Mandala Stones: Harmony — Rules Manual

INTRODUCTION
Welcome back to Mandala Stones, a game of tranquility and beauty! After becoming familiar with arranging colorful stones to create stunning works of art, it is time for you to undertake a new challenge. With a whole new set of 12 stones at your disposal the Mandala board comes with renewed strength: the new stones serve as wild cards! Competing with your friends and family to create beautiful patterns has never been more challenging - and more enjoyable!

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.

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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. 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: 3 Victory Points (as there are 2 different colors in this tower)
Your combined score is 14 Victory Points!
Having scored 14 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.
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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.
CREDITS
Game Design: Filip Głowacz
Game Development: Andrei Novac, Błażej Kubacki, Małgorzata Mitura, Rainer Åhlfors
Graphic Design: Zbigniew Umgelter
English Rules: Andrei Novac, Rainer Åhlfors, Błażej Kubacki
Rulebook DTP: Zuzanna Kołakowska
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Head of Marketing: Filip Głowacz
Head of Sales: Ireneusz Huszcza
Art Direction: Kuba Polkowski
Head of Development: Błażej Kubacki
Board&Dice would like to thank the following for their invaluable play testing, advice, and feedback:
Bartosz Bajda, Daniel Dubel, Iwona Jaworowska, Janusz Smoła, Kinga Agnik, Konrad Sulżycki, Maria Jóźwik, Mateusz Myrcha, Michał ‘Killjoy’ Cieślikowski, Sebastian Borowczyk, Weronika Nogaś, Youry Ivanov, Kaleb Åhlfors, Alexa Åhlfors, Isac Åhlfors, Chaylee Åhlfors, Ben Seipert, Adam Hehl, and the board game group at Game Grid (Lehi, UT).
Important! We prepare each copy of the game with great care. Regrettably, mistakes can still happen. Therefore, during setup, please make sure that you are not missing any elements. This will ensure that your experience is not spoiled by a missing component.
If you notice any damaged or missing components, contact us via the customer support form found at https://boardanddice.com/customer-support/
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