Umbrella

Players orchestrate a grid of colored umbrellas on a personal 4x4 board by sliding umbrellas in from shared and private waiting zones. On a turn, a player takes an umbrella from an adjacent waiting zone and pushes it onto their board from that direction, expelling an umbrella into the opposite waiting zone. Certain single-color umbrella patterns shown on figure tiles score when created; scoring tokens are placed on a personal scoreboard and used to pass figure tiles to the left. Play proceeds clockwise until a player meets one of several end conditions, then players tally points from scoring tokens, token groups (perboard), and umbrellas remaining in the personal waiting zone.

Players: 1–4 best 3
Playing time: 30 min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 1.6 / 5