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Die Macher
Suggested Variant Rules
A new, heavily-revised edition of Die Macher appeared in 1997 with several good new ideas. Owners of the older edition may like to apply these ideas to their play of the original game:

• Turn Order
  Turn order is now determined by players writing down their bids for the right to choose the turn order. The high bidder pays the amount written -- others pay nothing. The winner decides which player will go first for all actions in the turn; the rest of the turn order is determined in clockwise fashion.

• Party Conferences
  Instead of holding Party Conferences, now the players hold a secret hand of 3 party program cards. Before the Shadow Cabinet Phase, there is a Party Program Commission Conference Phase in which each player in turn may discard up to 3 of these cards and receive new ones from the deck. From these cards, during this phase the player may trade out one of his existing policies with one of the ones in his hand.

• Shadow Cabinet
  
  • Players do not discard any Shadow Cabinet ministers at the start of the game.
  • Only 1 minister may be placed in a region per turn.

• Doubler
  A doubler is available for each region in play. (Use a coin or other token to denote this.)

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Sat May 8 12:04:27 PDT 1999

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