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Botanists

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  1. 5 out of 10

    I really wanted to like this, but it feels very flawed. There's not any way to prepare for your turn while other players are taking their turns because what they do affects the options you have, so it felt like a lot of waiting.

  2. 6 out of 10

    so this is an interesting thematic resource management board game with flowers , botanists and nice colors. you take the role of a botanist who’s traveling in a flower market attending his garden and you fulfill flower orders to gather points. the interesting part is the movements is Tetris like and you have to keep an eye on the market ( what is changing along play ) and your board to make sure that you will take the right flower and to fulfill the order.

  3. 9 out of 10

    I love this game. It's simple to teach, the basic concept is really easy entry. After demoing it one hundred something times, it was great to discover new combos and possibilities. The game opened up quite a few combo possibilities. The more obvious ones of course being the ones that allow you to swap with the market or other players, but really the movement one is quite powerful at the right time, and also the reserving an order is amazing in certain cases. For example, sometimes you might be able to fulfill two orders in the open market, but you are allowed to only fulfill one of those per turn, so you can flip a tile you collected to activate the green power, reserve one of those two orders, and suddenly you can fulfill both because you are allowed one personal and one open order per turn. Looking for opportunities like these ones is one of the most rewarding things about this game. Once players get the hang of it, it really speeds up gameplay too. Super good!

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In Botanists, players tend a small area of land to grow flowers, which they then hope to sell. As botanists, each of the players has three small plots of land dedicated to growing the most popular flowers among their usual clients. However, all players obtain the seeds to those flowers from the same supplier, and because not all flowers are equally popular, the supplier only sells the seeds in bundles, on top of that, other botanists might attempt to snatch certain seeds away from under your nose!

Players take turns in acquiring flowers from the flower market. To do so, they may first move and then play a card that determines what "bundle" they are buying.

With each purchase, players will acquire seeds they are not looking for, so players are required to keep an eye out for open orders to make sure they make the best out of each turn.

Alternatively, players may choose to tend their marginal land (not so fertile), in which case they won’t be able to buy new seeds, but instead will be able to trigger a bonus action. In doing so however, players will end up with withered flowers, which will generate negative points at the end of the game.

At the end of their turn, players check the open orders and if they are able to fulfill any of them, they not only earn bonus points, but also get rid of potential negative points.

—description from publisher

Ages

10+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

30m – 60m
Designer

Violaine Malié
Mechanics

Pattern Building, Pattern Recognition, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers
Theme

Abstract Strategy
Publisher

Agie Games
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