Each round begins with rolling the Sic Bo Die, which determines the nature of the round's match. There are two possible outcomes: Lowest and Highest.

Each player then draws 6 cards from their deck.

Starting from the first player, each player Slips up to 3 cards from their hand in order (playing them face-down in front of them). The number of cards slipped determines how large their final Standing is, and how many action rounds a player may take.

Slipping: Each Recruit card has a Stake value shown at the top of the card. To Slip a card, place 1 card from your hand face-down into your Slip Area. Slipped cards remain hidden until revealed.

At the end of the Match, add together the Stakes of all cards in your Slip Area — this is your Standing. Depending on the Sic Bo Result, either the highest or lowest Standing wins the Match.

The player holding the First Player Marker must make the opening of chips equal to the current timeline. This is called a Small Blind. The next player clockwise must at least double that amount — this is called a Big Blind.

Starting from the third player and continuing clockwise, players take turns choosing one of the following actions:

Check: Reveal a card from your Slips, then pass the action without adding Chips to your Pot. You may only Check if no player has Raised during the current Betting Round.

Call: Reveal a card from your Slips, then add Chips to your Pot until your total matches the current highest bet.

Raise: Reveal a card from your Slips, Call the current highest bet, then add at most the current Maximum Bidding of Chips to your Pot.

Fold: Withdraw from the Match and put all cards from your Slips (cards revealed from do not count as Slips) back into your hand.

Wild Stakes: When you reveal a card with Stake , draw the top card of your deck and attach it. The card's Stake becomes that of the drawn card. If the drawn card is also , repeat until a non- value is revealed. If you can't draw, the stake is treated as 0.

Action Cards: During the Betting Phase, you may play cards with the icon face-up into your discard pile to gain their effects, before or after choosing your action.

A Betting Round ends when all slipped cards have been revealed, or only one player remains in the Match. Remaining players then move Chips from their personal Pots into the Global Pot.

Starting with the first player and continuing clockwise, each player adds together the Stake of all revealed cards into their Standing.

Depending on the Sic Bo Result, the player with the highest or lowest Standing becomes the Leading Player.
The Leading Player must add all Bust values on their cards to their Standing.
All other players may add all Cover values on their cards to their Standing.
If two or more players share the leading Standing, they can't add Bust or Cover.

After all effects are resolved, the player with the highest or lowest final Standing (as determined by the Sic Bo Result) wins the match.

The winner gains the reward shown on the Timeline and takes all chips in the pot. Players gain potions according to ranking: second place gets 2 Potions, third place gets 1. Folded players rank by fold order — latest to fold ranks highest.

All won chips except the winner's bet are converted into victory points and cannot be used again in later rounds. If there is a tie, no Timeline reward is given; tied players take back their bets and split the remaining pot evenly.

Award cards: If a reward includes award cards, draw from the Award deck equal to the number indicated, and keep one of them — or keep none and gain 2 Potions instead. If you picked a Recruit, put it into your Soul pile.

Starting from the first player and continuing clockwise, each player may Recruit any number of times. Recruiting costs Souls.

Spending Souls: Play any number of cards into your discard. You gain Souls equal to the value shown at the bottom of each card played this turn. You may pool Souls from multiple sources to acquire a card.

Potions: A lasting resource. One potion counts as one Soul and can be used for Recruits.

You may acquire as many cards as you can afford this turn. Unused Souls are lost.

Recruiting: Acquire any card in the faction rows. Cost is shown at the top right of the card. Put acquired Recruits into your discard pile, then refill from that faction deck.

All players shuffle all cards except the Hell pile into their deck.

If the Timeline Marker is at the end of the Timeline, the game ends, and the player with the most Chips wins.

Otherwise, move the Timeline Marker forward by one space and begin the next round.