The players take turns placing hexagonal tiles on an empty surface, creating the "board" as the game progresses.

The two players alternately place tiles, starting with White.

It is legal (and perhaps encouraged) to place tiles so as to connect two features with followers together.

Members of the public placed mosaic tiles on to seven purple petals.

Additionally, you may only place tiles on empty squares.

Rack constraints: You may only place tiles with letters on your rack.

As players move their ship counters to explore the grid, they place tiles which determine the shape of islands.

You build these words by placing lettered tiles on a grid.

Players first take turns to place square tiles on the squares to set up the game.

The strategy in placing tiles is thus usually to wait to place stronger tiles until they have a strong chance of not being immediately trapped.