🧠 Draft the right tiles
🍀 A little bit of luck
🏔 Traveil through nature
👀 Constantly look at your opponent board
🖼 Tableau building
🎂8+ 👥2 ⌛15
Solstis is a small smart game made by Bruno Cathala, Corentin Lebrat, and illustrated by Gorobei in which you'll travel through nature during an initiatic ritual.
Climb the mountain, discover the landscape and hope for crossing the path of spirits of the forest in the meantime !
Every tile is unique and put all together, they create a landscape.
The goal for each player is to get more points by creating the biggest continuated aera of the landscape.
One will get more points with the spirits of the forest and by lighting ritual fires on top of the mountain, if these are linked to the ground floor.
We got three type of tiles :
1. the landscape tiles, each of them is unique and has a unique coordinate based on a color (line) and a number (column). If they are all put together they will show a cute little landscape !
2. the rainbow tiles, which are actually joker landscape tiles (replacing any landscape tile)
3. the spirits tiles (made of wood) you can put on your tableay whenever you gather a square of landscape tiles. They grant you either an immediate bonus or a end game scoring advantage.
The setup is pretty easy :
- gather the rainbow tiles on a pile
- gather the spirits tiles on a pile, face down
- shuffle all the landscape tiles facedown
- every player take 3 of them, this is its hand
- we create a river by placing 6 tiles face down and 6 tiles face up on top of the previous ones.
Pick a tile from your hand and compare it to the river of tiles.
Either the color or the number matches with at least one of the tiles there. You'll choose one of them and you'll add both tiles (your hand's and the one from the river) into your own landscape at their specific place (just as it was a puzzle).
If it doesn't match, you'll put your tile into the river and draw a new tile from the draw pile and repeat the process. If it still doesn't match, you'll put it to the river and you'll add a rainbow tile wherever you want in your own landscape.
Complete your hand to always have 3 tiles there.
If 4 tiles are next to each other, designing sort of a square, you'll be able to :
Either pick 2 tiles "spirit of the forest" from the spirits draw pile, add one to your landscape and put the other one on the table face up, or...
Pick an available tile "spirit of the forest" that is face up on the table and add it to your landscape.
When nobody can't get a tile from the river anymore, we count the points !
1 point per tile in your biggest discontinued landscape area (rainbow tiles are worth 0 point)
Each fire that is light up on top and linked to the bottom line are worth 1 point
Every spirit grant one point, some are giving extra points
The winner is the player with most points !
Ready to hike through that initiatic journey ?
Thanks for reading till there ! If you liked what you just read, a small comment or a like is more than welcome !
Keep playing and keep having fun !
n3wbie
n3wbie
