Mosaic: A Story Of Civilization - How To Play

UPDATED in this newly released version of the video:
1. In the "SET UP: Trade Goods Tokens" chapter, removed an extra token that was in an illegal location on the board, and should not have been there.
2. In the "SET UP: Make the Tax & Tariff Deck" chapter, added the instruction that an equal number of Tax and Tariff cards should be used when constructing the Tax & Tariff deck. Previously, this instruction was missing.
3. In the "SET UP: Make the Build Deck" chapter, corrected the instruction for adding the Scoring card to the Build deck. Previously, it was instructed to split the deck in thirds. This has been changed to splitting the deck in half.

*NOTE:* At 15:02, Chaz accidentally uses 7 Food to purchase a card that costs 12 Food. (One of his Fish tokens, worth 5 Food, fell off the table right before he slid them into place, and he didn't notice the error.) Five more units of Food than what are shown on-screen should have been used to purchase that card.

00:00 Intro
00:41 SET UP
00:52 Differences for 2-3 Player Games
01:10 Cache Tokens
01:32 Fish Tokens
01:44 Trade Goods Tokens
02:43 Currencies
02:53 Wonder Tiles
03:05 Golden Age Tiles
03:10 Civilization Achievement Tiles
03:23 Government Tiles
03:34 Make the Population Deck
04:08 Make the Tax & Tariff Deck
04:48 Make the Build Deck
05:15 Player's Starting Items
06:06 Start Player Token
06:13 Select Leader Card
06:35 Deal Starting Technologies
07:02 Make the Technologies Deck
07:30 Draft Starting Technologies
08:07 Place Starting Cities
09:02 Gain Leaders' Starting Benefits
10:05 Activating Starting Technologies
11:46 ACTIONS
12:19 Technology Action
14:22 Working Action
14:54 Population Action
15:35 Build Action
19:45 Wonder Action
21:34 Military Action
23:09 Government Action
24:23 Tax & Tariff Action
25:40 Civilization Achievements & Golden Ages
26:28 Leader Special Abilities
26:41 Empire Scoring Phase
29:05 End-Game Triggers
29:51 Final Scoring
31:25 Thanks For Watching!

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[KillerJoe]

Chaz, wow, I Just love how clear and articulate you are in your explanation of Mosaic. No assumptions from you whatsoever and though some may see that as redundant or boring I think it’s great. I just feel bad Rodney only managed to score 3 points at the end of the game (lol). You are a great addition to this channel. Cheers!

[WatchItPlayed]

UPDATED! The following items are now in this corrected version of the tutorial:

1. In the "SET UP: Trade Goods Tokens" chapter, removed an extra token that was in an illegal location on the board, and should not have been there.

2. In the "SET UP: Make the Tax & Tariff Deck" chapter, added the instruction that an equal number of Tax and Tariff cards should be used when constructing the Tax & Tariff deck. Previously, this instruction was missing.

3. In the "SET UP: Make the Build Deck" chapter, corrected the instruction for adding the Scoring card to the Build deck. Previously, it was instructed to split the deck in thirds. This has been changed to splitting the deck in half.

[FrankMinogue]

Another game I must have. I’m going to be sleeping on the couch for a month. This looks absolutely amazing. Excellent video, Chaz, even if you did cheat and score way more points than Rodney……. Now I need a tutorial on how to convince my wife we need another game…..LOL

[teejleague]

I think it's very, very impressive when a designer can take something that is usually humongously difficult to grasp and distill it down into a much easier game. I've heard this game does a great job of simplifying civ game mechanics & concepts.

[teejleague]

I have heard so many good things about this game's accessibility and playability. You do a great job teaching it, too, Chaz!!!

[ShinjiSixteen]

31:24 That nervous side eye is **incredible**
And, as always, fantastic video and walkthrough!

[EgeTunca]

This is amazing, so clean and precise. Took me just around 15min on x2 speed. Thanks a lot for such an awesome how to play.

[Ruloathesome]

One of the best rules vids I have seen thank you

[nicholasszegedi]

I like how u did Rodney dirty on his final score.. lol 😅... you guys both do a great Job teaching a game!!! Ty 😊

[timu.]

Thank you so much for this. I got this game from Santa (wife) and can't wait to play it. I'll read the rulebook but these videos are always a leg up. BTW, I couldn't tell if you were saying cavalry or calvary but it's cavalry for sure. Common mistake.

[thescientistsalarian]

Thanks for the video 👍
It really helped me catch on quickly.

[FrankMinogue]

Thanks, Chaz. I got this for Christmas. This was really helpful. Man, Rodney really didn't do very well. Maybe he should have watched your video first!!.

[BarryDoubletBoardGames]

Still can't get use to Chaz not saying "welcome to Pair of Dice Paradise" 😂

Excellent video, as usual. Thanks Chaz!

Side note: When I saw the video thumbnail, my first thought was "Oh, that beard looks good on Rodney. Makes him look more serious." 😅

[FostertheMeeple]

Thanks for this video!! We are going to try and set up to play today!

[JamesBrohard]

I played Terraforming Mars a few weeks ago, and I thought that game was complicated... Tonight my friends want to play this. I think they hate me. Thanks for the tutorial video!

[DualistGamer]

Really helpful tutorial, thank you, clear and well delivered. Rodney needs to watch his back… or after the scores, maybe the other way around?

[TyvanTV]

I’ll be glad when I’m off board game buying restrictions so I can get this beauty!

[hunorheim]

I have the game, I played a ton, but I still don't understand this Trade Goods Token setup... I use a house rule and just use a draw bag to fill up the spaces with face up tokens instantly, after that I remove the X tokens and it's all set. Why bother flipping the tokens face down, then flip everything face up.

[hanak]

Very good explanation, thx for this. Keep up the good work. :)