How to play Paldo Yuram
The loop runs through 24 towns and four corner squares. You start with 300 nyang.
Complete a province and the toll jumps
A town's toll is its price divided by 5. Hold all three towns of one province and it is multiplied by 2. Three cheap Gyeonggi towns beat one costly Hamgyeong town.
- Gyeonggi Suwon, Gwangju, Yeoju
- Chungcheong Chungju, Cheongju, Gongju
- Jeolla Jeonju, Naju, Namwon
- Gyeongsang Gyeongju, Sangju, Jinju
- Gangwon Gangneung, Wonju, Chuncheon
- Hwanghae Hwangju, Haeju, Yeonan
- Pyeongan Pyeongyang, Anju, Uiju
- Hamgyeong Hamhung, Gyeongseong, Gilju
Do not empty your purse
In the founding simulation the pure cash-hoarding bot lost badly to the monopoly-first bot. Buying everything in sight is just as bad, because one toll can empty you. You collect 140 nyang each time you pass Start, so count that cycle.
Drafting the day's rules
You ban 1 of the 6 rule cards and pick 2. Both picks apply to both players.
- Ferry Shortcut Landing on the Ferry, you skip the fare and jump six squares ahead.
- Province Premium Hold all three towns of a province and its toll triples.
- Bargain Towns A town nobody owns sells for eight tenths of its price.
- Changing Hands On a rival's town you may pay double toll and buy the town at its price.
- Inn Reckoning At the Inn you get back half of every toll you have paid so far.
- Double News At the Market you draw two road-news cards instead of one.
Think about the ban first. Province Premium rewards whoever already completed a province. If you are behind, ban that one.
The same day is the same board
The die and the order of the road news both come from the date. Your fellow traveller is deterministic too. Replay a lost board and you can see exactly where it turned. A game ends after 120 moves, and whoever is worth more then wins.
The second player starts with 20 nyang more. It works like komi in Go and offsets the first player meeting empty towns first.
About the name and the place names
The circuit-and-toll format belongs to nobody. Korea's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal on that ground in 2018. Names, place lists and card texts are protected, so this board uses real historical county names from old Korea and every card text was written for this game.