Harmonies

Take and place: Once per turn, take all three tokens from one central-board space and place them on your board. Use empty spaces or the permitted tree, building and mountain stacks; never insert tokens underneath existing tokens or cover an animal.

Stacking combinations: A tree is a green token over zero, one or two brown tokens; a mountain is one to three gray tokens; a building is a red token over one red, brown or gray token. Blue water and yellow fields cannot be stacked.

Animal cards: Take at most one faceup Animal card per turn, with at most four unfinished cards at a time. Fill its spaces with cubes when taking it. Match the habitat and exact heights, then move the lowest cube onto its indicated unoccupied token; this optional action can be repeated during your turn.

Landscape scoring: Trees and mountains score by height, but isolated mountains score nothing. Each connected field of at least two yellow tokens scores five points. A building scores five only with at least three different top-token colors around it. Side A scores only the best river; side B scores five per island.

Rivers and islands: On side A, count the shortest path between the river’s ends and score only your best river; each token beyond six adds four points. Do not add every branch. On side B, each island separated by blue tokens scores five; there is always at least one island even without blue separation.

Animal scoring: Each card scores its highest uncovered value, even if unfinished. A card with all cubes still on it scores zero. A completed card moves beside your board and no longer counts toward the four-card limit.

Ending: An empty pouch when refilling the central board, or a player ending a turn with at most two empty personal-board spaces, triggers the end. Finish the round for equal turns. Add landscape and animal points; ties favor more placed Animal cubes, then share victory.

Solo: Use three token spaces and three faceup Animal cards. After each turn, remove the six unchosen tokens from the game and refill all three groups. If you took no Animal card that turn, you may replace one faceup card. Challenge your sun rating for the score and board configuration used.