Colt Express: Anniversary Edition

• Assemble the 3D trainin the center of the table: as many cars as there are players, plus the locomotive. Each car comes with its interior and roof.
• Distribute the sacks, gems, and briefcasesinto the cars according to the number of players indicated in the booklet.
• Place the Marshal pawnin the locomotive.
• Each player chooses their bandit character—Belle, Cheyenne, Django, Doc, Ghost, Mei, or Tuco—and receives their corresponding 6 Action cards(Doc takes 7), their Character sheetwith their special power, and their starting bag of $250.
• Arrange 4 Round cardsand 1 End cardin order. Each Round card indicates the number of programming turns and special conditions (tunnel, passenger attack, reversed order...).
• Place the bandits in the last two cars according to their turn order.

The game is played in 5 rounds, each with two phases:

Phase 1 — Programming:

• Flip the current Round card: it indicates the number of turns and whether cards are played face-up(actions known to all) or face-down(like in a tunnel — no one knows what you're programming).
• In turn order, each player plays 1 Action card(or 2 in some cases) onto a common central pile— visible to all if face-up, mysterious if face-down. Repeat for as many turns as the Round card indicates.
• At any time, instead of playing a card, a player can exchange 3 cards from their handfor 3 new ones from their draw pile.

Phase 2 — Resolution:

• The cards in the common pile are flipped and resolved in order, from bottom to top. The 6 possible actions are:
  
  Move: move one car inside (1 car) or on the roof (1 to 3 cars).
  Change Level: go up to the roof or down inside.
  Steal: collect loot present in your car. If there is none, the action is wasted.
  Shoot: give a Bulletcard to a bandit in an adjacent car or in line of sight on the roof. Bullets are shuffled into the touched player's deck and dilutetheir future hands of cards.
  Punch: make a bandit move back into an adjacent car, losing a piece of loot to the floor.
  Move the Marshal: move the Marshal one car. If he encounters a bandit, the bandit receives a neutral Bullet and is expelled to the roof.
  
• At the end of each round, a special eventmay be triggered according to the Round card (Marshal's shot, passenger rebellion, bandit movement...). Played cards remain in each player's discard pile and hands are refilled to 6 cards— including bullets — for the next round.

After the 5th round, each player counts the total value of their loot. The bandit who inflicted the most bullet wounds on their opponents receives the title of Sharpshooterand wins an additional $1,000. The richest player wins the game.