Yes

Yes, you can always opt to not take the full value of your action.

No

If you run out of potion tokens in game, use another token or coin to represent potion tokens until you can replace them with the correct token.

Yes

If you are the first player to pass over or stop on a bonus token, pick it up and gain the benefit. No other player can gain its benefit.

Newton!

Sir Isaac Newton, the game's namesake.

No

Leave the development tile on the path of the board where you acquired it, and instead pick up the actual tile from the stacks in the corners and add it to your desk.

No

Place a travel cube on the ancient land when you stop there, do not pick up the tile.

No

Place a travel cube on the University tile when you stop there, do not pick up the tile.

No

You must stop on a special space if you wish to gain the benefit.

Yes

Even if you've reached the last space on the work track, you still gain a coin for every value of the work action performed.

No limit

You may take a quick action whenever you like during your turn, as many times as you're able or desire.

See Quick Actions

The summary tiles reflect all of the Quick Actions available to you. See that section for clarification.

Yes

Newton is played over six rounds, so even though you don't have space for a sixth card under your desk, you'll still play the sixth round.

Shared victory

All tied players share the victory!

No

Drafted master cards at the beginning of the game are not put into play until you activate a master space on the board(s).

No.

The shape is only to aid colorblind players tell the difference between the decks.

Yes

Always remove from the top-left to lower-right. Just like reading.

No

Each player board has a different starting action on the desk.

No

Only one cube per color is allowed per space.

One

Additional non-starting students are held near your player board for use later.

No

You can have as many action cards in your hand as you want.

When played

Most action cards provide some additional benefit when part of your desk. These benefits are immediately available to you.

No

Action cards in the display are only replaced at the end of player's turn.

End Round Phase

Added income or medicine tiles placed on corners of your bookshelf score during the end of round phase. These do not correspond to rows or columns of your bookshelf, so you don't need to complete either to score these tiles.

No

Students may only move forwards along a path, never backward.

6

Each player gets 6 starting action cards in their player color, one of each type.

No

Leave the tile behind for others players, but take the association action (or token/s).

No

Leave the city tiles behind for the next player, but take the associated action (or token).

No

Leave the tile on the board for other players to activate, but take the associated action (or token).

No

If you run out of coins during a game, use another token until coins are spent and can be distributed correctly.

No

Action cards will be replaced at the end of each round.

No.

No, they are simply removed from your supply, allowing faster access to the pile bonuses. Do not place them in your bookshelf.

Immediately.

Whenever you see the lightning bolt, you gain the effect posted immediately.

No.

Any tile or token that isn't a bonus tile stays in the space. Take the action granted by the tile, but leave the tile there.

On an empty ! space

The edge of the bookshelf has several empty "!" spaces. These are where the income tiles go.

Free spaces.

These spaces filled in with books already do not need to be filled in by the player, they're free spaces, and count as already having been filled in.

They stay there.

Once you've reached the last space on a path with one of your students, they may not go backwards or leave that space for the rest of the game. You'll want to start a new student on the track if you want to progress down a different path.

No.

Students may never move backwards along a path. Only forwards.

Take no action

If you run out of action cards, you cannot take any actions! Do whatever you can to make sure you don't run out of action cards before the end of the round.

Yes

Any action with a value given by a master card can be shortened at will, but cannot be made larger.

No.

No, they are there to assist players with colorblindness.

Yes.

Students may freely move down the same path as another student of the same (or different) color(s). However, the last space in a path cannot be occupied by two students of the same color.

Yes

Basic Actions have a value of how many symbols of that action (including the card just played) are present on the player's desk. The value of the action taken can be this value or lower, but never higher (unless specified by a card effect).

No.

The spending of coins to increase the value of an action may only be done to increase the value of a basic action.

No.

The increase basic action value ability can only be used once per turn.

No.

All the Basic Actions which are played as an effect of an Invention tile must be of a value equal (or inferior) to that indicated on the tile. You cannot increase the action’s value by adding the number of the same symbols visible on your desk, or by spending 2 Coins.

Anything you want

When you gain a "?" specialization tile, you can take any income or development tile you wish, and add it to your study board. Once chosen, it cannot be changed.