Gift of Tulips Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Credits
• Contents
  • Tulip Cards
  • Festival Cards
• Game Setup
• How To Play
  • Action 1 – Keep a Tulip In Your Bouquet
  • Action 2 – Give a Tulip to a Friend
  • Action 3 – Add a Tulip to The Festival
    • Adjusting Festival Cards
    • Festival Example
• End of Game
  • Festival Majority Scoring
    • Festival Majority Scoring Example
  • End Game Scoring
  • Resolving Ties
• Tulip Varieties
  • Tulip Greuze
  • Alba Coerulea Oculata Tulip
  • Affaire Triumph Tulip
  • Orange Emperor Tulip
• Game Designer

Credits

• Design: Sara Perry
• Development: Carla Kopp
• Illustration: Emily Hancock, Katy Grierson
• Graphic Design: Katie Khau, María Gabriela Patiño
• Editor: Misha Bushyager, Linda Baldwin
• Rulebook Layout: Adrienne Ezell
• Lead Playtester: Will Kirkpatrick
• Proofreaders: Sam Hillier, John Kemp, TJ Lagasse, Michael Sislofsky, Beth Jackson, Angel Drummond, Sean Fenemore, Zach Tate, David Bruglia, Courtney Shernan, Patrick Crowe, Zach Hoekstra, Miguel Conceição, Ori Avtalion, Sarah Relf, Ami Sandler, Ric White, David Hendriks, Amelie Le-Roche, Andrew Borck, Jen Trager, Ben Voorhorst, Monika Dec, Julia Thomsen, Mike Bishop, Sven Obermaier, Corey Amend, & Darin Hughes.

Contents

• 96 Tulip cards
• 6 Reference cards
• 8 Festival cards
• 1 Tulip Tracking card & 4 Tulip Tracking tokens
• 6 Player Scoring cards & 6 Player tokens
• 1 Best Bud card

Tulip Cards

Each Tulip card shows a Tulip Value, the Tulip Variety (indicated by icon and color), and a Player Count icon showing which player counts the card is used with.

Festival Cards

Each Festival card shows the Tulip Ranking (the player count for which it applies) and the points earned for Giving and for Keeping: 1st Majority, 2nd Majority, and 3rd Majority (3-6 Players for 2nd Majority, 5-6 Players for 3rd Majority).

Game Setup

1. If playing with fewer than 5 players, remove the 24 5/6 player Tulip cards from the Tulip deck and return them to the box.

2. Shuffle the remaining cards in the Tulip deck, and then remove a number of cards based on player count:

   Player Count	Remove
   2	18
   3	4
   4	6
   5	14
   6	10

   Do not look at the removed cards.

3. Set the Tulip deck within reach of all players.

4. Give each player a Scoring card, Player token, and Reference card.

5. Find the four Festival cards for the current player count (shown on the top of the card) and place them in a row in the middle of the table starting with 1st place and ending with 4th place.

6. Reveal two Tulip cards from the Tulip deck, one at a time. Place the higher value Tulip under the 1st Place Festival card and the other card under the 2nd Place Festival card.

   • If the second card is the same variety of Tulip as the first, draw cards until a different variety of Tulip is revealed. Return the unused cards to the deck and reshuffle the deck.
   • If the cards are the same value, place the first card drawn on 1st Place and the second on 2nd.

   The area with the Festival cards and their corresponding Tulip cards is called the Festival.

7. Place the Tulip Tracking card and the 4 Tulip Tracking tokens (one for each Tulip variety) above the Festival cards. Place the Tracking tokens matching the colors of the 1st and 2nd Place Tulips on the Tulip Tracking card on the number that matches their value.

8. Deal two Tulip cards to each player. Players choose one card to add face-up in front of them to start their bouquet and one to put face-down to create the Secret Festival pile above the Festival cards.

   More information on the Secret Festival is in the Action 3 - Add a Tulip to the Festival section.

9. The player who last gave a flower to another person is the starting player.

How To Play

On your turn, draw one card from the Tulip deck, perform an action, then draw another card and perform a different action. You cannot perform the same action twice in a single turn. After you perform 2 actions, it is the next player's turn, in clockwise order.

Action 1 – Keep a Tulip In Your Bouquet

Place the Tulip card face-up in front of you. These cards will determine how much you score at the end of the game.

Organize your Bouquet by variety, which is indicated by both the icon and color of the Tulip.

You immediately score points for adding the Tulip to your bouquet if that Tulip is currently ranked 3rd or 4th. The Keeping points are listed on the Festival card.

Note: If a Tulip variety is currently not ranked, it is considered to be in 4th place for Giving and Keeping points.

Action 2 – Give a Tulip to a Friend

Place the card (face-up) in another player's bouquet. Immediately score points equal to the Giving Value of the Festival card above the variety of Tulip you gave.

The Giving Value is based on the value of the specific card you gave plus additional points, as shown on the Festival card.

Action 3 – Add a Tulip to The Festival

Adding a card to the Festival determines how many points will be awarded to whoever holds the most (and second-most) of that Tulip variety at the end of the game. By playing Tulips to the Festival, you can change the ranking of Tulips.

There are two ways to add a card to the Festival. You may only do one of these per turn:

• Add the card face up to the Festival and adjust Tulip cards and Tulip Tracking tokens as needed. (See the Adjusting Festival Cards section below.)
• Add a card face-down to the Secret Festival deck.

Some cards in the Secret Festival deck will be revealed at the end of the game, and can influence the ranking of Tulips in the Festival.

Adjusting Festival Cards

When you add a Tulip to the Festival, stack it with cards of the same variety and add the new value to the previous total that is listed on the Tulip Tracking card. If the total value is equal to or higher than another Tulip variety in the Festival, it takes that stack's position, pushing stacks equal to or lower than it one space to the right.

It's not necessary to use the Tulip Tracking card and tokens, but they can make it easy to know what the values of the Tulips are and which Tulips need to move when adding to the Festival.

Festival Example

An orange 2 card is added to the Festival.

It isn't higher than the Blue Tulips, which have a value of 5, but it equals the Purple Tulips, which have a value of 2. It replaces the Purple Tulips under the 2nd Place Festival card and pushes the Purple Tulips to 3rd Place. The Pink Tulips are moved to the 4th Place Festival card, which won't be scored at the end of the game.

The Pink Tulips could be moved back under a Scoring Festival card if more Pink Tulips are added to the Festival later in the game.

End of Game

The game ends when the Tulip deck runs out and the last player finishes their turn. All players will have the same number of turns. Perform the following steps when the game ends:

1. Shuffle and take 5 random cards from the Secret Festival deck. If there are 5 or fewer cards in the Secret Festival deck, take all of them.
2. Flip one card at a time and add each to the Festival, shifting the Tulip card stacks as needed.
3. After the Secret Festival cards have been added to the Festival, scoring begins.

Festival Majority Scoring

For each of the top 3 Tulip varieties in the Festival, see which player has the most Tulip cards (not value) of that variety in their Bouquet. That player scores the 1st Majority points listed on the Festival card. In a game with more than 2 players, do the same for the player with the second-most Tulip cards of that variety. That player earns the 2nd Majority points on the Festival card. In a 5 or 6 player game, there is also a 3rd Majority that is scored in the same fashion.

If there is a tie for majority, the player with the higher total value of Tulip cards of that variety gains the points. If the players have the same value of Tulip cards, then the players all gain the points for having the majority.

Festival Majority Scoring Example

If the Purple Tulips are ranked 1st Place and Sara has 3 Purple Tulips, Catherine has 2, and María has 1, Sara scores 15 points and Catherine scores 10.

If the Orange Tulips are ranked 2nd Place and Sara has 1 Orange Tulip, Catherine has 2, and María has 2, it is between Catherine and María for the majority. Catherine has a total value of 6, while María has a total of 4, so Catherine gets 10 points and María gets 7. Sara does not get any majority points for Orange Tulips, even if her Tulip card has a higher value than all of Catherine and María's Tulip cards.

End Game Scoring

A player's final score is made up of the following:

• The points gained during the game for giving tulips to other players and keeping certain varieties of tulips in your bouquet.
• Festival Majority scoring.

The player with the most points wins.

Resolving Ties

If there is a tie, the player with the most tulips in their bouquet wins. If there is still a tie, tied players share the victory.

Tulip Varieties

Tulip Greuze

This tulip was named after the late 18th century French painter, Jean-Baptiste Greuze. It's of the Single Late variety, which means it has a single flower that blooms in late Spring.

Alba Coerulea Oculata Tulip

These tulips are of the Species variety. They are smaller than other tulip varieties and are not defined by their flowering times. They are sometimes referred to as botanical tulips.

Affaire Triumph Tulip

These tulips are of the Triumph variety. Triumph tulips are the largest group of tulips, have single flowers, and are cup-shaped. They come in a large range of colors and bloom in mid to late-Spring.

Orange Emperor Tulip

These tulips are of the Fosteriana variety. These tulips have slender, cup-shaped flowers, and usually come in red, yellow, and white shades.

Game Designer

Sara Perry is a game designer, developer, and freelancer from Alabama. When she's not playing games, you can find her baking, hiking, or playing with her puppy, Gus.