Name: Gardens of Babylon
SKU: 6425
Price: 34.00 EUR
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6.5 out of 10
Michiel
Choose a tile, build it, move up with your worker, who then sows, which will seed the whole flow downwards. Quite nice, puzzly game. Perhaps best with two. Building on a side is saver as it is easier to protect your seeds and secure points. Not bad.
5 out of 10
jrubin1
OK - nothing special. Limited interest on every move. Better tile laying games (like Palmyra!!!). I don't say NO to the game, just...ok. REVISED 2022 - SOLD ...thank goodness.
4 out of 10
Impiousbe
A great strong point of this game is the rulebook. The rulebook is only 4 pages long yet hidden within is an enthralling tactical joust. Easy to learn hard to master was never so true as you try to outmanouvre your opponent. The long version can be, well, long. So far it feels to me as if the short version is the better choice as the long version makes it overstay its welcome. All in all a good tactial puzzle.

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King Nebuchadnezzar II has spoken: “Build me the most wondrous gardens the world has ever seen!” The gardening guilds of Babylon have answered, and it is now up to the players, as leaders of these guilds, to build one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and lead their guild to victory in the cutthroat world of competitive gardening.

Gardens of Babylon is a 1-4 player, competitive euro-style game in which players strive to earn the most points by planting flower seeds on the most valuable tiles. Taking turns, players place tiles to create a maze-like ziggurat of pathways, strategically move their gardeners to gain positional advantage, and plant seeds to claim tiles, earning victory points and triggering cascades down connected waterways to steal those of their opponents in the process!

Featuring simple rules and strategic thinking, Gardens of Babylon offers infinite replayability with 78 distinct ziggurat tiles that form a unique 2.5-dimension modular board. A novel cascade mechanism allows a well-placed seed to change the course of the game in an instant, offering emergent gameplay and keeping players on their toes until the very end.

—description from the publisher

Ages	10+
Players	Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time	60m – 60m
Designer	Stavros Polyviou
Mechanics	Card Drafting, Hand Management, Modular Board, Point to Point Movement, Take That, Tile Placement
Theme	Puzzle, Ancient
Publisher	Cackleberry Games