Botanicus

Phase 1: Move Gardener, Play Garden Card

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Now, let’s take a look at what your turn actually looks like!

So how do you go about planting, watering, and all the other great stuff?

Your turn always consists of 2 phases. There is a short overview of these phases on the upper left corner of your Garden.

1. Move your Gardener and/or play 1 Garden card (in either order)

At the start of your turn, you can move your Gardener in your Garden. Your Gardener always moves from one footprint to the next. They can only move along the paths, not diagonally. (No hopping over the Flower beds!)

You can move your Gardener any number of spaces, but each step costs 1 Coin. If you have no Coins, you can’t move your Gardener.

You move your Gardener 2 spaces. This costs you 2 Coins.

You can also play exactly 1 Garden card from your hand. When doing so, you always have 2 options:

If you want to use the card’s action (in the center of the card), you have to pay 2 Coins. Then you immediately perform the action.

Instead, you can choose to “sell” the card. In that case, you do not perform the action and instead gain 3 Coins.

First, you play this card, pay 2 Coins, and plant 2 level II Plants within range of your Gardener. Then you spend another 2 Coins to move your Gardener to this space.

After you play a Garden card, place it face up on the discard pile. You can perform the Move and Play a Garden card actions in either order. You can also perform only one action, or neither. However, you must always complete one action before starting the other.

Then move on to Phase 2.