Skip to content
Box art for Calico

Player aid

Calico

Sew a quilt, collect buttons, attract cats!

Credits: Jarrod Moore

Source documentBoardGameGeek

Contents

  • Randomly select one cat scoring tile from each group (grouped by number of dots on the scoring tiles)
  • Place the cat tokens matching the selected cat scoring tiles near the scoring tiles
  • Place 2 randomly selected black + while patch tiles under each cat scoring tile
  • Shuffle all coloured patch tiles and place them within reach of all players to form the patch tile supply
  • Place button tokens and button scoring tile in reach of all players
  • Give each player:
    • A quilt board
    • 6 design goal tiles matching their chosen quilt board colour
  • Each player shuffles their 6 design goal tiles, randomly selects 4 of them and from those 4 revealed tiles, chooses 3 of them to place on the design goal tile areas on their quilt board
  • Each player draws 2 patch tiles to form their starting hand
  • Reveal 3 patch tiles to form the tile market

  • Choose one of the two tiles in your hand to play to any open space on your quilt board
  • Take any cat tokens or button tokens that you are now eligible to receive
  • From the 3 patch tiles in the tile market, take one of them into your hand
  • Refill the market with a tile from the patch tile supply

  • The game ends when all players have filled their quilt boards with patch tiles
  • The player with the most points wins
  • Ties are broken by most button tokens, otherwise the victory is shared