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SeabassDebeste 01/28/20 7:47:42 PM #392:	56. Cottage Garden (2016) Category: Player vs Player Genres: Drafting, tile-laying Rules complexity (0 to 7): 2 Game length: 30-45 minutes Experience: 2-3 games over 2-3 sessions with 3-4 players (2017-2019) Summary - Each player is filling in their own rectangular-grid fields with Tetris pieces. Fill in a field and it clears, and you score both red points and blue points, depending on how many are still showing (though you may also cover them for expediency/sanity). On your turn you draft a tile from a grid, based on an arrow that moves around the perimeter of the board. Design - Cottage Garden is simple. In fact, it's the spiritual (and mechanical!) sequence to Patchwork, designer Uwe Rosenberg's two-player first foray into tetramino-drafting and -laying. It's an inherently solitary puzzle, and the hate-drafting in Cottage Garden is of course smaller than Patchwork, accommodating more than two players. Anyway, Cottage Garden is more adorable than Patchwork (you can use a cat to fill a gap for some reason. It's cute.) You push a little wheelbarrow around at the beginning of your turn. The offer mechanic might be a little out of place and there's not a lot going on in a game that's probably just beyond a filler for new players. But man, it's cute, it's relaxing, and it's fun. Experience - We gifted Cottage Garden to a friend for her birthday and have played it two or three times. We consider it a requirement to make a squeaky sound as you push the wheelbarrow, which is about as roleplay-y or goofy as we ever get in a game. Later play went faster than the first - perhaps because it was three players instead of four, but perhaps because of familiarity with rules leading to snappier decisions - and it was really nice. Future - I actually am pretty inclined to play Cottage Garden again. Want my primary gaming mate to get to experience it! There are eurogames of similar complexity higher up on this list, but it's possible that with more reps, Cottage Garden could make a play to fill that niche as well. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:933617977] in another ye... [t:78284791]...</cite> <quote>56. Cottage Garden (2016) Category: Player vs Player Genres: Drafting, tile-laying Rules complexity (0 to 7): 2 Game length: 30-45 minutes Experience: 2-3 games over 2-3 sessions with 3-4 players (2017-2019) Summary - Each player is filling in their own rectangular-grid fields with Tetris pieces. Fill in a field and it clears, and you score both red points and blue points, depending on how many are still showing (though you may also cover them for expediency/sanity). On your turn you draft a tile from a grid, based on an arrow that moves around the perimeter of the board. Design - Cottage Garden is simple. In fact, it's the spiritual (and mechanical!) sequence to Patchwork, designer Uwe Rosenberg's two-player first foray into tetramino-drafting and -laying. It's an inherently solitary puzzle, and the hate-drafting in Cottage Garden is of course smaller than Patchwork, accommodating more than two players. Anyway, Cottage Garden is more adorable than Patchwork (you can use a cat to fill a gap for some reason. It's cute.) You push a little wheelbarrow around at the beginning of your turn. The offer mechanic might be a little out of place and there's not a lot going on in a game that's probably just beyond a filler for new players. But man, it's cute, it's relaxing, and it's fun. Experience - We gifted Cottage Garden to a friend for her birthday and have played it two or three times. We consider it a requirement to make a squeaky sound as you push the wheelbarrow, which is about as roleplay-y or goofy as we ever get in a game. Later play went faster than the first - perhaps because it was three players instead of four, but perhaps because of familiarity with rules leading to snappier decisions - and it was really nice. Future - I actually am pretty inclined to play Cottage Garden again. Want my primary gaming mate to get to experience it! There are eurogames of similar complexity higher up on this list, but it's possible that with more reps, Cottage Garden could make a play to fill that niche as well. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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