When events transpire in a person's life, it is often unclear what the future holds. However, looking back, great achievements happen when the dots come together, and everything happens as it should.

Tiles of fortune is a "fortune-telling game" for 1 or more people. Through the laying of tiles, players construct a narrative of a person's life, and through this, see parallels with reality, and help divine paths in your own life.

Each tile has a rune which represents an important thing in life, such as friend, foe, journey, labour, meeting, the sea, fire, prophecy, failure, love, trial, death, etc. Each rune also has 1-3 gems, and the color of the gems also hold meaning: - Yellow: wealth, possessions - Red: power, fame - Blue: wisdom, secrets - Green: vigor, courage - White: piety, destiny

Players play tiles from the table, either from five face up tiles, or any not yet revealed tile. The new tile must be played next to a tile with a 'free gem' of a color the tile has. The remainder gems become 'free gems' The player should then narrate the event, based on the gems and the rune. Use tokens to keep track of free gems.

At the start of the game, players should decide on a background and name for the protagonist.

For example, there is a friend tile with a free blue gem. I place a blue/yellow journey tile next to the friend tile, remove the blue token, then place a yellow token on the new tile. The even would be perhaps King Arthur, on the advice of Merlin, goes on a journey to acquire the holy grail.

If instead there were a free yellow gem, the same tile would produce a free blue gem, and the story might be Young Arthur is funded by Sir Kay to receive knightly training.

The game ends when no tile can be played.

About Tiles

White gems are wildcards, and can be matched with any color.

1 gem tiles are disasters.

2 gem tiles are used to move free gems. Yellow is most common, but is never matched with white.

Using up two free gems with one tile is a 'fateful event', and you may place one white free gem anywhere on the board.

A new tile can only draw 1 free gem from each adjacent tile.

3 gem tiles can increase the number of free gems. If a 3 gem tile uses 3 free gems, this is a 'monumental event', and the highlight of the protagonist's life, where everything comes together just right.You may play any tile without using free gems.

Competitive play

Each player has a face up 'hand' of tiles, players may play from this hand, or draw and play a facedown tile from the table. When a player is unable to play a tile, they lose and shuffle their hand back into the poo. If all tiles are used, whoever plays the most monumental events wins, with ties broken by fateful events.

A two player strategy game of move and countermove, with a twist of deduction.

Each player receives 19 tiles. 1 chief tile, plus 3 each of six different symbols. The chief tile has one crystal each of red, green, and blue. The other tiles have only one coloured crystal. The chief tile has arrows pointing in all eight directions. Of the 18 symbol tiles, nine have arrows pointing orthogonally and nine have arrows pointing diagonally. The symbols themselves could be basically anything, so as to leave room for distinctiveness in the craftsmanship between different game sets.

The game board is a non-rectangular grid with nine rows. It is ten tiles wide in the center row with two rows of eight, two rows of six, and one row of four on each side. Each space has crystals in it. The spaces around the outside and the four in the middle of the center row have all three colours, the remainder have only two colours. The rows of four are covered and the four spaces in the middle need to be distinctively marked (providing more room for craftsmanship).

To start the game each player selects four tiles and discretely places them in their covered spaces. Next the players select five tiles to use as starting pieces. These tiles plus the chief tile are placed in the first row of six spaces, in any order. The edge of the tile with the crystals indicates who controls it, so they need to be placed accordingly.

Players alternate moving one piece at a time. A tile can be moved in the direction of any of its arrows to any open space in that direction where there is a like coloured crystal. No jumping over pieces. Opponent tiles can be removed from the board by moving a tile to an occupied space, but the crystal on your tile must be a different colour than on the opponent tile. You can take control of an opponent's tile by putting it in a position where it has no moves. You can gain new tiles by moving a tile to either of the spaces at the end of the row of ten. The new tile is placed in any open space in your first row of six.

The goal of the game is to either figure out your opponent's hidden tiles or control all of the tiles in play. If you move a tile to the space in front of one of your opponent's hidden tiles and the symbol matches, your opponent must reveal it. The four spaces in middle of the center row are deduction spaces. If you move a tile to a deduction space and there are tiles in all four deduction spaces (regardless of who controls the tiles), your opponent must state how many symbols match their hidden tiles. If the tiles in the deduction spaces match your opponent's hidden tiles exactly, you win.