Bora Bora

Objective and rounds: The base game supports two to four competitors and lasts six rounds. Each has Phase A dice actions, Phase B people actions, and Phase C assessment. Expansion, buildings, status, priests, and tasks provide points during play; remaining tasks and endgame bonuses follow round six. The highest total wins. The six long-term goals award bonuses rather than ending the game early. The base rulebook gives no solo or cooperative procedure.

Setup and player count: Use seven action tiles for four players, six for three with land/water combined, or five for two with men/women also combined. Display twelve fish tiles, six men, six women, player count plus two tasks, and six jewelry columns. Each player receives a board, twelve huts, six unbuilt buildings, three dice, four priests, one God tile, two God cards, two offerings, and a turn-order tile. Starting scores run from zero to three by order. In reverse order, place a starting hut on an empty building space beside a one-point fish tile and take that region’s material or offering.

Phase A placement: Everyone rolls three dice together, then takes turns placing one and immediately resolving it until all three have been used. A new die on an ordinary action tile must be strictly below its lowest die, regardless of owner. With five and three already there, only one or two is legal. A Blue God permits this placement to be equal or higher, with its offering cost. Fishing is a separate exception: any die may go there for two points without the decreasing-value restriction.

Expansion and people acquisition: Expand along an adjacent land or water path from one of your huts, with path value at most the die value; diagonal expansion is forbidden. Put a hut from your board on the new building space and move any previous hut aside within that region. Each player may have only one hut per region. Take its material or offering and free a people space on your board. To acquire a man or woman, take a displayed tile numbered at most your die and place it in an empty space; do not activate its ability immediately.

Helper exchanges: Spend the die value as exchange points. Tattooing one eligible man, collecting shells with one eligible woman, or gaining one VP costs one point each. An offering, God card, material, or moving a hut on your board to space twelve costs two each. Tattooing advances status; shell collection gives the amount on the woman’s left side. Shifted tiles cannot give their tattoo or shell-collection benefit again. Hut movement here applies only to huts on your player board, not those already on the central board.

Temple, building, and Fire Bonus: Place a priest in a temple space numbered at most the die, shifting existing priests along the arrows and potentially returning the last one to its owner. Build a tile numbered at most the die by paying materials from two horizontally or vertically adjacent ceremony spaces and covering them with that building. Diagonal materials cannot be paired. A building earns ten, seven, or four points according to the round. A new priest or building also gives a Fire Bonus: choose a God card or offering, then choose one status step or one shell.

Phase B people abilities: In turn order, use one man type and one woman type, in either order. Identical tiles of the same sex can combine into one stronger action, but men and women cannot combine and the stronger action cannot split into several actions. Two male Pathfinders can cross one path of up to four, not two paths of up to two. Tiles are neither discarded nor shifted by activation. At most one Green God may be used in Phase B, either doubling one action’s effect or activating an additional different people type.

Phase C status and temple: Score zero to fifteen points according to status position, then return markers to zero as a stack with the leader on top and assign new turn order. Each priest scores one point in rounds one and two, two in rounds three and four, and three in rounds five and six. Most priests earn the round’s God tile; a tie goes to the tied player with the leftmost priest. If there are no priests, remove that tile. Jewelry and tasks then use this new order.

Jewelry and tasks: In the new order, each player may buy one jewelry tile from the current round’s column with shells; skip if declining and discard leftovers. Resolve one of your three tasks for six points, four with a Yellow God replacing one requirement, or surrender one for zero if none can be met. After everyone resolves a task, each chooses a replacement from the display, including in round six. Task quantities are minimums and require showing possessions rather than spending them. Yellow reduces a requirement by one, such as three wood to two; it does not waive the entire task.

God cards versus tiles: Playing a God card normally costs one offering. Two same-color cards plus one offering can provide any God ability, subject to that ability’s phase restrictions. White treats the action effect as six without changing the physical die; Blue instead overrides placement eligibility. A God tile substitutes for any card ability without an offering and is removed after use; an unused tile is worth two points. Red scores the destination fish only when expanding and placing a new hut, at most once per player per region, leaving the fish in place.

Final tasks and ordinary scoring: After round six’s task replacement, resolve the three remaining tasks for six, four, or zero each. Each may use its own Yellow God with its offering cost. Score two per unused God tile and the printed one-to-nine points per jewelry tile. A region’s fish gives one-to-six points only to the player whose hut occupies its building space at game end; huts displaced beside that space do not receive this fish score. Leftover materials, shells, offerings, and God cards do not score directly.

Six goals and ties: Score six points separately for nine completed tasks, six jewelry tiles, all twelve ceremony spaces filled, all six buildings built, huts in all twelve regions, and all twelve people spaces occupied by people. Ceremony spaces may contain materials, buildings, or a mixture; filling them and building all six buildings are separate goals. The all-regions goal includes your huts displaced aside but still in their regions. Highest total wins; tied players use the earlier turn order from the final Phase C.