Background: Life can be hard for a prospector in the Klondike: frozen soil, bitter weather, and slim pickings in the ground. The only respite is a trip to Dawson City for hot soup, sharp tools, and top-grade hospitality. As frontier hoteliers, you and your opponents seek to provide your guests with everything they need, at prices they can afford. So build your hotels, fire up the hearths, and dish out some comfort in the cold.

Cold Comfort is a city-building game of hotel management in the Yukon. Players will earn money by hosting customers in their hotels, and score points by building up neighborhoods and keeping them occupied.

This game is new, so we recommend you should only try it if you like giving feedback and watching things change quickly. Version 3.0 has significant changes, so please give it a read. You will need a few different components from prior versions, but the cards and tiles are mostly the same. See notes below.

Here are the files you’ll need to make your own copy:

• Cold Comfort City Deck (24 tiles, 3 pages, V 1.7)

• Cold Comfort Hotels and Characters (2 Pages, V 1.7)

• Updated Characters with Silver Dollar Sides (Optional, 1 Page, V 3.0)

• Cold Comfort Rules Version 3.0, 5/21/24

The City Deck contains 24 tile cards that are roughly 2” x 3”, three pages of art. The Hotels and Characters are smaller pieces that fit on two pages. You can print these out on full-sheet labels, and affix them to cardboard from a cereal box, or matte board, or whatever thick cardstock you might have on hand. If your dice are larger than 12mm, you can also print these files slightly larger to accommodate them.

The newest version of the Character cards requires a Silver Dollar on one side, which you can just draw on the cards you already have. Or you can print updated character cards using the optional 3.0 file.

In addition to the components above, you will also need 36 small dice, money (tiny poker chips are best), one marker designating the leader, and a way to keep score.

• Video: How to Make Tile Cards

• Discount Poker Shop, our source for these great little chips

If you play the game, please send us your feedback. We think it’s coming along nicely but it also has a long way to go.