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Aug 19, 2026·How to play·15:14·14·Watch on YouTube

How to Play Cottage Garden - Complete Rules in One Video (Uwe Rosenberg)

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Watch “How to Play Cottage Garden - Complete Rules in One Video (Uwe Rosenberg),” a how-to-play guide for Cottage Garden from TheRulebook on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by TheRulebook on YouTube:

Learn how to play Cottage Garden, Uwe Rosenberg's cozy polyomino puzzle for 1-4 players! This is a COMPLETE guide - setup, every rule, the sneaky-deep cube scoring, the final round, and solo play. By the end, you'll be ready to teach it at your own table. Cottage Garden (2016, Edition Spielwiese) takes the Tetris-style puzzle of Patchwork and opens it up to the whole table. Fill your flowerbeds with flower tiles, keep your pots and plant covers in the sunlight, and let the sleeping cats handle the awkward gaps. 🌻 MORE ROSENBERG POLYOMINO GUIDES I'm covering the whole Rosenberg polyomino line on this channel - Check out my Cottage Garden Automa video for the best way to play solo! https://youtu.be/dTZDXrW8LQ0 Cottage Garden Review: https://youtu.be/-ZGJdKdVOJI ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:12 Quick Overview 01:37 Components 02:27 Setup 04:10 Reading Your Flowerbed 04:59 Your Turn (Refill, Planting, Cats) 08:25 Scoring a Flowerbed (the 4 Pulls) 11:17 The Final Round 12:51 Game End & Winner 13:19 The Solo Game 14:21 Outro 🎲 GAME INFO Designer: Uwe Rosenberg | Artist: Andrea Boekhoff Publisher: Edition Spielwiese / Pegasus Spiele Players: 1-4 | Time: 45-60 min | Ages: 8+ 👍 If this guide helped you, a like tells YouTube to show it to more gardeners. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for a new board game guide every week - so you never have to read the rulebook alone. 💬 Got a rules question? Drop it in the comments - I answer every one. #CottageGarden #BoardGames #HowToPlay #UweRosenberg #TabletopGames

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Cottage Garden

Cottage Garden

2016·Uwe Rosenberg

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Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Cottage Garden is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, and 1 recorded sessions.

1 - 4 players
60 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Cottage Garden, from BoardGameGeek:

In Cottage Garden, you compete in the art of gardening and are working two beds with a variety of flowers. Whenever no unplanted box is visible on a bed, you have completed it, then you count your points and replace it with a fresh, unplanted bed. You gain points for all of the visible plant pots and planting bells. In more detail, players select various polyomino tiles of flower beds from a central market grid, depending on the location of the "gardener", then place them on one of their two personal garden boards. Each board has several garden elements that are worth points when not planted over, and these are scored on two different tracks as soon as a garden has been finished. Crossing over a line on each track awards bonus tokens that can fill in empty spaces or give you a better selection of the flower bed tiles. Whenever a garden is finished, you receive a new one to complete. After the gardener completes her fifth lap around the market, the game enters its last round. The player with the most points from their completed gardens at the end of the game wins. Cottage Garden is the first part of Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy.

Designer

Uwe Rosenberg

Artist

Andrea Boekhoff

Publisher

Edition Spielwiese

Categories

Abstract StrategyFarming

Mechanics

Pattern BuildingDrafting
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