In El Gaucho, you take the role of a cattle baron sending your gauchos to the Pampa to collect as much and as stately cattle as possible.
Your gauchos exercise their abilities at the dice rodeo.
The better they do during training, the easier they catch cattle in the field. Be smart and get in your opponents way with mean tricks by snatching the most valuable cattle from under their noses, or swing your lasso to abduct one of their animals.
The goal of the game is to collect sets of cattle tiles and sell them.
Cattle is obtained through a working placement system. Each cattle tile has a value and a race. At home, sort your cattle by race and assemble them in herds only to sell them later for as many Pesos as possible.
A set contains only tiles of the same race, ordered in ascending or descending value. For each race, your cattle tiles are arranged in a line. New cattle tiles are added to the end of the line.
When you add a tile that doesn't match the ordering of the existing set, that means that set ends and a new set is started.
At the end of the round, each completed set of cattle is sold. The game ends when the cattle tiles draw pile runs out.
When this happens, one more round is played, and then all cattle tiles are sold. The player who made the most money wins the game.
