# Tea Garden

Tea Garden is a board game for 2–4 players. It plays in 90–120 minutes and is meant for ages 12 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 3. It is rated 7.2 out of 10 by 10 Ludoya reviewers. The cheapest copy in stock is $47.99 (United States).

- **Players:** 2–4 (best with 3)
- **Playing time:** 90–120 minutes
- **Minimum age:** 12+
- **Complexity:** 3.1 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2024
- **Categories:** Economic, Ancient, Farming
- **Mechanics:** End Game Bonuses, Automatic Resource Growth, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
- **Ludoya rating:** 7.2 out of 10, from 10 reviews
- **Owned by:** 32 Ludoya players
- **Plays logged on Ludoya:** 68
- **Unique players:** 118

**Designers:** Tomáš Holek

**Artists:** Barbora Srp Žižková

**Publishers:** Albi

## Where to buy in United States

| Shop | Price | Link |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gamers Guild AZ | 47.99 $ | https://gamersguildaz.com/products/tea-garden |
| Atomic Empire | 47.99 $ | https://www.atomicempire.com/Item/368048 |
| Cardhaus Games | 47.99 $ | https://www.cardhaus.com/tea-garden/ |
| 401 Games | 59.95 $ | https://store.401games.ca/products/tea-garden |
| Mathom | 40.48 € | https://mathom.es/es/otros-juegos-de-tablero/58045-jardines-de-te-8436578819690.html |
| Milan Spiele | 39.9 € | https://www.milan-spiele.de/tea-garden-engl-p-37116.html |
| Good Games | 70.75 $ | https://www.goodgames.com.au/products/tea-garden-preorder |
| TLAMA games | 1109 Kč | https://www.tlamagames.com/deskove-hry/cajova-zahrada/ |
| Travelling Man | 39.99 £ | https://travellingman.com/products/tea-garden |
| Svet deskovych her | 1169 Kč | https://www.svet-deskovych-her.cz/produkty/13917/cajova-zahrada |
| World of Board Games | 549 kr | https://www.worldofboardgames.com/creature-caravan |
| Ludifolie | 48.9 € | https://www.ludifolie.com/24372-tea-garden.html |
| Spelexperten | 556 kr | https://www.spelexperten.com/sallskapsspel/strategispel/tea-garden.html |
| Reflexshop | 17990 Ft | https://reflexshop.hu/a-tea-titka |
| Zatu Games | 44.9 £ | https://zatu.com/products/tea-garden |
| Games Empire | 87.99 $ | https://gamesempire.com.au/products/tea-garden |
| Alphaspel | 619 kr | https://alphaspel.se/491-bradspel/306272-tea-garden |
| Get Your Fun | 54.99 € | https://www.getyourfun.it/035974-tea-garden-giochi-gestionali.html |
| Hyggeonkel | 449.95 kr | https://www.hyggeonkel.dk/produkt/tea-garden-34195 |
| Spielezar | 59.9 Fr. | https://www.spielezar.ch/brettspiele/tea-garden |
| Spilforsyningen | 499.95 kr | https://spilforsyningen.dk/products/tea-garden-eng |
| Game Ninja | 749 kr | https://www.gameninja.no/produkt/tea-garden/ |
| Fantasiapelit | 74.6 € | https://www.fantasiapelit.com/index.php?main=ai&kat=single&mista=indeksi&etsittava=_241688 |
| Nexus | 10995 kr | https://nexus.is/vara/tea-garden/ |

## Expansions

- [Tea Garden: Puerh](https://www.ludoya.com/games/tea-garden-puer)
- [Tea Garden: Promo Cards](https://www.ludoya.com/games/tea-garden-essen-2024-promo-cards)

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## Rules questions

### Can I build a Tea Garden anywhere on the map?

You may place a new Tea Garden on any available space in a Region adjacent to a Region where you already own a Tea Garden; to cross one extra border you may instead pay +2 strength above the garden's requirement (you cannot build in a Region where you already have a garden and you may build only one garden as a main action). (Rulebook p.5)

### When I buy an Action card, do Teapot symbols on cards underneath my topmost played card count toward the cost?

No — only Teapot symbols on the topmost played card(s) in your playing area count toward a card’s Teapot requirement; Teapot symbols on cards stacked beneath the topmost card do not count. You must also meet the displayed strength and pay the printed Tea Leaf/Teapot cost. (Rulebook p.5)

### What exactly do I need to do to take a Caravan card (selling tea)?

To acquire a Caravan you must satisfy one condition from the trade part (pay the required Tea Leaves into the supply — green symbols can be any leaf, brown require fermented) and one condition from the strength part (attain one of the listed strength values with your played cards); you then take the Caravan, immediately score its VPs and keep the card for end-game scoring. (Rulebook pp.5–6)

### How does Fermentation work and how many leaves can I ferment on that action?

As the Fermentation main action you turn up to a number of fresh (green) Tea Leaves equal to your played strength to the brown (fermented) side, keeping them in the same baskets; fermented leaves increase in quality during later ripening while fresh leaves may lose quality. (Rulebook pp.6, 8)

### When do Cup tiles score and what does a Cup token do?

Cup Production gives you Cup tiles from Province stacks where you have at least one garden; same-colour connections on your rows score Victory Points at end game according to the cup scoring table, and each time you connect two tiles you place a Cup token on that connection which can be removed later as a one-time free action to gain the adjacent Cup’s bonus. (Rulebook pp.6–7, 9)

### What happens in the Maintenance phase — do we still perform it after the 5th round?

Maintenance steps: advance the round marker and starting player, remove the leftmost action card and shift the display, move played cards to discard, perform Tea Ripening (green leaves shift down one quality, brown shift up one), harvest 2 fresh leaves per garden, then draw 4 cards for the next round; there is no Maintenance phase after the 5th round (the game ends). (Rulebook pp.8–9)

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/tea-garden)
- [Tea Garden in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/tea-garden)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/422042)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-09-18. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._