Ikebana 2026

In Ikebana, players collect flower cards and arrange them into floral arrangements in their personal display. The aim is to complete arrangements that meet as many of the currently available scoring conditions as possible.

On your turn, you may first exchange one card from your hand with a card from the shared display. You then play one or two cards from your hand, either starting a new arrangement or adding them to existing ones. Cards in an arrangement must be placed in ascending numerical order, although numbers may be skipped or repeated.

After adding cards, you may score eligible arrangements that contain at least four cards and meet at least one of the current scoring conditions. Once scored, an arrangement is completed and can no longer be changed. Its value at the end of the game is the number of cards in the arrangement multiplied by the number of scoring conditions it fulfilled when it was completed. At the end of your turn, you refill your hand to four cards, either by drawing cards from the deck or by taking cards back from your unfinished arrangements.

When the end-of-game card is drawn, the current round is completed so that all players have taken the same number of turns, followed by one final round. Players then add up the values of their completed arrangements. The player with the most points wins; ties are broken in favor of the player who collected the most scoring markers.

—description from the publisher