Gardeners

Categories: Deduction, Real-time

Mechanics: Communication Limits, Cooperative Game, Deduction, Pattern Recognition, Real-Time, Score-and-Reset Game, Solo/Solitaire Game, Square Grid, Tile Placement

Players: 1–4

Ages: 10+

Playtime: 15 Min

In Gardeners, you and your fellow players act as gardeners for a whimsical king who has specific and ever-changing ideas about how his magnificent garden should be arranged. The twist? The king sends different directives to each gardener and forgets them as soon as they're met, causing you to start from scratch repeatedly.

This simultaneous cooperative game is played in silence and real-time. During each round, marked by the sand timer, you must arrange gardens using the same tiles but under different constraints each time. As you work, you'll need to deduce the current constraints by observing how tiles are placed or removed.

The goal is to score as many Constraint cards as possible by meeting the king's ever-shifting requirements.