Copycat Rules

Goal: to earn the most Victory Points and be elected the new President by efficient use of your campaign
Workers and Action cards.
End of Game: At the end of the round when one of the three following conditions occur:
A player has 95 or more Victory Points (VPs)
A players has bought the last Doctorate card
The 11th round is complete
Tips About card/Office Color
In general, cards of certain colors can be used
during certain phases, as listed below.
Round Overview - 4 Phases: Card Color/Phase/Purpose
1. PLANNING: drawing cards and determining player order Blue - 2 (draw cards)
2. ACTION: placing campaign workers in offices and using Actions Purple - 2 (recruit temporary Campaign Workers)
3. BUYING & SUCCESS: buying cards and taking Victory Points Green - 3 (gain Victory Points)
4. CLEAN-UP: Clearing the game board and preparing for the next Yellow - 3 (buy cards)
round. Grey - Special
Red - None (clog up your deck)

1. Phase 1: PLANNING 3. Phase 3: BUYING & SUCCESS

a. Each player draws 5 cards from their deck.
b. Each player selects one of their 5 cards to use for player
order determination and places it face down in front of
them. Each card has a value in the top left corner. The
player whose selected card has the highest number will go
first, and the other players order will follow in numeric value
order. If players tie for the same value, their relative player
order from the previous round is switched.
c. When all have selected, players reveal their cards and the
player order is assigned for the round.
d. Players discard their selected card to the Clipboard in
front of them. cards in the Clipboard are placed 90 degree
(horizontal) to denote them as being in the Clipboard. You
cannot use cards in the Clipboard for the rest of this round.
2. Phase 2: ACTION
a. In current player order, players take turns placing
Campaign Workers one-by-one in an empty Office.
i. Each Office can have one total Campaign Worker.
ii. If there are any Victory Point Markers (Green
squares) on the Office where you place a Campaign
Worker, take those VP Markers.
iii. You can play cards and/or use any Actions of Offices
where you have a Campaign Worker before or after
placing each Campaign Worker.
1. When you use a Campaign Worker, place it on its
side to show it has been used that turn.
2. When you use a card, place it in your player area
(in front of you) to show its been used.
b. Once all players have no Campaign Workers left to play
and cannot play more cards or use Offices, Phase 3
begins.
a. In current player order, players play all cards remaining
in their hand by placing them in their player area.
i. If you have a Campaign Worker in an Office with
a Buy Action, you may Buy one or more cards
from the Street and add it/them to your player area:
Total money from cards youve played + any
virtual money from Officers where youve
used a Campaign Worker.
Note that cards in the Street may have an
additional cost to Buy (if there is a +number
shown below it).
If there are any Red cards left of a card you
Buy, you must take those too.
Any money left over after Buying cards is
forfeited.
ii. Total all Victory Points gained from cards youve
played, Offices with your Campaign Workers, and
any VP Markers you may have collected and move
that many spaces along the VP track. Return any
VP Markers to the pool next to the game board.
4. Phase 4: CLEAN-UP
a. In each Office with no Campaign Worker, place a VP
Marker.
b. Players move cards from their Clipboard and player
area to their discard pile.
c. Players remove their Campaign Workers from the
board. Any temporary Campaign Workers used are
returned to the pool next to the game board.
d. The next card from the Office card deck is placed in the
appropriate column of the building.
e. Remove un-purchased Action cards from the Street
according to the number of players.

Other Rules
Actions from a card or Office take precedence over other stated rules.
If an Action allows you to do multiple things (such as Buy 2 cards), you can choose to do fewer than the maximum, if
desired.
You can combine Actions in any way, as appropriate, to benefit you.
Anything (cards, Campaign Workers, Offices) that can be doubled (from an Action), may only be doubled twice per turn.
If something (Action, money, VPs, etc.) is doubled then doubled again, it is tripled, not quadrupled!