
2023Reiner Knizia
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Pick a Pen: Gardens is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
Each turn in Pick a Pen: Gardens, the active player rolls the five colored pencils, then chooses one and marks spaces on their individual player sheet. Each other player in turn drafts a pencil and uses it. Pencils show symbols on their different sides, and the symbols on top of the chosen pencil determine what players do on their sheets. Each sheet shows bordered gardens, and on a turn, you fill in the indicated number of spaces in that color; all of those spaces must be adjacent to one another, in addition to being adjacent to everything colored previously. Your goal is to fill gardens with only a single color or with five different colors, scoring bonus points as you do so. The game ends when a player has completely colored all of their gardens or failed to color in five times. Pick a Pen: Gardens includes three difficulty levels of player sheets, with flowers and trees on sheets 2 and 3 to help you earn bonus points in different ways.
Pick a Pen: Gardens has 10 videos from 10 creators: 4 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough and 1 unboxing. They date from 2023 to October 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Pick a Pen Gardens - How To Play Video" by MeepleCare, which runs 12 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Pick a Pen Review: A Pencil is Just a Lead Pen" by The Dice Tower. 4 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Pick a Pen: Gardens - GameNight! Se11 Ep42 - How to Play and Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek.
If you like it, try Ra, Rebirth, The Quest for El Dorado and My City, also by Reiner Knizia.
8 of 10
2017Reiner Knizia
2 - 4 players30 - 60 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Each turn in Pick a Pen: Gardens, the active player rolls the five colored pencils, then chooses one and marks spaces on their individual player sheet. Each other player in turn drafts a pencil and uses it. Pencils show symbols on their different sides, and the symbols on top of the chosen pencil determine what players do on their sheets. Each sheet shows bordered gardens, and on a turn, you fill in the indicated number of spaces in that color; all of those spaces must be adjacent to one another, in addition to being adjacent to everything colored previously. Your goal is to fill gardens with only a single color or with five different colors, scoring bonus points as you do so. The game ends when a player has completely colored all of their gardens or failed to color in five times. Pick a Pen: Gardens includes three difficulty levels of player sheets, with flowers and trees on sheets 2 and 3 to help you earn bonus points in different ways.
Designer
Reiner Knizia
Artist
Marlies Barends
Publisher
999 Games
Categories
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