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Cottage Garden

Plant flower beds

You are an avid gardener and want to complete the beds in your garden. A nursery is laid out with the side correspo9nding to the number of players and is filled with flower tiles; the rest of the tiles is laid out as a path, with the wheelbarrow at the end.

You begin with one planting table with three orange and three blue scoring cubes at the start, plus two random flowerbeds. In the Refilling Phase, you refill the row at the location of the gardener die from the path. In the Planting Phase, you tale a flower tile from the row with the gardener die or a flower pot from stock and place it in your bed; cases showing a flower pot or a plant cover can, but should not, be covered; you can also always place a cat from your stock. Then, the gardener die moves one step; at the finish, his value is raised by one for the next lap. If it arrives at “6“, the final round begins.

Completed beds are scored for visible flower pots and plant covers - you mark your score with one of your three scoring cubes; if one arrives at 20, surplus points are forfeit; you cannot split a score between cubes. Scorings can give you more flower pots and cats, cats are none-scoring filler to complete beds. A bed that was scored is put back in stock and you take a new one. You have 32/26/25 turns in case of 2/3/4 players plus one final round, in which you might have to discard an uncompleted bed and might be able to complete another uncomplete one, until all beds are back in stock.

Graphically beautiful, nice game play, but a bit monotonous after a few games; a bit simpler than Patchwork, offering many tactical options.

Players: 1-4

Age: 8+

Time: 60+

Designer: Uwe Rosenberg

Artist: Andrea Boekhoff, Martin Kleinke

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Edition Spielwiese 2017

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Tile placement

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: cn de en es fr hu it jp kr pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Advancement of Patchwork

Good mechanisms

Many tactical options

Beautiful graphics

Compares to:

Patchwork

Other editions:

Compaya.hu (hu), Cranio Creations (it), Game Harbour (cn), Hobby Japan (jp), Happy Baobab (kr), Rebel (pl), SD Games (es), Stronghold (en), Blackrock (fr)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0