Grachtenpand

Build the most beautiful Amsterdam canal houses, full of shops, cats, seagulls and tulips in this fun card game!

Grachtenpand is a light hand drafting game for 2-4 players where you build an idyllic set of canal houses. You build the houses using 'bases', 'floors' and 'roofs'

Each turn, each player simultaneously chooses one card from their hand and builds it, using the rules detailed below.
After building their cards, each player passes the remaining three cards to the player on their left. After receiving a new hand of three cards from the player to their right, each player chooses a type of card (base, front, or roof) and draws one card of that type from the corresponding deck into their hand to refresh it to four cards.

A completed house consists of a base at the bottom, any number of
front cards, and one roof at the top. When building a house, you must build
from the bottom-up (starting with a base and ending with a roof)

When you build a base, you start a new incomplete house by placing it to the left or right of an existing base (or starting your first house if it’s the first card you build)

When you build a front, add it to the top of any of your incomplete houses. Once you build a roof, that house is complete, and may not be built any further.

Each player scores points for flowers, colors, bases, and roofs

Flowers: Score 1 point for each window with flowers you have in your tableau

Colors: Find the largest continuous group of cards of one color. Score 1 point for each card in that group.

Bases and Roofs: Each base and roof card in your tableau has a condition and a point value. If the building this base is a part of meets the condition on the base, you score all the points on the card. If it does not meet the condition, you lose 2 points for this card. Scoring conditions may refer to the number of seagulls, flags, or cats visible on the building. They may also refer to their own height, or the height of the buildings to their left or right. A building’s height is the number of cards in the building (base, fronts, and roof).