El Grande

Scoring — after rounds 3, 6, and 9, in four steps

1. ① Choose a region with the secret disk — everyone secretly picks a destination region for their Castillo troops, then all reveal simultaneously.
2. ② Score the Castillo — before the troops move out, score the Castillo's contents by majority.
3. ③ Move — send each player's Castillo Caballeros to the region shown on their disk.
4. ④ Score the regions — score all 9 regions by majority, one at a time, in the order shown on the round track.

Ties bump the rest down a rank — If two players tie for the most, both score the 1st-place value and the 2nd-place value is skipped entirely. Rulebook example: in a 6/4/2 region, red has 4, blue has 3, and yellow and green each have 2 — tied for what would be 3rd. Both yellow and green instead get the bumped 4th-place value: 0 points.

• When the King's Region is scored, its 1st place also receives a +2 King's Bonus (none on a tie for first).
• Holding 1st place in your own home region adds a +2 home-region bonus (none on a tie for first).
• Grandes are never counted toward any majority — they only mark whose home region it is.

Matches the scoring calculator above — The per-round region scoring calculator at the top of this page simply accumulates whatever totals you enter at each scoring (rounds 3, 6, 9, or 2, 4, 6 in the short game). It does not add the King's Bonus or home-region bonus automatically — include them yourself using the rules above.

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