Keyflower

To set up Keyflower, each player receives a single home tile and eight random workers drawn from a bag, kept secret behind their player screen. On the main playing area, various hexagonal tiles are laid out: resource tiles (iron, stone, wood, gold), skill tokens (anvils, pickaxes, saws), boat tiles with workers and skills, turn order tiles, and village tiles. The number and type of village tiles available are dictated by the current season, starting with spring. Green workers are rarer and typically acquired through specific actions rather than random draws.

The objective of Keyflower is to accumulate the most victory points by building a thriving village over four rounds, each representing a season. Players achieve this by strategically acquiring and placing hexagonal tiles in their village, utilizing workers to gain resources and perform actions, and meeting specific scoring conditions on their tiles, especially those revealed during the winter round.

On a player's turn, starting with the player holding the purple starting player token, they can take one action. This involves using workers from behind their screen to either gain a benefit from an existing village tile (in their own or another player's village, or a central tile) or to bid on an available tile. When bidding, workers of the same color must be used on a single tile, and subsequent bids on that tile must be a higher amount of the same color. Losing bids allow workers to be moved to another action, while winning bids secure the tile for the player's village or determine turn order/boat selection.

At the end of the winter round, players calculate their final scores. Points are awarded for the face value of tiles in their village. Additionally, players earn bonus points by fulfilling specific conditions indicated on certain tiles, such as having sets of different resources or skills. Some bonuses may require specific resources to be physically on the scoring tile, while others count resources from a player's general supply. Gold acts as a wild resource for both actions and scoring, and any unallocated gold at the end of the game is worth one additional point.

The game concludes after the winter round, following the final scoring. The four rounds represent spring, summer, fall, and winter. During the end-of-season cleanup, losing bid workers return to their owners, unbid tiles go back to the box, and winning bid tiles are added to the respective players' villages. Turn order tiles are resolved, determining boat selection and the next round's start player. Winter setup is unique, as players choose from a hand of winter tiles they received at the start of the game, which offer end-game scoring goals. The player with the highest total victory points wins; in case of a tie, all tied players share the victory.