In Château Gardens, you are 18th-century architects laying out gardens for capricious French nobles. You will draw your own blueprints piece by piece as the next elements of the garden are revealed, trying to plan how to fit each planting area in the available space and configure your arrangement to set up the best views for nobles from their platforms. Keep going as long as you can meet their random demands, then graciously bow out or press your luck for a few more items - but be careful, any elements you cannot fit will count against you.
Château Gardens plays in a series of rounds that each have the following steps:
1) A player draws a card from the top of the deck and places it face-up where
all players can see.
2) All players attempt to draw a shape on their garden grid following the
rules for the revealed card.
3) All players write the score for the shape they drew in the Score Area at the
bottom of their play sheet.
4) Once all players are done with these, proceed to the next round.
Continue through rounds of adding to their gardens, gaining points for each shape they can place and losing points for shapes they cannot. Each player has one ""suppléant"" (substitute in French) card that you can use to change the revealed card for every player, but you can only use it once during the whole game! When you think you're out of room in your garden, you can choose to stop at any time. Once every player has stopped, the game is over; total up your points and find out who won!
You can watch a teach and playthrough of Chateau Gardens on Youtube by the designer Zach & the WizardofMoe team here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TJZuf2EDs or by Out of the Box Board Games here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_iTHj81lQ "
DETAILS
- Players: 1-8
- Ages: 10+
- Length: 30-45 Minutes
CREDITS
- Publisher: Grazing Bear Games
- Designer: Zach Sullivan
- Art: Diego Sanchez
PNP DETAILS
- Page count: 18
- Components: 1 Play Sheet/Player
- Additional components needed: 1 Writing Utensil/Player, 1 Playing Card Deck
