62 questions players ask about Harmonies, answered in plain words and graded by where the answer comes from. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-10-29.
The designer answered this directly on BGG.
Each player has their own double-sided Personal board. Only the Central board with the token offers is shared.
The rulebook states this directly.
No — the first-player marker never moves. It only shows who plays last so everyone gets equal turns. The Central board is refilled at the end of every turn, so every offer is full when your turn starts.
One player's reading of the card; no official ruling.
They show how many tokens of each type are in the bag in total.
The rulebook allows stacking only to create Trees, Buildings and Mountains.
Only the stacks on the player aid are legal: a green token on 0–2 brown tokens makes a Tree, a red token on one brown, grey or red token makes a Building, and grey goes only on grey for Mountains. Blue and yellow tokens can never be stacked on or under anything. Every other combination is illegal.
The rulebook only forbids placing underneath earlier tokens, and several players confirm same-turn stacking.
Yes. Tokens are placed one at a time, so you can place a token and cover it with another straight away, for example a rock then a building, or trunk then green top.
The rulebook states this directly.
No. A token may never be placed underneath previously placed tokens, so place trunks first and the green top last. Trees run 1 to 3 high with 0 to 2 brown tokens beneath.
The rulebook states this directly.
No. A token cannot go on a space occupied by an Animal cube, so that token can no longer be built up. You can still change the landscape around it.
The rulebook bars placing tokens on a space with an Animal cube; the designer reply is too terse to rely on.
Only if it has no cube on it. A token holding any Animal cube is closed to further tokens. Other tokens in the same habitat that hold no cube can still be built on.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes, a red token can go on an empty space or on a brown, grey or red token. A lone red token is not a Building and scores nothing. A Building is one red token on a brown, grey or red base.
Players read this from the player aid; no official ruling.
No. A red token may sit on an empty space or on a single brown, grey or red token, not on a stack of two. Surrounding colours only matter at scoring.
Several experienced players agree; no official ruling.
No. The rules have no reset action, so you choose from what is offered. Any reset is a house rule.
The designer answered this directly on BGG.
At any point in your own turn: before taking tokens, between any two placements, and after the last one. Taking an Animal card is limited to once per turn; placing cubes is not.
The rulebook states this directly.
It should not happen. The game ends when a player has 2 or fewer empty spaces at the end of a turn, so everyone starts a turn with at least three. Any token may go on any empty space.
The rulebook lists no reset action and gives discarding only in solo mode.
No. There is no reset action, and discarding to refresh the market is a house rule. (Only solo play has a discard option.)
The rulebook states this directly.
At the end of your turn, after refilling the Central board, refill the Animal card row to 5 faceup cards if needed.
The designer answered this directly on BGG.
No. A card leaves your four slots only once all its cubes have been placed. You cannot return its cubes, discard it and take a replacement.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. Once the last cube is placed, the card goes next to your board and no longer counts toward the four-card limit, so you can take another card.
A single player's answer; no official ruling.
No. Cubes go onto a card only after you take it. Cubes placed on the board come from the cards in your four slots.
The rulebook states this directly.
As many as you can legally place. Each time you complete a habitat pattern on an unoccupied token you may place one cube, with at most one cube per token.
The rulebook states this directly.
Each time you recreate the card's habitat, take the bottom-most cube from the card and place it on the indicated token if that token is unoccupied. One card can place several cubes over time, one per completed pattern.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. You can place a cube on any card you hold whenever its pattern is on your board, even if it was possible last turn. The pattern need not use tokens placed this turn. A pattern that stops matching, such as a height-2 mountain that became height 3, no longer works.
The designer answered this directly on BGG.
Yes. Cube placement is final and the pattern is checked only when the cube is placed. You may later stack on tokens that hold no cube, for instance a Bear first and a mountain level afterward for an Eagle.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. A single token can belong to several identical or different habitats. Only one cube fits on a token, so each cube needs its own free token.
The rulebook states this directly.
No. Only the token receiving the new cube must be unoccupied. Other tokens in the pattern may already carry cubes from other cards.
Players agree, but no official ruling addresses this exact case.
Yes. Tokens without cubes can be stacked on or changed to build another habitat. Tokens already holding a cube stay as they are.
The rulebook states this directly.
No. Each token or stack holds at most one cube, whatever its colour, and that includes Nature's Spirit cubes. Placed cubes stay until the game ends.
Players agree; no official ruling.
You choose one; the token can hold only one cube. The tokens themselves can serve both patterns, so the other habitat can be completed on a different free token.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. The pattern must match the card exactly in colours, heights and layout, but it may be oriented in any direction. A different arrangement does not count.
The rulebook states this directly.
Three or more different colours score it 5 points; two or fewer score 0. A Building is never worth more than 5, and it does not need to be fully surrounded, since empty neighbours are fine.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. All six colours count, brown included, and each neighbouring space is read by its top token. An incomplete stack counts as the colour on top, so a lone brown or red base counts as brown or red.
Several players agree; no official ruling.
A Building in a corner never scores, because a corner has only two neighbours and three colours are needed. A Building on a non-corner edge can score.
The rulebook gives no point values; players agree on 1, 3 and 7.
Mountains score by height only if adjacent to another Mountain; an isolated one scores 0. Every connected Mountain scores, so separate groups each score. Height 1, 2, 3 is worth 1, 3 and 7 points.
Several experienced players agree; no official ruling.
No. Only final positions count at game end. The covered Mountain is now a Building, so the remaining Mountain needs another adjacent Mountain to score.
The rulebook states this directly.
Choose two ends of a string of blue tokens and count the tokens on the shortest path between them, ends included. Only your best river scores, and you pick the ends that give the best result. Each token beyond the 6th earns 4 points.
Most players agree, but the rulebook is silent and the designer ruling is only cited second-hand.
Treat a loop or fork as one group, pick two tokens as ends, and score the shortest path between them, so a closed ring of 6 counts as 4. Players mostly agree, though some say loops have no ends; the rulebook is silent and a designer agreement is only referenced second-hand. For a fork, only your best string scores.
Follows from the rulebook's shortest-path rule.
Yes, it can. The count follows the shortest path between your chosen ends, so a token that creates a shorter route lowers it. Ponds and lakes do not score on their own.
Follows from the shortest-path rule; no official example.
There is no fixed count per shape. Count the shortest path between the chosen ends, both included. A full hexagon is 4 tokens, or 3 if its centre is also water.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. You always have at least one island worth 5 points, even with no blue tokens separating the board.
Several experienced players agree; no official ruling.
No. Separate blue lines can each divide islands; each line must be unbroken blue, and you score each island once.
The rulebook states this directly.
The topmost space that no longer has a cube on it. Completed or not, the card scores that value; a card with all its cubes still on it scores 0.
One player's definition; no official ruling.
A space on your Personal board with no token on it. A space holding a token without a cube is still occupied for this purpose.
The rulebook states this directly.
In solo, no. In multiplayer, finish the round so everyone has the same number of turns. The game ends once your turn leaves 2 or fewer empty spaces.
The rulebook states this directly.
On your first turn: look at your two dealt cards, keep one faceup and return the other. Later players can see what earlier players chose.
The rulebook does not address this directly; several players agree.
Yes. Choosing the Spirit does not use your turn. It occupies one of your four card slots until its cube is placed.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. Build the pattern and place the spirit cube. Otherwise it scores nothing, with no penalty. Its points are in addition to all other scoring.
The rulebook states this directly.
Place the cube on the marked tile and set the card aside, as with a completed Animal card. Fulfilling the pattern again does nothing.
Several experienced players agree; no official ruling.
Yes, rotation is fine. The clear cube goes on the tile the card marks; where the card shows two matching yellow tiles, either works. The cube is a marker for the spirit and nothing else.
Several players agree; the rulebook says only that spirit points are additional.
Yes. Once the pattern is built, every instance of its scoring condition on your board counts at the end, including tokens inside that habitat. Spirit points are added after normal scoring.
Several experienced players agree; no official ruling.
Yes. A completed Spirit scoring per group scores for every qualifying group, on top of your normal river or field points. Dragonfly, for example, scores per group of 2 or more water tokens.
Several experienced players agree; no official ruling.
7 points for each separate group of 2 or more connected water tokens. A single 7-token river scores once; groups of 2, 2 and 3 score three times.
One player reads the card this way; whether adjacent groups merge is not settled.
5 points per field group of one or more yellow tokens, so a single yellow token scores too, unlike ordinary Fields, which need two.
One player reading of the card; no official ruling.
Cat scores per group of one or more Buildings, so a single height-2 Building scores its 4 points.
Several players agree and report the publisher confirmed the error; no direct official post is cited.
6 points. The 4 printed on first-printing cards is a misprint. The publisher acknowledged the error and later printings fix it.
Several experienced players agree; no official ruling.
Each yellow group scores once, for the best condition it meets: 2 points for a group of 1 or 2, 10 points for a group of 3 or more. Three separate 3-token groups score 30. Only group size matters, not shape.
Players agree; no official ruling.
No. Each contiguous group scores once, and touching groups are one group. Separate groups that do not touch each score on their own.
Two players agree; no official source.
Yes. A per-token Spirit such as the Turtle counts every blue token on your board, connected or not.
Based on one player quoting the publisher's card description.
Every connected Animal cube scores 2 points, not only the largest cluster.
Players agree on the 2-sun bonus but disagree on which types give 1; the rulebook text here does not list them.
Choosing no Spirit gives 2 extra suns. A Spirit gives 1 extra sun if it scores groups (Dragonfly, Cat, Stork, Butterfly, Lion) and 0 if not (Mountain Goat, Owl, Woodchuck, Wolf, Turtle). Page 10 of the rulebook shows the icons.
Two players agree; no official source.
No. The suns come from which Spirit you chose at the start, whether or not you complete its pattern.
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. The game ends when your turn leaves 2 or fewer empty spaces, or when the Pouch cannot refill the Central board.
Players describe the same table; the rulebook text here omits the details.
Suns come from your final score band (for example 3 for 90–110, 4 for 110–130), the board side, and the Spirit choice (2 for no Spirit).
The rulebook states this directly.
Yes. If you did not take a card this turn, discard one centre card and replace it from the draw pile.