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May 6, 2025·How to play·14:26·149·Watch on YouTube

How to Play Hedge Mage (Rules School)

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Watch “How to Play Hedge Mage (Rules School),” a how-to-play guide for Hedge Mage from Game Boy Geek on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Game Boy Geek on YouTube:

Skip the rule book and learn How to play Hedge Mage by Floodgate Games! I’ll teach you how to play so you can skip the rulebook! If you have more rules question place them here - https://boardgamegeek.com/video/552660/hedge-mage/how-to-play-hedge-mage-rules-school BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/420089/hedge-mage 0:00 - Introduction 0:55 - 1 Minute Overview 2:00 - Setup 4:37 - Object of the Game 5:13 - Flow of the Game 5:20 - Maze Building Phase 5:36 - Placing a Tile 7:08 - Calculating Movement Points 8:05 - Maze Running Phase 10:12 - Rescuing Gnomes 10:44 - Bonus Tokens 11:33 - More Movement Rules 12:47 - End of the Game 13:00 - Final Scoring 13:55 - Expansion See all the Rules School’s here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSn1bMZH_6Q2mmkGNOEGz-LVJ95fdVMcl The Game Boy Geek Produces Hi-Quality, Hi-Energy Board Games review with new content at least every other day. Meet up on these Web & social media platforms: Website - http://www.GameBoyGeek.com Facebook - http://www.Facebook.com/TheGameBoyGeek Twitter - http://www.Twitter.com/TheGameBoyGeek Instagram - http://www.Instagram.com/TheGameBoyGeek

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Hedge Mage

Hedge Mage

2025·Connor Wake

Videos
14
Creators
12

Mainly reviews. Hedge Mage is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 1 other video.

2 - 4 players
30 - 45 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Hedge Mage, from BoardGameGeek:

In Hedge Mage, you build a hedge maze of polyominoes to prevent your rival from stealing your gnomes, while simultaneously navigating your other neighbor's maze to nab their gnomes. In this puzzly combination of polyomino placement and tactical movement, these moderately powered wizards have only two powers: grow shrubs, and animate garden gnomes. To sneak into your neighboring mage's yard to yoink their gnomes, while keeping another rival mage from snagging yours, it's going to take both powers you've got. Harness your horticulture magic to gather the greatest gnome collection! In more detail, each player builds their hedge maze piece by piece at the same time. By using clever placement, you'll both hinder your rival's mages and gain movement points each round. Each player uses their movement points to maneuver their mages through their rival's maze in order to awaken each gnome according to specific enchantment cards. If all ten hedge cards have been revealed, or if a player has rescued all gnomes from their rival's board, the game ends and you move on to scoring. Whoever has the most points wins!

Designer

Connor Wake

Artist

Josh Nelson

Publisher

Floodgate Games

Categories

MazeMiniatures

Mechanics

Grid MovementArea Movement
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