Reef is an abstract strategy game from Emerson Matscuuchi in which players build up their boards by playing cards and scoring based on the patterns of their coral stacks. On your turn, you can either play a card from your hand or take a card and add it to your hand. Each card will give you two pieces of coral to place anywhere on your board (as long as a stack of coral won't be higher than four pieces) before checking a scoring condition on the bottom part of the card. When one of the four types of coral runs out, the round finishes out before points are tallied and a winner is declared!

Reef is a beautiful game that is simple to learn and satisfying to play as you discover its surprising depth.