Maui (EN) Toys and Games

ORIGINAL GAME IN ENGLISH: Locals and tourists in Maui are heading to the beach for a chance to find a nice spot to lay their towels and enjoy the amazing view of the Hawaiian ocean. In Maui, you want to find and place beachgoers on your sand so they create patterns of enjoyment, while also marking their towels near the ocean or under the shade of trees or umbrellas to earn the most points. As always, getting too close to either of these areas is risky and can ruin your plans! In the game, you have your own beach board with room for 13 towels. The board has seven rows where towels can be placed, and during setup, you randomly place eight umbrellas in designated locations on your board. Each player places a random towel in the leftmost column of their board; each towel has three different patterns on it. Place six random tiles in the two rows of the market and one sand dollar in each row. On a turn, either take all the sand dollars from either row of the market or take a towel from the market; towels cost 0, 1, or 2 sand dollars, with those dollars being placed in the market row. When you place a towel, you must match at least one pattern with the towel that's rightmost on your beach board and you want to match as many patterns as possible. For each match you make, you advance that pattern's scoring marker 1-3 spaces on the score board; the closer to the ocean or the shade the more points you score, but if you place part of a towel outside the play area, you're penalized. If you cover an umbrella, you receive its bonus, whether that's advancing a pattern's scoring marker or receiving one of two types of pearls. When someone places a towel in the final column of your beach board, you complete the round, so see who has the highest points of patterns, pearls and sand dollars on the left, which are increasingly worth a point. Instead of playing with umbrellas, you can flip your beach board to find a septet of sand crabs. Whenever you cover a crab with a towel, the crab crawls onto that portion of the towel, costing you both that pattern and a few points.