Vicious Gardens

Gardening is usually a peaceful thing. In Vicious Gardens it is rather different. Here you grow your own garden full of tricks, but you are also happily busy thoroughly ruining the gardens of your fellow players. Whoever claims the title of Official Master Gardener at the end may call themselves boss of the vegetable patch. You lay plant cards in front of you in different beds. Those plants score points, but it is all about timing. When do you harvest? Do it too early and you miss out on points. Wait too long and someone else takes their chance. With Specialists you can get in your opponents' way, although those cards take up space in your hand and sometimes come at a steep price. So you keep having to choose: build up or sabotage. You pick up the rules quickly, and yet it stays exciting until the last moment. In the final round the points can fly in all directions, so the winner is often only known at the very end. With changing powers every turn and a team variant for 4 or 6 players, it stays fun to play together for a long time.