A) MEDITATE

Choose 1 of the face-up cards on the board and take it, along with any reward shown below the chosen card (see image), then carry out the effects of that card. If there is a fee, you must pay it before taking the card. If there is a reward, you can take it before or after taking the card and performing its effect. Some cards have an immediate effect, while others allow you to carry out additional actions throughout the game, see The Cards.

1. The card above this box costs you 1 coin.

2. No cost or reward.

3. Get 2 coins and 1 water.

4. Get 1 coin and 2 water, or acquire a koi.

5. Get 1 shore or 1 foliage.

After you have meditated, slide all face-up cards on the board to the right to fill the just-vacated space, then draw the top card from the deck to refill the empty space on the left.

STORAGE AND CAPACITY LIMIT

You have a storage area on your sensei board made up of brown hexes. Your storage is used to contain the water, foliage, shore and koi tiles you get during the game.

Your initial capacity limit is 5 hexes, but you can expand it thanks to the storage expansion tiles, which are obtained via Storage cards, see The Cards. The capacity limit is only checked at the end of your turn: if your tiles occupy more hexes than you have available, you must discard tiles of your choice, placing them back in the supply, until your tiles occupy only a valid number of spaces. The tiles in your storage can be rearranged at any time, as long as they respect your space limit.

Water and foliage tiles occupy 1 hex each. Shore tiles are made up of 3 hexes, and in fact occupy 3 storage hexes. Koi also take up space: a small koi takes 1 hex, medium takes 2, and large takes 3.

In the rare cases where it’s not possible to neatly fit tiles into your storage, compare the total number of hexes on your tiles with the available space in your storage to ensure your capacity limit is still respected.

For example, in the basic storage, you can keep up to 1 shore and 2 water tiles, or 1 shore and 1 medium koi, and so on.

ACQUIRE KOI

There are 3 ways to acquire a koi:

1. When you meditate, if you choose the fourth space on the main board, you may purchase 1 koi for the normal price, instead of taking a coin and 2 water tiles.

2. When you meditate, if you take a Market card, you may purchase 1 koi with a discount of 1 coin, see The Cards.

3. By discarding 1 luck token you own, you may purchase 1 koi for 1 coin more than the normal price. The base price of a koi depends on its size:

A. Size

B. Cost in coins