Objective of the Game

Have the most points by having the highest value card in your hand and creating high scoring pathes with that suit.

Setup

Shuffle cards 1-8 in 6/8/10 suits for 2/3/4 players; deal 7 to each player, the rest of the cards form a face-down draw deck. First player is whichever player most recently watered a plant.

Gameplay

Each turn draw 2 cards (from the face-down deck or any player's face-up discard pile). Then play 1 card into your arboretum/tableau (after the first, must be adjacent to a card already there), then discard one to your own face-up discard pile. End of Game: The game ends when the draw pile is empty at which the player that drew the last card plays out their turn. For each suit, compare sum value of cards left in each player's hand, only the highest sum gets to score for that suit. If one player has 8 and another has the 1, the 8 is considered to be 0 for this comparsion Score: Each path that scores must be a sequence of orthogonally adjacent cards of ascending value starting and ending on the suit. ● 1 point for each card in the path ● 1 additional point for each card in path if all of the same species and at least 4 cards long ● 1 additonal point for starting with the "1" value ● 2 additional points for ending with the "8" value Tiebreaker: In the case of a tie, the tied player with the most species present in their arboretum wins. If there is still a tie, the tied players must each plant a tree. In five years' time, the player whose tree has grown the tallest wins.

Rules Source: The Everdeck Companion Vol. 1