What is it?

This is a simple, cozy game meant for relaxing while teasing the brain just a little. The gist is: you take a few hexagonal cardstock tiles from a stack and place one in an ever-expanding field of tiles making a simple map; you just gotta follow the rules of the tiles to play them legally and get points for placing certain ones. Each game is a mini competition against yourself to see how many points you can get! The theme of the game is cartography or ‘the practice of drawing maps.’ 

This is a single-player game intended for people 12 years of age and up (younger folks could certainly handle this with a little coaching). 

Rules:

• Place 1 'plain' tile in the center of a table. Draw 3 random tiles from the downturned, shuffled tile pile; place these face up in front of you. Play 1 tile from the 3 in a legal location, then draw another; always have 3 tiles to pick from. Continue playing and drawing until you cannot, or have none remaining. Count up your score, play again! 

• Standard tiles (no circle border) can only be played beside the same type, other standard tiles with the given tile type listed, or specialty tiles. ‘Plain’ tiles are playable adjacent to all standard tiles. On certain tiles, BONUS points can be earned if the tile is played beside another of the same type (e.g. stream beside stream).

• Specialty tiles (circle border) can be played beside any standard tile, but listed points are only earned if all listed adjacency demands are fulfilled. Specialty tiles CAN be played beside other specialty tiles of the SAME TYPE (e.g. lake beside lake) and count toward each tile’s adjacency demands; otherwise, specialty tiles CANNOT be played beside other specialty tiles.