How to Play Seikatsu | Official Rules

In the game of Seikatsu - a word that means "life" in Japanese - players tend a shared garden between each of their pagodas, and compete to have the most breathtaking view of the finished garden.

Take turns drawing and playing Garden tiles that feature both a bird and a flower to create flocks of birds and rows of flowers, as seen from your pagoda. Who has the best view of the garden? It's all a matter of perspective!

Components

• 1 Garden board
• 32 garden tiles
• 1 Cloth Bag
• 3 Scoring Pawns
• 4 Koi Pond Tiles

Setup

1 Lay out the Garden board in the center of the play area, and rotate it so that each player is directly facing one of the Pagodas on the board. The pagoda you are facing determines your player color. In a 2-player game use only the pink and blue pagodas.

3 Put all Garden tiles in the Cloth bag and mix them well.

4 In a 2-player game, draw 2 tiles at random from the Cloth bag and place them on the two spaces adjacent to the koi pond at the center of the Garden board that have flowers.

In a 3-player game, draw 3 tiles from the Cloth bag and place them on the three spaces adjacent to the koi pond at the center of the Garden board that have flowers.

5 Add the Koi Pond tiles to the Cloth bag and mix well.

6 Each player draws 2 tiles from the cloth bag, facedown, into their hand.

7 The wisest player takes the Cloth bag and goes first.