How to Play

Burgle Bros.

1-4 players 45-90 min 7.4 Board Game Geek Rating

In this cooperative heist game, players form a thieving crew infiltrating a three-story secure building. Navigate 4x4 tile floors while avoiding guards who steal stealth tokens when encountered. Lose all three tokens and the mission fails. Victory requires cracking all three floor safes and reaching the rooftop helicopter escape route together.

Published 2015

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

Prepare building tiles

Separate the 3 safe tiles and 3 stair tiles from the other 42 room tiles

Create floor decks

Shuffle the 42 room tiles and divide them into 3 decks of 14 tiles each

Add required tiles

Place 1 safe tile and 1 stair tile into each of the three decks

Build the floors

Shuffle each deck, then lay out each deck face-down in a 4x4 grid to form 3 floors

Place walls

Position 8 walls between room tiles on each floor according to the scenario diagram

Organize patrol cards

Sort patrol cards into 3 decks by floor number (marked in bottom right corner)

Shuffle patrol decks

Shuffle each patrol deck and place face-down near its corresponding floor

Adjust for player count

Discard patrol cards without looking based on player count:

Set up guards

Place a guard figure and a red guard die near each patrol deck

Set guard speed

Set each guard die to show:

Prepare card decks

Separate and shuffle the event, tool, and loot decks; place face-down near play area

Choose characters

Each player randomly selects a character card with special abilities

Distribute components

Give each player their character piece and 3 stealth tokens

Reveal first patrol card

Draw the top patrol card from Floor 1 and place the Floor 1 guard on that tile

Choose entry point

Select any tile on Floor 1 to enter the building; flip it face-up and place a stair token on it as the entrance

Set guard destination

Draw the next Floor 1 patrol card and place the Floor 1 guard die on that tile

Determine first player

The player who most recently withdrew money from a bank goes first

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

Perform four actions

Complete up to 4 actions from the available options in any order; actions may be repeated

Peek at a tile

Reveal an adjacent room tile without entering; the tile stays face-up permanently

Move to a tile

Move to an adjacent tile; cannot move diagonally or through walls

Handle stop tiles

Cannot enter; remain in your previous tile

Handle alarm tiles

Trigger the alarm when entering; the guard investigates

Hack a computer

Add 1 hack token to the computer room tile you occupy (maximum 6 tokens)

Add die to safe

Spend 2 actions to place 1 die on the safe tile you occupy (maximum 6 dice)

Crack the safe

Roll all dice on your safe tile to match combination numbers

Collect safe rewards

When all 6 combination numbers are covered:

Use tools

Play tool cards as free actions during your turn for special abilities

Trade items

Exchange tools or loot with players on your tile as a free action

Move between floors

Use revealed stairs to peek or move to the corresponding tile on the floor above

Check for events

If you used 2 or fewer actions, draw and resolve an event card

Move the guard

After your actions and events, move the guard on your current floor

Guard reaches destination

Draw next patrol card and place guard die on indicated tile

Lose stealth

Discard 1 stealth token when:

Handle alarms

When triggered, place alarm token and guard die on that tile

Activate new floor guards

When moving to a floor without a guard:

Reshuffle patrol deck

When patrol deck is empty:

Winning

How to claim victory.

Victory condition

Open all 3 safes, collect all loot, and escape through the top floor stairs

Escape the building

Once your team has all loot, spend 1 action at the top floor stairs to exit

All must escape

All players must reach the roof to win

Defeat by capture

Lose if any player must discard a stealth token but has none remaining

Team loss

If one player is captured, the entire team loses

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On Your Turn

Winning

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