Butterfly Garden

Begin by placing the game board in the center of the table and distributing player screens to conceal your tiles and collected butterflies. All path tiles are placed inside a cloth bag for random draws. According to the player-count rules, place butterfly figures (typically pink, blue, and purple) onto the starting hexagon spaces along the edges and center of the board. Black butterflies can be included as a mini-expansion variant, replacing standard pink ones at the start of the game to add negative point risks.

The main goal of Butterfly Garden is to strategically maneuver butterflies along connected path tiles from the center and edges of the board toward your designated player screen. Players compete to capture valuable colored butterflies while blocking opponents and occasionally stealing their progress through clever tile placement.

On your turn, you draw two path tiles from the bag. You must play one tile onto any hex space on the board, potentially altering the pathways of multiple butterflies simultaneously. Once placed, any butterflies whose paths extend to an exit or scoring space are collected by the corresponding players. You then keep the second tile behind your player screen, maintaining a hand of two tiles for future turns.

At the conclusion of the game, players tally their scores based on the butterflies collected behind their screens. Purple and pink butterflies yield the highest point values, followed by blue and yellow. If playing with black butterflies, each one captured subtracts points from your total, adding a risk factor to aggressive tile maneuvers.

The game concludes instantly the moment the last butterfly is removed from the board. Players then count up their points using the reference chart on their screens. The player with the highest total score wins. In the event of a tie, all tied players share the victory.