Mandala Stones: Harmony
Mandala Stones: Harmony Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Components
- 12 New Stones
- 1 rulebook
Setup Changes
Follow the setup from the base game, step by step, and only apply changes to the following sections of the setup:
Mandala Board Setup
After placing the Mandala board on the gaming table, place each of the 12 new Stones on each of the Victory Point spaces.
Playing the Game Changes
This expansion comes with minimal, yet significant changes to the game play. Use the rules of play of the base game, with the following exceptions:
Score
As you place the Stones you used for scoring on the board, they may end up covering spaces in which the New Stones are already present. Instead of covering a New Stone, take it away from the Mandala board and place it next to your player board. You may choose to:
- either keep the New Stone, and in this case follow the rules detailed in the following paragraphs,
- or ignore the New Stone. If you choose this option, return the New Stone back to the game box and gain the depicted amount of Victory Points, as per base game rules.
After finishing placing Stones on the Mandala board, you may have one or more New Stones next to your player board. Place those immediately onto existing towers on your player board.
When placing New Stones on your player board, you must follow these rules:
- You must place New Stones on existing towers.
- You are not allowed to start new towers with New Stones.
- A tower may never be higher than 4 Stones (including New Stones).
- You are allowed to place a New Stone directly on another New Stone, as long as you do not break any other of the above rules.
If you are not able to place all the New Stones you received, simply return the excess New Stones to the game box, they will not be needed for the rest of the game.
IMPORTANT! When you place scored Stones onto the Mandala board, you must always start with New Stones, to avoid any confusion between New Stones present on the Mandala board at the start of the game, and all the Stones placed on the Mandala board as part of a Score action.
For the purpose of Scoring a color, each New Stone in your towers momentarily takes the color of your choice (same one for all New Stones). Therefore, when you Score a color, you may choose to include any New Stone staying atop any of your towers, but this is not mandatory.
Example:
In the image above, you may choose to score purple, as there are multiple towers with a purple top Stone, but you may also choose to score yellow, as the New Stone at the top can assume a color of your choice. You choose to score purple, and you also choose to treat the New Stone as a purple Stone. You score and receive the following:
- Tower 1: 3 Victory Points (as you have towers of heights 1,2, and 3)
- Tower 3: 4 Victory Points (height 3 tower)
- Tower 4: 4 Victory Points (height 3 tower)
- Tower 5: 4 Victory Points (as there are 3 different colors in this tower)
Your combined score is 15 Victory Points!
Having scored 15 Victory Points, you remove the purple Stone from the top of each of the towers you scored and place them on the Mandala board. Remember that you treated the New Stone as a purple Stone, therefore you must include it in this procedure (placing it first, as shown with [1] above). Placing the Stones one by one, your fourth Stone would cover a New Stone on the Mandala Board (as shown with [2]). You take that New Stone and place it near your player board.
After placing all the Stones on the Mandala board, you choose to place your New Stone atop Tower 1.
New Stones and Goals
For purposes of scoring Objective cards, the New Stones are considered to have their own (fifth) color, as well as their own pattern.