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Pick a Pen: Gardens

Pick a Pen: Gardens

2023·Reiner Knizia

Videos
10
Creators
10

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.

2 - 4 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

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

Watch first

Learn to play

Pick a Pen Gardens - How To Play Video12:06

Pick a Pen Gardens - How To Play Video

MeepleCare

MeepleCare

Review

Pick a Pen Review: A Pencil is Just a Lead Pen13:06

Pick a Pen Review: A Pencil is Just a Lead Pen

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

Watch it played

Pick a Pen: Gardens - GameNight! Se11 Ep42 - How to Play and Playthrough1:12:10

Pick a Pen: Gardens - GameNight! Se11 Ep42 - How to Play and Playthrough

BoardGameGeek

BoardGameGeek

Which Pick a Pen: Gardens video should I watch?

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.

All videos

Pick a Pen: Gardens - GameNight! Se11 Ep42 - How to Play and PlaythroughPlaythrough1:12:10

Pick a Pen: Gardens - GameNight! Se11 Ep42 - How to Play and Playthrough

BoardGameGeek

BoardGameGeek

Pick a Pen Review: A Pencil is Just a Lead PenReview13:06

Pick a Pen Review: A Pencil is Just a Lead Pen

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

Pick a Pen Gardens - How To Play VideoHow to play12:06

Pick a Pen Gardens - How To Play Video

MeepleCare

MeepleCare

Pick a Pen (Amigo) Roll & Write - Schattkammern, Riffe oder Gärten - Was lohnt sich?Review19:00

Pick a Pen (Amigo) Roll & Write - Schattkammern, Riffe oder Gärten - Was lohnt sich?

SpieleBlog

SpieleBlog

All the Games with Steph: Pick a Pen GardensHow to play33:09

All the Games with Steph: Pick a Pen Gardens

Steph Hodge

Steph Hodge

Pick-a-Pen: Tuinen (NL)How to play11:12

Pick-a-Pen: Tuinen (NL)

Nox' Spellenzolder

Nox' Spellenzolder

Pick a Pen Tuinen - Uitleg (NL)How to play4:31

Pick a Pen Tuinen - Uitleg (NL)

De Spelletjes Vrienden

De Spelletjes Vrienden

Pick A Pen | A Roll & Write where you roll what you write with! It's Pick A Pen.Unboxing7:55

Pick A Pen | A Roll & Write where you roll what you write with! It's Pick A Pen.

The Tabletop Misfits

The Tabletop Misfits

Knizia in 5 Minutes. 32 Pick A Pen Tuinen.Review5:50

Knizia in 5 Minutes. 32 Pick A Pen Tuinen.

Doug Adams

Doug Adams

PICK A PEN: GARDENS | An Abstract, Pencil Drafting Game (My Overview & Review)Review10:45

PICK A PEN: GARDENS | An Abstract, Pencil Drafting Game (My Overview & Review)

Tabletop Tolson

Tabletop Tolson

8 of 10

Creators who cover this

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BoardGameGeek
BoardGameGeek
1 video of this game
De Spelletjes Vrienden
De Spelletjes Vrienden
1 video of this game
Doug Adams
Doug Adams
1 video of this game
MeepleCare
MeepleCare
1 video of this game
Nox' Spellenzolder
Nox' Spellenzolder
1 video of this game
SpieleBlog
SpieleBlog
1 video of this game
Steph Hodge
Steph Hodge
1 video of this game
Tabletop Tolson
Tabletop Tolson
1 video of this game

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About Pick a Pen: Gardens

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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Mechanics

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