RULES
Rules for playing games of Pilferville can be found here.

ENCOUNTER TOKENS AND ENTRY ARROWS
This page contains one sheet of encounter tokens.  Print FOUR of these pages onto posterboard and cut them out with scissors, paper cutter, or rotary cutter.  Then mix them up, flip them down, and place them on your board and let the exploring begin!  Use the arrows to show where your animals have broken into a building.

PRINTABLE BOARD TILES AND STARTING SPACES
This page contains one of each tile.  There are three types of tiles- you'll need one center park, four road corners, and four straight roads. print each tile as large as 1 sheet of paper.  You can mount them to chipboard (thick cardboard) using any spray adhesive.  Then cut the boards out with a heavy duty paper cutter or a sharp knife and straight edge.  Then you can assemble a whole variety of boards using the tiles!  The standard board setup is a 3x3 tile board with road around the outside.  Check out the Scenarios page (link below) for other board setup ideas, or invent your own!
You will also need starting spaces.  These can be saved, printed, mounted and cut out just like the boards.

SCENARIOS
This page contains different scenarios to try out.  Scenarios may have different board layouts to try out, different goals to strive for, and special rules to keep games interesting!

CRITTERS
This page contains printable critters and townsfolk.  But don't settle for cheap cardboard, when you can buy beautiful plastic figures instead!  

• SCHLEICH Makes beautiful animal figurines and have an impressive variety to choose from, including American critters.  Price ranges from $3 to $8 a figure.  Most toy shops carry their product, and they're easy to buy online too.
  
• US TOY carries a cheap alternative for most of the critters used in Pilferville: look for their $6 Woodland Toy Animals set, which includes enough components for 1 to 2 players each, including squirrel, boar, fox, wolf, and buck figures.
• If you have trouble finding a particular animal, feel free to substitute. Instead of Boar, you might substitute a Badger or a Wolverine.  Instead of a Buck, try a Moose or a Bear.  I use small Otter figures to represent my Weasels (they're hard to find!).
  
• Although Pilferville uses North American critters, there's no reason you couldn't substitute critters from a different continent!  Get creative and find some entertaining alternatives for each type of animal.
  

Mount your figures to bases for added stability.  Paint the bases in your team color so it is easy to tell your figures apart from the other players.  For bases, try using "Woodsies" brand wooden rectangles- cheap, sturdy, easy to paint, and a variety of sizes to fit your different critters.  Most craft shops (like Michael's) carries them.  Or make your own, from sheet plastic or cardboard.

TOWNSFOLK
This page contains printable critters and townsfolk.  But don't settle for cheap cardboard, when you can buy beautiful plastic figures instead! 

• Constructive Playthings has excellent sets of townsfolk called Pretend Professionals.  Each set includes 12 figures, more than you need really, for about $30 a set.  I bought set #2 because it was on sale, and included a Segway riding security guard!
• SCHLEICH also makes nice townsfolk figures, but somewhat limited variety and a bit pricey at $5 each.
• Just about any action figures can work for townsfolk in a pinch!  We used Star Wars figures for our test games.  Make sure to attach some kind of base to them so they don't fall over.

DICE
You'll need ordinary 6-sided dice to play Pilferville.  I like to have 4 dice in each color for each player, and a neutral color for townsfolk, so they don't get mixed up.
You'll also need a DIRECTION die for the townsfolk's random move.  I made my own by drawing arrows on a blank 6-sided die.  Draw an arrow on 5 sides (try to mix up the directions they point).  On the sixth side, draw a question mark.  When this is rolled, the player with the lowest score gets to choose what direction they move!  A Printable direction die will be coming soon.

POINTS COUNTERS
You'll need some way to keep track of your score.  You could just write it down, but it's more fun to collect something, like pennies or jelly beans or nuts!  (Just don't eat your winnings before the game is over).  I like to use glass pebbles (available from any craft store).