Community Garden: The Board Game
It’s time to make our Community Garden thrive! Players will use Gardeners to gather resources like water and compost, and then they will play cards ranging from Dill to Strawberries to Butternut Squash. The player who has scored the most points through growing their garden and collectingHarvest cards wins the game. But this is a community garden, so you’ll be helping your fellow players acquire the resources and tools they need to make their plots prosper as well.
Community Garden is a fun, strategic, easy-to-learn, beautiful game that has tons of joyful moments. 2 - 4 players, 45 - 60 minutes.
Community Garden is such a feel-good game. With a quick setup, easy teach, and cute theme, no doubt it's one of those games that will make it to the table pretty often.
A gorgeous and charming game of set collection plus worker placement... A delight!
Smooth as butter. Plays quickly and intuitively. Satisfying set collection with light combos. The worker placement is solid and engaging throughout.
Community Garden is a friendly competitive game. The only way to interact with other players is by helping them. Yet, the goal is still to finish the game with the most points at the end of 7 rounds!
On their turn, players will place one Gardener on the board to gain resources (water, compost, trowels, or seedlings) or draft Garden cards. Once a Gardener is placed, it remains in that space for the rest of the round.
Sometimes, however, you may want to share a space that other players are already in. In that case, you're not blocked - but you will need to spend Green Thumb tokens to join players in a busy location.
Players can also place their gardener on a Tool card (like Garden Gloves or Hand Weeder), using the unique effect listed on that card. This might allow you to trade in resources for ones you need, take an extra turn, or create a fun combination of effects.
On each player's turn, after they've placed a gardener, they'll be able to spend resources they've collected to plant Garden cards from their hand - placing it into their "plot" in front of them and scoring points by doing so. Played Garden cards will also provide instant bonuses. And if a garden card's bonus benefits all players, it's worth even more points!
On their turn, players will place one Gardener on the board to gain resources (water, compost, trowels, or seedlings) or draft Garden cards. Once a Gardener is placed, it remains in that space for the rest of the round.
Sometimes, however, you may want to share a space that other players are already in. In that case, you're not blocked - but you will need to spend Green Thumb tokens to join players in a busy location.
Players can also place their gardener on a Tool card (like Garden Gloves or Hand Weeder), using the unique effect listed on that card. This might allow you to trade in resources for ones you need, take an extra turn, or create a fun combination of effects.
On each player's turn, after they've placed a gardener, they'll be able to spend resources they've collected to plant Garden cards from their hand - placing it into their "plot" in front of them and scoring points by doing so. Played Garden cards will also provide instant bonuses. And if a garden card's bonus benefits all players, it's worth even more points!
Harvest Your Veggies
Any time a player completes a pair of the same color of Garden cards (such as two brown Garden cards) or a row of all the colors (brown, pink, silver, and red), they will draw bonus Harvest cards.
Each Harvest card is worth anywhere from 1 to 3 points, and players will add them to their final score at the end of the game. Players will therefore have to be strategic about what to plant in their garden.
The player who has scored the most points through planting Garden cards and collecting Harvest cards, wins the game!
Reviews
The Tabletop Times
"Community Garden offers a good amount of strategy in a very small box size. The rule book is really well written and easy to follow which makes it an easy teach to both experienced and new gamers alike... Community Garden is a good game at a good price."
Bert's Tabletop Games
"We played Community Garden with 2 players and it played really well at that player count as it does at larger player counts. The game is really easy to learn and has some good strategies with the worker placement and the resource management aspects. The game comes in a small box but the game play is big."
BGG Review
"The art is lovely, the game mechanics play wonderfully, and the balance between competitive and coincidentally cooperative leads to an excellent experience in this worker placement game... Overall this has become my go to for all skill level players for a feel-good but still mechanically interesting game."
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