Enchanted Ivy
Enchanted Ivy Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 1 Starting Door Token
- 20 Ivy Cards
- 36 Guest Tokens
- 1 Ivy Scoring Card
- 30 Guest Cards
- 1 Draw Bag
- 5 Endless Mode Setup Cards
- 2 Storybooks
- 1 Keepsake/Garden Board
- 2 Sticker Sheets
- 3 Secret Door Token Sheets
Spoiler Warning! Don't remove the secret door sheets from the bottom of the box until you unlock them! See pg. 10.
Overview
In Enchanted Ivy, you take on the role of Ivy, the courageous new owner of a magical inn. Your goal each game is to build your inn in the way that best suits your eccentric guests, while cultivating the ivy covering your walls. You score points for satisfying your guests' unique preferences, and for connecting the ivy across as many walls and balconies as you can.
Game Modes
There are 2 ways to play Enchanted Ivy:
Story Mode
Tell Ivy's story through 11 fully replayable scenarios. Complete story challenges to unlock secret doors you can use in both game modes.
Endless Mode
Craft your own scenarios from an assortment of guests and other setup options. See how high you can score!
We recommend playing your first few games in Story Mode, starting with the Act 1 Prologue.
Story Mode Setup
- Open the Storybook to the setup page for the scenario you want to play.
- The scenario Guest List tells you which guest cards to use. Lay the indicated cards out faceup, then place the ivy scoring card nearby.
- Gather the guest tokens for the selected guests and place them in the draw bag. Leave the rest in the box. Guests with multiple tokens are marked on the Guest List.
- The scenario tells you how many ivy cards to use. Discard random cards until you have the correct number, then shuffle the rest with the balcony side up. This is the draw pile.
- Place the starting door in front of you, along with any secret doors you have unlocked.
- Draw 2 ivy cards from the deck and 2 guest tokens from the bag as your starting hand.
Ivy Cards
Each ivy card has a balcony on one side and an empty wall on the other. Otherwise, each card is the same on both sides (it has the same ivy pattern and flowers). There are 5 flower colors, which act like card suits.
- Balcony Side: Ivy, Brick, Balcony, Flowers
- Wall Side: Ivy, Flowers
TIP: You can always see the next card on the draw pile, which means you also know what's on the other side. You also know which cards were discarded at setup.
Building Your Inn
Each scenario has an Inn Layout diagram that shows how your inn must look at the end of the game. You don't have to decide where the borders of your inn are at the start of the game, but you can't place a card that makes it impossible to complete your layout.
18-Card Layout Example:
- Spaces with Xs are "gaps" that must be left empty
- Filled-in spaces can be walls or balconies
- Max row width is 5 cards
- Max column height is 4 cards (counting gaps)
Your Guests
Guest tokens are placed on balconies and award points at the end of the game based on the preferences on their card.
Each guest has an alignment (Sunny or Shady), which matters to other guests who score based on alignment.
Each guest card shows: a guest icon and alignment, that guest's preferences, an Endless Mode icon, a scoring example, the guest's name, and flavor text.
Scenario Goal & Challenges
To successfully complete a scenario, you need to score enough points to meet the Success goal in the Storybook.
Most scenarios also have a High Score goal you can shoot for, as well as optional challenges to help out your guests. Challenges don't award points, but they do help you unlock secret doors (pg. 10).
IMPORTANT: To be eligible to complete challenges, you must meet the scenario's Success goal.
Game Turns
When playing a scenario, you take one turn after another. Each turn has 3 steps:
- Build Inn — In either order, place 1 ivy card from your hand as a balcony, and the other as a wall.
- Place Guest — Place 1 guest token from your hand on the new balcony. Keep the other.
- Replenish — Draw 2 ivy cards and 1 guest token to refill your hand.
Ivy Card Placement
- Each ivy card you place after the first must touch at least 1 previously placed card along an edge.
- Balconies must always be placed upright from your perspective.
- Walls can be placed in either vertical orientation.
- You can build in any direction, as long as you don't place a card that makes it impossible to complete your Inn Layout.
Connecting Ivy
If the ivy on 2 cards touches along all or part of an edge, it connects to form a single ivy patch. Ivy also connects across balconies and doors on cards (all ivy on a card is always part of the same patch). Having fewer ivy patches scores more points.
- Connected: cards whose ivy touches form 1 ivy patch.
- Not connected: cards whose ivy does not touch form separate ivy patches.
Placing Guests
You must place 1 guest token each turn, on the balcony you place that turn. After your last turn, you will have 1 guest token leftover, which does not score.
Placing a Door
Once during each scenario, at any time, you may place an available door in the inn and resolve the effects printed on the back. You may choose either the starting door or any secret door you've previously unlocked.
Unless a door says otherwise, it must be placed on a wall in the bottom-most row of your inn. Once your door is placed, you cannot place new ivy cards below it.
The starting door scores an extra 3 at game end. Remember you can place it right before scoring!
Game End
After drawing the last ivy card in the draw pile, finish your turn and end the game.
Flip the page in the Storybook to find the scenario scoring table. Use 1 column to add up your points for each guest, the ivy scoring card, and your door. When finished, read the scenario conclusion on the next page. Note: The scoring table has multiple columns so you can record multiple plays.
Scoring Example
After the last turn, this player scores:
- Monk: 8, but loses 2 for touching 1 guest
- Mystery Knight: 4 for no guests on their right and 4 for none on their left
- Painter: 4 for a guest 1 space away plus 2 for a guest 3 spaces away
- Ivy: 12 for 3 separate ivy patches
- Door: 3 for the Starting Door
The Scarecrows don't score. Their final score is 35 — just enough for a Success!
Scoring Clarifications
See back page for positional reference.
- Guests can score negative total points.
- Guest tokens that were not placed or that were removed from the inn score 0 points. Other tokens belonging to the same guest score normally.
- If a guest preference requires tracing a line, path, or shape that is not legally possible, score 0 points for that preference.
- If a guest preference tells you to choose a direction, you don't have to decide until they score.
- Guests who score gaps do not score the empty area outside the inn.
- Guests who score walls do not score spaces with doors or spaces with guests that were placed by special effects.
Scenario Success
If you meet the Success goal for a scenario, check off all goals and challenges you completed, and earn the following rewards:
- Success: For meeting the Success goal, place the matching caterpillar sticker anywhere on your Garden board.
- High Score: If you met the High Score goal, ALSO place the matching butterfly sticker anywhere on your Garden board.
- Challenges: For each challenge you completed, place the matching keepsake sticker on your Keepsake board, on any of the 5 shelves.
Secret Doors: When you fill a shelf on your Keepsake board, immediately unlock the secret door with the same letter. It's available in all future games.
Replaying Scenarios
If you didn't earn all the rewards for a scenario, you can replay it right away, or come back to it later. You're never required to successfully complete a scenario to move on to the next one, and you can return to a previous scenario whenever you like.
Endless Mode
Instead of playing a Storybook scenario, you can use these rules to make up your own. Other than setup and scoring, all rules are the same as in Story Mode.
Creating a Scenario
Follow Story Mode setup on pg. 3, with the following changes:
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Guest List: Sort the guest cards into groups with the same letter or number in the top right. Choose or randomly select the following:
- 2 number groups (3 guest tokens each)
- 1 letter group (4 guest tokens)
Lay out the selected cards and prepare the draw bag as normal.
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Draw Pile & Inn Layout: Choose or randomly draw an Endless Mode setup card. Use the indicated number of ivy cards to create the draw pile and keep the Inn Layout diagram nearby.
Scoring
After your last turn, add up your score as normal, then determine your rank:
| Score | Rank |
|---|---|
| 0-49 | Inept Innkeeper |
| 50-59 | Arcane Apprentice |
| 60-69 | Haunted Hotelier |
| 70-79 | Proper Proprietor |
| 80-89 | Bewitching Boutique |
| 90+ | Enchanted Innrunner |
Positional Reference
- Touching: Occupying any of the 8 surrounding spaces.
- Orthogonally Touching: Touching along an edge.
- Diagonally Touching: Touching at a corner.
- Same Row/Column: Any distance away in a horizontal/vertical line. There can be gaps in between.
- Top/Bottom Row: No other cards are above/below. Doesn't need to be a full row.
- Gaps: Empty spaces marked with an X on the Inn Layout. Does not include the area outside the inn.
- Path: A sequence of touching spaces that doesn't visit any space more than once.