River Valley Glassworks
Welcome to River Valley! The beautiful pieces of glass that can be found along the river here have attracted the most entrepreneurial of woodland creatures to set up shop.
In River Valley Glassworks, you play as one of these pioneers, drafting glass from the market of river tiles. To do so, you have to play a piece from your inventory into the river.
Store the glass you pick up strategically in your shop. Depending on how the glass pieces are placed, your score will change drastically. Fill in rows and columns to gain bonus points, but don't draft too many of one type to avoid negative points!
Number of players: 2 - 5
Game duration: 12 mn
Complexity: 2 / 5
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Rules summary
Overview
Collect Glass out of the River and Lake to add to your Glasswork to accumulate sets of the same colour
Turn
On your turn, either Place in the River OR Draw from the Lake
If you Place in River, place a glass from your Satchel that matches the shape of the River segment then collect all the glass from an adjacent segment (thus possibly collecting a different shape) and put those in your Glassworks. The segment collected from is moved to the start of the River and new Glass is added to it from the supply based on the number of stone icons on the adjacent segment
Special Rule: You can place two of the same shape Glass to count as one of any other Glass for the purposes of Place in River, e.g. You can count two triangles as a heart
If you Draw from the Lake, take 4 Glass from the Lake into your Satchel which can hold at most 5 Glass, so any extra are put in your Overflow area, then refill the lake
Glasswork
During the Place in River action, you add the new Glass to your Glasswork display
Each column accommodates a single colour
If the Glass you gathered is NOT present in your Glasswork, add it to the next available column on the lowest row (if you have multiple Glass, you can choose which order they go in at this point)
If the Glass you gathered is present in your Glasswork, add it to the corresponding column, but if there is no room then add it to your Overflow area (negative points)
On the side of your Glasswork, there is a chart to show how common or rare a particular piece of Glass is
Each of the columns give different amount of points for accumulating glass there
Any time you add to your Glasswork OR Overflow area, increase your inventory count by 1
Note: There are more colours in the game than columns, if you collect new colours after you have fully commenced all columns of your Glasswork they will definitely go into Overflow
Game End
When a player has an inventory count of 17 i.e. has obtained 17 pieces of Glass to their Glasswork &/or Overflow, the end game triggers
At this point, all players check their Satchel, if they have less than 3 glass, they draw up to 3 glass straight from the bag blind (NOT the Lake)
Finish the current round, then take one more round
During this time, Draw from Lake is NOT an option anymore
After all have finished, scoring occurs
First, score points for each row based on how many consecutive spaces are filled and score the amount shown on the lower track e.g. if in a row you filled space 123 you gain 4 points, in another you filled 234 you score 0 as you have to fill from space 1 (leftmost)
Secondly, score your 2 highest columns at their highest space filled, if there's a third or more column which is tied, to find the two highest take the two highest leftmost columns of the same height (i.e. if tied, you'll always score the lower scoring tower)
Finally, lose 3 points for each Glass in Overflow
The player with the most points wins!
