Absurd? Insane?! Supersheep!
A large ovinite meteor hits one of your plots of land. They gain superpowers and fly away. You lose all but one sheep on that lot.
Black Sheep Friday
As sheep stocks crash, people pull money out of their banks to pay their debts. Interest rates increase by 5%.
Bull Sheep
Players may not trade until your next turn.
Bust Ore Boom
Orelando, a major importer of Anthonium Ore switches to eco-friendly EAnthonium Gas. Demand for Anthonium Ore decreases, as does its value.
Don't Give Me That Sheep
No other players collect resources until your next turn.
Fight Ore Flight
Paperweights have made a comeback! Demand for Anthonium Ore soars, and so does its value.
Grub For Money
Two words. Grub Soup. Demand for Grub soars, as does its value.
Herbal Magic Weight Loss
The latest trend in weight loss programs has demand for the Very Green Grass soaring, and thus its value.
I'm Lovin' It
Demand for smiles increases, as does the value of Tender Love and Care.
I Need to Go Take a Sheep
Take another player’s sheep and place it on a tile you control. The sheep taken cannot be the only sheep on a tile and cannot be on a capital tile.
Invasion of the Sheep
Take control of a tile belonging to another player that is adjacent to a tile you already control.
Mad Sheep Disease
The Japanese decide to close their borders due to Ovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, so demand for sheep decreases. Each piece of land contributes 25% less resource points for a bit.
Microsoft Sheep Inc.
Microsoftsheep has bought up the competing sheep buyers, creating a monopsony. Each piece of land contributes 10% less resource points for a bit.
Money For Grub
Heavy tariffs have been imposed as to protect homegrown grubs in many major importer countries. Demand for your Grub drops, sending its value to the bargain bin.
Sheep Mania
Mattel Inc releases a new line of Barbie Sheep, increasing the demand for sheep in general. Each piece of land contributes 10% resources point for a bit.
Sheep Market
Name a resource type. If no other player owns a land of that resource type, you possess a monopoly. Each land you possess of that type contributes 10% more resource points for a bit.
Sheepen Harper's Fiscal Policy
Sheepen Harper decides to decrease the income taxes on the resources of the sheep. Each player receives 10% more resource points for each tile for a while.
Sheeptastic!
Population may be performed twice.
Sheep-Tippers
They strike in the night leaving your sheep a tad tipsy. Each piece of land contributes 20% less resource points for a bit.
Sheep Without Borders
Globalization may be performed with non-adjacent players.
She Loves Me Not Even-petalled flowers dominate the industry. Disheartened fellows have no room for Tender Love and Care. Values jump off the bridge.
Silence of the Sheep
Do not collect resources this turn. Do not herd your sheep.
Supersheep
Exploration may be performed twice.
The Other Side of the Hill
Scientists have produced Extremely Green Grass, causing demand for Very Green Grass to plummet, and its value follows suit.
Xenophobic Sheep
Uncertainty in the US dollar has caused the value of the Canadian dollar to skyrocket. Thus, the effective price of the sheep has increased, so demand decreases. Each player receives 10% less resource points for a bit.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Getting Started
Taking a Turn
- Exploration
- Population
- Industrialization
- Globalization
- Randomization
Resources
Capital
Endgame

Introduction

Sheep is an economics-based board game played by 5 players. The goal of the game is to accumulate four different resources that can be used to buy various forms of capital, which can then be used to accumulate even more of the essential four resources. The winner of Sheep is the player with the highest resources total at the end of the game (see Endgame).

Getting Started

A game of Sheep begins in the "Known World", the 6 by 6 tile grid at the centre of the game board. Players are randomly designated a starting tile within the 6 by 6 grid and a random resource type is assigned to each tile (see Resources). One sheep token is allotted to each player’s respective starting tiles. Each player is then given a total of 1000 resource points, which are distributed randomly amongst the four resource types.

These 1000 resource points are on loan to you from the bank, though, and you start off with a required payment of 2000 in a universal currency. At first, the four resources have a 1:1 exchange rate with that currency, but that may fluctuate with time. Be sure not to wait too long before paying, because there is interest.

Taking a Turn

At the beginning of a turn, the active player collects 100 resource points for each resource tile of each resource type that he or she controls. The player is then allowed to "herd his or her sheep" in a manner of his or her choice (see below).

There are 5 possible way to herd sheep in the game Sheep:

  1. Exploration
  2. Population
  3. Industrialization
  4. Globalization
  5. Randomization

To herd sheep with the Exploration action, a player selects an unexplored tile that is adjacent to a tile he or she already controls and claims it as his own. A random resource type is then assigned to this tile and it starts out with one sheep.

To herd sheep with the Population action, a player selects an already explored resource tile that he or she controls and places an additional sheep counter onto the space. Each sheep awards the player additional resources according to the table below:

Number of
Sheep		Resources
Per Turn
1100
2125
3175
4200

Although these amounts can vary through the effects of some of the cards.

To herd sheep with the Industrialization action, a player selects an already explored resource tile that he or she controls and converts thats tile into the capital tile of his or her choice. The player must meet all requirements for the creation of the new capital tile (see Capital).

To herd sheep with the Globalization action, a player selects another player with whom to trade with. The second player must control at least one tile space that is adjacent to a tile controlled by the player taking the turn. Only resources can be traded.

To herd sheep with the Randomization action, a player selects a card from the top of the "Holy Sheep!" deck of cards and follows the instructions on the card. Not all of these cards will be benign, however, so be wary when you choose to draw a card.

A turn will be limited in the following ways (unless instructed to do otherwise by a Holy Sheep! card):

1 Randomize
1 Populate
1 Explore/Industrialize
1 Globalize

Resources

There are four essential resources in Sheep that can be collected by players through herding their sheep: Very Green Grass Very Green Grass, Grub Grub, Anthonium Ore Anthonium Ore, and Tender Love and Care Tender Love and Care.

Capital

There are four forms of capital that can be purchased in Sheep, which can significantly improve on the resource-collecting capacities of sheep tokens and resource tiles: Very Green Grass Farms, Grub Replicators, Anthonium Ore Mines, and Sheep Online Dating Services. Each piece of capital costs 500 resource points of their respective resource types to build and must be constructed on a resource tile of the appropriate resource type which already holds 4 sheep tokens. A capital tile produces 300 resource points every turn.

Endgame

A game of Sheep ends when all tiles have been explored. The player with the most converted resources wins the game.