How to play Pumasi

Village spots

• Paddy Get rice
• Field Get cloth
• Hill Get wood
• Market Pay wood, swap it for rice and cloth (costs Wood 1)
• Well People gather, and you get labor
• Village school Pay rice, get a lot of labor (costs Rice 1)

A spot that costs something can only be used after you hold it, which is why order is the skill.

Where the two neighbor houses go

Hiding it would make it luck, so we write down the rules of the 2 houses as they are.

• Upper house. Picks the front of the spots that are left. It takes the Paddy and the Field well.
• Lower house. Picks the back of the spots that are left. That means the Well and the Village school.
• Both avoid spots that cost something. They are simple houses that do not count what they hold.

So the middle spots (Hill and Market) mostly come to you, while the Paddy and the Field are better grabbed first when you stand at the front.

Getting through the days you place late

The starting house changes every day, and with three houses you stand first once every three days, and some days you place fourth or fifth.

1. Grab the scarce spots on the days you stand first. The neighbors want the Paddy and the Field too, so you cannot get there on any other day.
2. On late days, go to a spot that costs something. The neighbors avoid them, so the Market and the Village school are still open late. If you already hold wood and rice, late days get easier.
3. Look at all four days as one. If you pick the best move one day at a time, you miss a spot on the last day because you have nothing to pay.

Common traps

• Leaving labor for last and not getting it. The Well gives one at a time and the Village school costs rice. On a day that needs labor, hold one rice from the first day.
• Aiming at the Market without wood. The Market costs wood. Even when it is open, you cannot go.
• Rushing to grab the spots the neighbors avoid. The Market and the Village school stay open late, so it pays to use your early turns on the Paddy and the Field.

Why you can always fill it

When we set the order, we count everything you can actually gather within 4 days, and we do not set an order that is not among them. A day you cannot fill is wasted effort, not a game.

We also do not set an order that fills no matter how you place. Anything that comes out by always sending to the first open spot is left out of the orders. Then there would be no reason to choose.

One board a day, the same village for everyone

The order comes from the date of the day, so everyone who visits on the same day has to meet the same target, and you can compare whether you filled it. Everything runs in your browser and there is no sign-up.