Arboretum
Included in
Cards & Tokens
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2-3 players
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1-8 of each suit (for 2-player game, discard 2 suits)
Setup
- Shuffle the deck, deal 7 to each player face down.
Gameplay
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On their turn, players do all three things in order:
- Draw 2 cards
- Play 1 card to Arboretum
- Discard 1 card to your own discard pile
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Draw 2 cards
To draw cards, you can either draw from the deck or from the top of any player's discard pile.
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Play 1 card to Arboretum
Play 1 card from your hand to your Arboretum. First card goes anywhere, after that, following cards must be adjacent (not diagonal) in same orientation.
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Discard 1 card
Discard one of your cards to your own discard pile.
End of game
- The game ends when there's no more cards to draw from the deck.
Scoring
A path is a sequence of cards of increasing value where first and last are of the same suit.
For each suit, the only player who scores, is the one who has the highest sum of that suit in their hand. If one player has 8 and another player has 1 in their hand, the 8 becomes a 0.
In case of a tie, all tied players can score.
Scoring a path
A player can only score one path per suit.
The only cards in a path that must share a suit are the first and last.
+1 point per card in a path
+1 point per card in a path if all cards in path are same suit and path is at least 4 cards long
+1 point if the path starts with a 1
+2 point if the path ends with a 8
Player with the highest score at the end wins