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Kohaku is a peaceful koi-pond-building, tile-laying game. Each turn, players will draft both a Koi and Feature tile from the central pond board to place into their personal koi pond.
Score points by surrounding flowers with koi containing matching colors, placing frogs next to koi tiles that have dragonflies, and ensuring that baby koi have a safe place to hide by placing them near rocks.
Butterflies score based on line of sight, so make sure to line them up with similar-colored koi. Turtles and statues bring a sense of balance to your pond and score points more easily, but sometimes aren’t as valuable as some of the other features.
You must carefully plan the placement of your tiles, because once they are in your pond, they can’t be moved! With no restrictions on the shape of your pond, you can build a unique layout to maximize your koi pond’s appeal.
After there are no koi tiles available to refill the central pond board, the game ends. Players will total the points scored by each feature in their pond. The player with the most points wins.
The Sundials mini-expansion offers two new ways to score your koi ponds.
The first is the "Sundials" scoring, which gives each player a sundial with N, S, W, and E directions. The sundial is a feature for your garden and each player is dealt 4 cards to place around it. Each player will score bonus points for correctly positioning koi and/or features in their pond according to the relative direction of their sundial cards. This expansion includes 4 sundials and 13 sundial cards.
The second is the "Hidden Objectives" scoring. Each player will be dealt 2 cards and will keep 1 of them. The chosen card is kept secret from other players and will be revealed at the end of the game. Points earned from the hidden card will be added to the score from your pond. This expansion includes 12 cards.