Canvas
In Canvas, you play as a painter competing in an art competition.
Players will collect art cards, layering 3 of them together to create their own unique Painting.
Each card contains a piece of artwork as well as a set of icons used during scoring. Icons will be revealed or hidden based on the way players choose to layer the cards making for an exciting puzzle.
Paintings are scored based on a set of Scoring cards which will change each game. Once players have created and scored 3 paintings the game ends.
Number of players: 1 - 5
Game duration: 19 mn
Complexity: 1 / 5
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Rules summary
Overview
Paint the best 3 Paintings across the course of the game. "Paint a good painting" by assembling sets of 3 Art Cards so that their color swatches (at the bottom) fulfill the goals.
Turn
You can do one of two actions on your turn:
Take an Art Card
OR
Complete a Painting
The maximum number of Art Cards you can hold is 5, and as such if you are at this limit you are forced to do the Complete a Painting action
Take an Art Card
You start with four Inspiration Tokens
Choose a card from the Art Row to purchase
If the Art Card you take is furthest from the deck, this is free
If you want any other Art Card, you must place an Inspiration Token on all cards to the left of it
If the Art Card you take has Inspiration Tokens on it, you gain them
Complete a Painting
To take this action, you must have at least 3 Art Cards in hand
Choose 3 Art cards in your hand and sleeve them in an order of your choosing, leftmost on the bottom and stacking to rightmost on top
Any symbols (color swatches on the base of each card) which are covered will be ignored
As an example, if you had Card A with a centre and right symbol, Card B with a right symbol, and Card C with a left symbol. Card C will never be ignored, likewise with Card A's centre symbol, but depending on how you order Card A and B, one of their right symbols will be lost
Once the painting is configured, you now score it
There are two main types of scoring, external and internal
External scoring looks at the four scoring cards set up at the beginning of the game
You take a number of that colour ribbon equal to the amount of unique times you scored it e.g. with a scoring card of pairs of triangles, 3 triangles would score you 1 Ribbon whilst 4 triangles would score you 2 Ribbons
Internal scoring looks at the Silver Ribbon icons you put into the painting, these have their own scoring functions e.g. how many other symbols are triangles, and are scored in the same way so if you had 3 triangles, you'd score 3 Silver Ribbons in addition to coloured ribbons
Game End
The game ends for each player when they have completed their third painting, after which they pass until everyone has completed 3 paintings
At game end, count up the quantity of each colour ribbon, and score points equal to what's shown on its scoring card
Silver Ribbons score 2 points each regardless of how many are collected
The player with the most points wins, or if a tie, the player with the most Inspiration Tokens wins
