BLOOOOOOM 2026

First place random tiles (flowers) face up, 1 per sand space at the gameboard grid, and give each player a pawn (animal).

Place your animal in one of the stone spaces and let it face the middle of the gameboard.

After choosing these start spots, turns proceed in clockwise order. On each turn, first rotate your animal a quarter turn left or right, or leave it unrotated. Then move your animal 1 or more spaces straight in the direction it’s looking, to a tile with more flowers than any tile with the same flower type in your collection. Add that tile to your collection.

Your game ends when you cannot take any tile. Other players continue as long as they can still collect a tile each turn.

You score 1/3/6/10/15/21/28/36/45/55 points per flower type for having, respectively, 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10 tiles of that flower type.

So focus on certain flowers, but you can never pick a lower number of the same type!

—description from the publisher