Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Low interaction
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Who will have the most beautiful Christmas tree? Who will decorate their Christmas tree in the smartest way?
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Set Collection
Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Read the full game description
Who will have the most beautiful Christmas tree? Who will decorate their Christmas tree in the smartest way? This game revolves around these questions, because the winner of the game is the player who decorated the most beautiful and most precious Christmas tree. If you want to be that player, you have to care about the other player’s Christmas trees too, you have to pay attention to the way they are decorating their trees. Christmas Tree is a card game for children and adults, families and experienced players too, wherein each player decorates their Christmas tree on the basis of different decorating aspects. The Christmas Trees are evaluated many times during the game and at the end of the game too, and the player who gathered the most points wins the game. —description from the publisher Components: 4 player boards 106 ornament cards† • 72 glass ornaments • 18 gingerbreads • 16 wrapped candies 30 objective cards • 15 for all game types • 6 more for the family game and the advanced game • 9 more for the advanced game 16 linzer cookies 1 point tracker 8 point tokens Some changes in the Second Edition: 72 score tokens in the value of 1/5/10/20/50 (instead of the point tracker) † rhombic and thus unsleevable