How to Play
Simple to learn, endlessly replayable. Here's everything you need to get started.
Setup
Shuffle the 160-card deck. Deal 5 cards to each player. Place one card face-up in the center of the table to start the grid. Keep the remaining cards as a draw pile.
On Your Turn
Play a card from your hand adjacent to any existing card on the grid. The colored pip on your card's edge must match the pip on the neighboring card's edge.
Tell a story — share a memory, thought, or idea connected to the word on your card. This is where the magic happens.
Draw a card from the draw pile to refill your hand.
Card Types
Happiness Cards
Worth 1-4 Joy Points (JP). Play them to build the grid and score. Higher JP = rarer and more powerful.
Bummer Cards
The risk/reward wildcard. Place on the grid to shatter adjacent cards. More cards shattered = bigger reward.
Pip Matching
Each card has 4 colored pip triangles on its edges (top, right, bottom, left). When you place a card, its edge pip must match the neighboring card's adjacent pip.
Scoring Joy Points
When you play a Happiness card, you score its JP value (1-4). Simple as that. The strategy is in where you place it and what moves it sets up.
Bummer Cards & Shattering
When you play a Bummer card, it shatters adjacent cards where pips match. The more cards you shatter, the bigger the reward. But if you shatter nothing? You lose points.
| Shattered | Result |
|---|---|
| 0 | -2 JP |
| 1 | -2x shattered JP |
| 2 | +1x shattered JP |
| 3 | +2x shattered JP |
| 4 | +3x shattered JP |
The ultimate bummer is destroying 4 cards — nearly impossible but incredibly rewarding.
Euphoria
Surround a card on all 4 sides with matching pips. When this happens, the total JP of all 5 cards (center + 4 surrounding) is doubled.
The most satisfying moment in the game.
Winning
The game ends when the draw pile is empty and all players have played down to 3 cards remaining. The player with the most Joy Points wins!
Difficulty Modes
Easy Mode
- Silver pips are wildcards — match any color
- Scores can't go below zero
- Great for new players and families
Hard Mode
- Silver is its own color — must match exactly
- Scores can go negative
- For experienced players seeking challenge