contraband goes face down.
- If a player is inspected, and had exactly what was declared, the Sheriff pays
player gold equal to the penalty on every legal good in the bag.
- If a player is inspected, and did not have exactly what was declared, he
keeps all truthfully declared goods, and discards all non-truthful goods. He
also pays the Sheriff the penalty amount on those discarded goods.
Phase 5: End of Round
Once all players have been Sheriff twice (three times in a three player
game), the game ends.
- Sheriff token passes to the left.
- All players draw back up to six cards.
Sheriff of Nottingham Player Reference Card
Phase 1: Market
You may discard unwanted cards and draw new ones.
- Go clockwise starting with Sheriff’s left. One turn each.
- Set aside up to five cards.
- Draw replacements from deck or discard pile. Discard pile must go first.
- Discard set aside cards.
Phase 2: Load Merchant Bag
Place the good cards you want to take to market in merchant bag.
- Place from one to five goods.
Phase 3: Declaration
Declare to the Sheriff what goods you are delivering to market.
- Only legal (green) goods may be declared.
- Only one kind of good may be declared.
- You must declare the exact number of goods in your merchant bag.
Phase 4: Inspection
The Sheriff can choose to inspect the merchant bags.
- Players can offer bribes to avoid the inspection. In fact, the Sheriff can
threaten an inspection to acquire a bribe.
- Bribes can include gold, legal goods from merchant stand, contraband
from merchant stand, goods in the bag, and promises of future favors. Cards
in hand cannot be used in bribes.
- Sheriff chooses to allow player to pass or to inspect the bag.
- If player is allowed to pass, he acquires all goods to his merchant stand.
Legal goods go face up in appropriate areas. Contraband goes face down.
- If a player is inspected, and had exactly what was declared, the Sheriff pays
player gold equal to the penalty on every legal good in the bag.
- If a player is inspected, and did not have exactly what was declared, he
keeps all truthfully declared goods, and discards all non-truthful goods. He
also pays the Sheriff the penalty amount on those discarded goods.
Phase 5: End of Round
Once all players have been Sheriff twice (three times in a three player
game), the game ends.
- Sheriff token passes to the left.
- All players draw back up to six cards.