The Butterfly Garden

Should this hit the table?

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The Butterfly Garden has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to pay attention to each other's actions frequently, but there is less emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.4

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.1

Scales well

Strategy 4.7

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

The Butterfly Garden has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to pay attention to each other's actions frequently, but there is less emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

The Butterfly Garden has a high variability gameboard, offering different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. The game provides deep strategic possibilities and room for improvement over time. Player interaction is moderate. The game scales well with different numbers of players without compromising its appeal or balance. It is relatively easy to learn, making it accessible to a wide range of players. Overall, The Butterfly Garden has a strong replayability score of 7.95.

Luck profile

The Butterfly Garden has a moderate level of luck involved in the game. Random elements such as card draws and dice rolls have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. However, players have substantial ability to mitigate the effects of luck through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role. Overall, The Butterfly Garden strikes a good balance between luck and strategy, making it an engaging and enjoyable board game for players who enjoy a mix of both elements.

Overview

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In The Butterfly Garden, you are an avid butterfly collector and the local butterfly garden needs your help expanding and diversifying its collection. Capture highly desired butterflies, put them in your trusty jar, and deliver them to the garden to gain respect from the collecting community and to help diversify the garden — but watch out for your opponents as lepidopterists can be quite devious! The game is played in a series of rounds. Players start each round by playing a card from their hands to determine the round's turn order. Cards are numbered from 0 to 59, and lower numbered cards will go first. On a turn, a player captures butterflies from the field and adds them to the jar (i.e., they take a card from the row of face-up cards and tuck it under their jar card). When possible, players "deliver butterflies" from their jars to the zoo's butterfly garden to score victory points (VPs). Which butterflies can be delivered is indicated on the face-up "delivery cards" and players are often in a race to deliver butterflies to take the cards and score points. The player with the most VPs at the end of the game wins. During the game, players must carefully decide which butterfly cards to play. By playing lowered numbered cards, players not only get a better pick of butterflies in the field, but they also get first chance at delivering butterflies. However, lower numbered butterfly cards usually have fewer butterflies on them, so players cannot add as many to their jars. Also, butterfly cards with special powers usually have high numbers, so you often must sacrifice turn order in order to use one of these special powers.

Mechanism

5

Auction/Bidding Hand Management Open Drafting Set Collection Simultaneous Action Selection

Family

3

Animals: Butterflies Animals: Insects Crowdfunding: Kickstarter

Type

1

Family

Media

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