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GAME PLAY
A game of Small Islands is played in maximum 4 Rounds.
A Round is divided into 3 phases:
1. Preparation: set up for the new Round.
2. Exploration: players place Tiles (Landscape or Ship) in turn.
3. Reward: players place Houses on the islands and earn
Prestige Points.
1. PREPARATION
Draw 6 Landscape Tiles from the Reserve Stack without
looking at them and place them face down on the Navigation
Tile to form the Navigation Stack.
Then, each player secretly draws 2 Objective Cards in order to
have 3 of them, then:
1 Chooses 1 Objective Card for the Current Round.
2 Puts aside 1 Objective Card for the Next Round (place
a House on it as a reminder).
3 Returns the remaining Objective Card face down onto
the stack.

An Objective Card is composed
of a Mission (left part) and a
Reward (right part). During
the Reward phase:
1 The Mission determines the condition that an island
must fulfill in order to place a House on it.
2 The Reward determines how many Prestige Points will
be earned for each island that receives a House.

tarting with the first player, and in clockwise order, each
player must perform only one of the following 2 actions:
• Explore: draw and place a Landscape Tile.
• Land: draw and place a Ship Tile. This action ends the
Exploration Phase.
ADVANCED MODE
Each player secretly draws 2 Mission Cards and 2 Reward
Cards in order to have 3 of each.
An Objective is composed of
1 Mission Card and 1 Reward Card.
Each player:
1. Creates 1 Objective for the Current Round.
2. Puts aside 1 Mission Card and 1 Reward
Card for the Next Round.
3. Returns the remaining 2 Cards, face down onto
their respective stack.
NOTE
As long as there are Landscape Tiles on the
Navigation Tile, players cannot Land.
Indeed, many storms are hitting the coast, which is why the sailors
often have to wait for the right time to bring their discoveries back to
the Great Continent.

1. Take 1 Landscape Tile from the
3 available face up Landscape Tiles and
add it to your hand.
2. Place down 1 of the 3 Landscape Tiles in your hand while
respecting the Tile Placement Rules.
3. Optional: If you wish, you can place one of your Bonus
Tokens as well (See Bonus Token Placement Rules).
4. Replace the Landscape Tile taken with a new Tile from
the Navigation Stack .
If the Navigation Stack is depleted, replace the Landscape
Tile with a new Tile from
the Reserve Stack .

You can choose the orientation of the Tile you place.
• A Tile must be placed adjacent to at least one other Tile by
its side, and aligned with it.
• A Tile must continue the landscape illustration in a coherent
manner on all sides AND corners.
• An island is constitued by several Landscape Tiles,
adjacent by their sides only.
• A Landscape Tile cannot go over the edge of the table. As
everyone knows, the Earth is flat and the edge of the table
represents the end of the world.
During your turn, while performing the action Explore
(and only this one), you can place 1 Bonus Token (one
Token per turn) on any Landscape Tile already in play.
The Bonus Tokens are double-sided:
RESOURCE SIDE
• A Resource Token must be placed on top of one
of the other two Natural Resources of the game.
• A Resource Token can hide another one.
PORT SIDE
• A Port Token must be placed on
the coast of an island.
• There cannot be more than 2 Ports
on the same Landscape Tile.

LAND
This action is only available if the Navigation
Stack is depleted. Then:
• Take the Ship Tile of your color in the Reserve OR a Grey
Ship Tile (with 2 or 3 players).
• Place the Ship Tile using the Tile Placement Rules.
If a Ship Tile cannot be taken or placed, then it is not possible
to Land. Exploring is the only alternative.
When a player places a Ship Tile, the Exploration Phase is
over. Move on to the Reward Phase.

3. REWARD
All players place House on islands and win Prestige Point.
Starting with the player who placed the Ship Tile and moving
in clockwise order, the players perform once, in turn, the
Reward Phase.
1. Reveal your Objective Card for the current Round.
Reveal your Mission and Reward Cards.
2. Mission: You can place one or more Houses on the islands
of your choice that fulfill your Mission, while using the
House Placement Rules.
(See below and page 10 for Cards Explanation).
Each player can only place one House per island.
Placing a House is not compulsory.
3. Reward: For each island on which you place a House, take
the Prestige Points indicated by your Reward (use the
Prestige Tokens).
4. Take the Houses from the Reserve in order to have at most
4 Houses.
5. Return the Objective Card you used to the stack of
Objective Cards.
Return the Mission and Reward cards

HOUSE PLACEMENT RULES
IMPORTANT: You can only place a House on an island that
fulfills the condition set by your Mission.
• Houses of different colours can be placed on a same island,
but not Houses of the same colour.
• A House can only be placed on an available Location for
House Symbol.
• A House can only be placed on an island made of at least
2 Landscape Tiles.
• A House can be placed on an island, whether it is complete
or not, and whether a ship is nearby or not.

END OF THE ROUND
When each player has performed the Reward phase, if the
game is not over:
• Shuffle all the Objective Cards to form a new stack
face down.
Shuffle separately all the Mission and Reward Cards
to create 2 new stacks face down.
• The next player in turn, after the player who just placed a
Ship Tile, becomes the First Player for the next Round.
• Play a new Round, starting with the Preparation Phase
(see page 4).
END OF THE GAME
The game ends immediately after one of these 3 conditions occurs:
• During the Preparation Phase: if there are less than the
6 Landscape Tiles needed in the Reserve Stack to form
the Navigation Stack.
• During the Exploration Phase: at the beginning of your
turn, if there are no more Landscape Tiles available
face up AND if you cannot place a Ship Tile. Then the
players move immediately to a last Reward Phase, starting
with you.
• At the end of the Reward Phase: if all Ship Tiles have
been placed.

Each player adds up all his Prestige Points:
• Prestige Points gained during the game.
• + the Prestige Points indicated on the Discovery
Tokens, if you have collected any through an Objective
(see page 11).
• + 1 Prestige Point for each Port located on the
8 Landscape Tiles around his Ship Tile.
With 2 or 3 players, Grey Ship Tiles do not grant any
Prestige Points.
If a player has not placed a Ship Tile of his colour, he
obviously does not received any Prestige Points for it.
The Player with the most Prestige Points wins the game.
If there is a tie, the winner is, in order:
• The player who has placed the most Houses.
• The player who has the most Ports on the 8 Tiles around
his Ship.
• The last player who placed a Tile (Landscape or Ship)

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