How to Play

Tapestry

1-5 players 90-120 min 7.4 Board Game Geek Rating

In Tapestry, players build unique civilizations from humanity's dawn to future eras. Progress along four tracks—science, technology, exploration, and military—to gain increasingly powerful benefits. Develop your capital city, boost income, and collect tapestry cards while utilizing special asymmetric powers. Victory goes to whoever accumulates the most points through strategic advancement.

Published 2019

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

Place the Candy Rush Store

Position the "Candy Rush" Store mat in the middle of the table where all players can easily reach it

Create the Tapestry deck

Randomly shuffle 20 Tapestry cards and form a separate deck (D1) for the Candy Rush Store

Place landmark candy

Put one piece of candy on each Tier I, II, and III landmark spots on the main board

Prepare technology cards

When shuffling and dealing 3 face-up technology cards during setup, ensure at least one is a landmark card

Place achievement candy

Put 2 candy on each of the 3 achievements on the main board

Place map candy

Put candy on the middle island hex and one candy at each end of the 4 advancement tracks

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

Gain extra candy during income

If you are the first of your neighbors to take an income turn, gain the corresponding extra resource(s) and 1 additional candy before playing a tapestry card

Complete districts for candy

Whenever you complete a district in your capital city, gain candy in addition to the normal resource

Upgrade tech cards for candy

At the end of your advancement turn (only once per game), if you have a tech card upgraded to the top row, gain candy

Deplete outposts for candy

When you run out of outposts, gain candy

Gain extra civilization bonus

Whenever you gain an extra civilization, gain candy

Visit the Candy Rush Store

At the end of an advancement turn, spend candy to activate one action row on the Store mat

Gain candy from exploring

When placing a tile on a hex with candy, instantly gain that candy