With a prestige card you can reach three to eight prestige points extra if you meet the corresponding condition at the end of the game; otherwise it is worthless. Some prestige cards require the possession of a fixed number of things; in this case, the reward is a fixed score. Others require that you have the most of something: you get the mentioned number of prestige points when you have more of the special thing than any other, and the number in brackets when you have to share the first place. You have to have at least one of these things, even if no one else owns that. There are 14 different prestige cards:
Bonus cards increase the number of works of a single work, then they are consumed. They give one or two additional points per thing that is present at the moment of publication of the work. There are 20 different bonus cards: