Miyabi

A tile-drafting puzzle about layering stones, trees, and ponds into the most elegant garden.

👥 2–4 players⏱ approx. 45 min🪄 A round to warm up8+

★ 6.4 · BGG #1,694

Who it's for

Suited to fans of quiet, visual puzzle games who enjoy optimizing a grid and don't mind a bit of spatial planning ahead of time.

Not for you if…

If you want direct player interaction or table talk, look elsewhere — Miyabi is a mostly solitary puzzle race with limited confrontation.

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Vibe's take

Calm and cerebral — turns are quiet drafting decisions, but the layered grid rewards players who can visualize how tiles stack and interact several moves ahead.

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About this game

Miyabi turns you into a Japanese garden designer competing to build the most elegant, harmonious landscape of the season. You draft and layer tiles — stones, bushes, trees, ponds, and pagodas — across multiple levels of your garden grid, chasing specific patterns for points. With five expansions built right into the box, the puzzle keeps evolving long after your first design.

Multi-level tile layeringOpen drafting each roundFive expansions included

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