Part 1: Meet the Clients: Michael

To keep things interesting in the days leading to the start of the game (and to give me a chance to introduce some extra rules in a more digestible manner), I'll reveal our current Clients, one at a time, and talk about their Demands and the scoring system a bit more. The Clients are divided in 3 decks (one per type), so each game will always have 1 Build, 1 Layout and 1 Design Client.

So without further ado, after shuffling the Build deck, let's meet Michael!

As a Build type Client, Michael is interested in the construction of specific Rooms in specific configurations. To be honest, this is hardly a strict rule - in fact, Michael's Demands have some overlap with both Design and Layout ones. Let's have a look at what his needs are:

• Well-Decorated: the requirements for this request are rather generous, since you won't need to build a specific type of Room(s) to complete it; howhever, the unique Furnishing arrangements is a bit trickier than it happears at a glance.
  
  1. First of all, for an arrangement to be considered valid, the Furnishing pieces have to connect orthogonally (IE: not diagonally).
     
     
  2. Second, to be considered unique, no other arrangement can match it, including rotating the arrangement. Mirroring may be valid, if it's a different configuration that you cannot get by simply rotating the original arrangement.
     
     
  3. Remind that you can score a Demand multiple times, but you can't reuse already scored items for the same Demand. That said, to score this Demand twice you would need at least 6 rooms and at least 3 unique Furnishing arrangements (the Furnishing arrangement shape only needs to be unique in the scope of a single Demand).
     
     In the example above, both sets of Rooms are scoring even if the Furnishing arrangement are duplicated among sets. Also note that you don't need to use different type of Rooms for this Demand, but you can if you want to.
     
• Patio Fountain: this is simpler, but still has a tricky rule to remember in case you want to score it multiple times - as an exception to the general rule, the scoring part of a Pool is the water inside and not the Stones.
  
  In the example on the left, both arrangements are scoring points since they both have (unique B+D)+(unique Pool). In the example on the right, only one of the arrangements can be scored since the second one lacks the (unique Pool). The fact that the central column of Stones is shared between Pools is an exception to the general rules on scoring.
  

Feel free to ask any question or clarification!