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One player, designated as the caller, draws a tile randomly and then announces to the others which tile was drawn by declaring the three-digit combination (e.g., "5-7-4" would refer to the value of the vertical path, the value of the path crossing from lower left to upper right, and the value of the
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Although the selection of the tile is random, the placement of the tiles determines the ending score. The object is to complete colored/numbered lines across the board. When a contiguous path is completed from edge to edge, the score of the contiguous path is the number of tiles multiplied by the
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with double-sided playing boards. The Daffodil board printed on the reverse side of the standard (19-cell) board features 21 hexagonal cells arranged as 3 adjacent 2×2 (7-cell) hexagonal "flowers". Each flower has a prepopulated free cell at its center, continuing any adjacent lines.
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path crossing from upper left to lower right, in that sequence). Each player then puts their copy of that tile on their board in any available spot. Tiles must be placed so the numbers remain upright (e.g., the 1-, 5-, and 9-series lines must always be vertical).
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The caller then repeats the drawing and announcement, followed by player placement, until the board is filled. Each player assesses their score and caller duties rotate to the next player until a total of four rounds have been played.
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that uses octagonal tiles and a 3×2, 24-cell board with prepopulated square interstitial spaces. In addition to the basic game, bonus points can be scored with special tiles.
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In addition, there are four wild card tiles, in which two or three paths are allowed to be any of the three possible values. The wild card tiles are:
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The maximum possible combined score for all lines is 307 points; there are sixteen possible configurations that achieve this score.
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The upright-number rule forces each path to be one of three numbers and determines the number of possible tiles (27):
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line value, so the maximum single-line score is 45 points (=5×9 vertical tiles along the center of the board).
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that uses a larger 64 hexagonal tileset (per player) on an expanded 4×4, 37-cell
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In 2016, Burley Games released a limited (1000 copies) "Daffodil Edition" for
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The player with the highest cumulative score after four rounds is the winner.
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To start, each player takes a board with 19 hexagonal cells arranged as a 3×3
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for smartphones and tablets. It was released for iOS and Android in 2012.
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created by Peter Burley. It can be characterized as a strategic
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and subsequently by several other publishers since 1983.
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One configuration that scores the maximum 307 points
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