Calico
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Sourced from: https://jmo.name/games
Player Aid Author: Jarrod Moore
Description
Sew a quilt, collect buttons, attract cats!
- Randomly select one cat scoring tile from each group (grouped by number of dots on the scoring tiles)
- Place the cat tokens matching the selected cat scoring tiles near the scoring tiles
- Place 2 randomly selected black + while patch tiles under each cat scoring tile
- Shuffle all coloured patch tiles and place them within reach of all players to form the patch tile supply
- Place button tokens and button scoring tile in reach of all players
- Give each player:
- A quilt board
- 6 design goal tiles matching their chosen quilt board colour
- Each player shuffles their 6 design goal tiles, randomly selects 4 of them and from those 4 revealed tiles, chooses 3 of them to place on the design goal tile areas on their quilt board
- Each player draws 2 patch tiles to form their starting hand
- Reveal 3 patch tiles to form the tile market
- Choose one of the two tiles in your hand to play to any open space on your quilt board
- Take any cat tokens or button tokens that you are now eligible to receive
- From the 3 patch tiles in the tile market, take one of them into your hand
- Refill the market with a tile from the patch tile supply
- Each cat has a desired group size or shape that they require for you to attract them to your quilt
- When you form the desired group on your board, place a cat token for the corresponding cat and place them on a patch tile in the group that you have formed
- You may use the tiles printed on the edges of the quilt board in these groups
- For cats looking for a group shape, the shape can be in any orientation, not just the one printed on the cat scoring tile
- Each pattern area will only attract one cat. You cannot score a group that is touching a previously scored group of the same pattern
- The game ends when all players have filled their quilt boards with patch tiles
- The player with the most points wins
- Ties are broken by most button tokens, otherwise the victory is shared
- You score the number points in the blue circle if you surround the tile with either colours OR patterns that can be grouped into the groups written on the tile
- You score the number points in the yellow circle if you surround the tile with either colours AND patterns that can be grouped into the groups written on the tile
- You only score either the points in the blue circle or the yellow circle, never both
- Otherwise, you score no points for the design goal tile
- Colours: all different colours
- Patterns: all different patterns
- Colours: three different pairs of colours
- Patterns: three different pairs of patterns
- Colours: two different 3-of-a-colours
- Patterns: two different 3-of-a-patterns
- Colours: one 4-of-a-colour and a pair of colours
- Patterns: one 4-of-a-pattern and a pair of patterns
- Colours: one 3-of-a-colour, one pair of colours and a single colour
- Patterns: one 3-of-a-pattern, one pair of patterns and a single pattern
- Colours: two different pairs of colours and two different single colours
- Patterns: two different pairs of patterns and two different single patterns
- Score the points written on the cat tokens on your quilt
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