The players will rebuild the city of medina. They will establish palaces in 4 different colors, help build a market in the old city and rebuild the city wall.

Note: The Brettspielwelt version of medina uses several special rules from The German Team Championship. These are slightly different that the original board game.

With 3 players, each player receives:

• The four domes of his color
• 6 Palace pieces of each color (24 total)
• 4 stables
• 8 inhabitants
• 10 walls

On a players turn he plays any two of his pieces on any empty space on the board, following the placement rules. When only one player is left with pieces, at least one dome must be played per turn.

Palace pieces:

• Players may start a new palace on any empty non-wall space in the city, except they may not place it orthogonally or diagonally adjacent to any palace piece already on the board. This leaves space between all palaces for a street. When players choose to add on to a palace already on the board, they must place it in a space orthogonally adjacent to one of the existing pieces of that palace.
• There is no limit to the size of a palace.
• All players build the different colored palaces together. As long as a palace has no dome, it is incomplete and unclaimed.
• There can be only one incomplete palace of each color.
• When a player places a dome on an incomplete palace, the palace is completed and claimed by that player.
• If there is no legal space orthogonally adjacent to an incomplete palace for a palace piece to be played, then the palace is completed, but is not claimed.
• Players may not add palace pieces to complete palaces.
• When there are no incomplete palaces of a color on the board, a player may begin a new palace of that color. All of the palace building rules listed above apply.
• When all players have claimed a palace of one of the colors, palace pieces of that color may no longer be played.

You get points for the following:

• 1 point for each palace piece in a players palace
• 1 point for each stable next palace
• 1 point for each inhabitant orthogonally adjacent to a palace (either stable or palace piece)
• 1 point for each city wall orthogonally adjacent to a palace (either stable or palace piece)
• Bonus points for tower and largest palace(described below)

Example shown on the left:

• The grey palace of the green player is worth 11 points: 4 (palace) + 2 (inhabitant) + 5(wall)
• The orange palace of the blue player is worth 7 points: 3 (palace) + 3 (market lane) + 1 (wall)
• The black palace of the yellow player is worth 3 points: 3+0+0

In addition, there are 8 bonus tiles(towers and largest palace) see the picture on the left.

Largest Palace Bonuses(if 2 or more player tie for largest palace the one that completed the palace first gets the bonus:

• The player with the largest grey palace gets 1 point.
• The player with the largest black palace gets 2 points.
• The player with the largest brown palace gets 3 points.
• The player with the largest orange palace gets 4 points.

Tower Bonuses:

• The player, who claims the last palace adjacent to the wall connected the tower in the upper left corner, gets 1 point.
• The player, who claims the last palace adjacent to the wall connected the tower in the lower right corner, gets 2 points.
• The player, who claims the last palace adjacent to the wall connected the tower in the upper right corner, gets 3 points.
• The player, who claims the last palace adjacent to the wall connected the tower in the lower left corner, gets 4 points.