2025 · Abstract Strategy
The Hanging Gardens
Players act as royal gardeners in ancient Babylon, drafting and placing Garden cards to assemble a layered hanging garden for the king and queen. Play proceeds over four rounds; each round players use three Gardeners to select and place three cards, managing placement to create connected groups, meet objective goals, and trigger placement bonuses. Resources such as tools and gold influence options and serve as tiebreakers. Scoring rewards fulfilled objectives, arranged features, and optimized card placement; the highest total after four rounds wins, with ties broken by tools and coins.
- Players
- 1–5 best 3
- Playing time
- 30 min
- Age
- 10+
- Complexity
- 2.1 / 5
About the game
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Full stats in Ludoya- 14
- Plays logged
- 19
- Players
- 14m 30s
- Average play
- 2
- In collections
- 1
- On wishlists
7.0/10
from 1 Ludoya review
Rules questions
Free, on web, Android and iOS
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