Gamehelpfourgardens

Overview

Play cards to build Panoramas and please the Gods

Turn

Each turn, you have 3 action points to spend on the same or different actions, which also come with a card cost (either play or discard depending on the action). After which, draw back up to 5 cards from either the seen or unseen supply.

Lay Groundwork - For this action, choose a card in your hand and play it faceup (groundwork side). When choosing what to play, you cannot play a card if it is the same colour AND panorama number as another card in your display (e.g. you have a blue 2nd, you can play an orange 2nd, but not another blue 2nd). The Panorama number is the shaded circle on the group of circles in top left, e.g. if the second circle is shaded, this is the 2nd in its panorama. At this point, the sequence does NOT matter, e.g. you can play blue 2nd prior to playing blue 1st. Your Groundwork area can hold at most 3 Groundwork cards at any one point.

Rotate and Collect - For this action, choose a card in hand with the Pagoda symbol (a stack of 4 floors with one shaded). The shaded floor tells you which floor will be rotated by this card, and this will also rotate all floors above it too (but not the lower ones). The rotation is 90 degrees in a direction of your choosing. Once rotated, check the card again, this shows whether your are performing an upwards or downwards collection. Collect all resources shown on the side of the Pagoda now facing you in the direction indicated (up or down) until either they have all been collected or your Planning Area is full, this may mean you do not get the resources you wanted as you CANNOT skip unwanted resources

Take a Wild - For this action, discard a card in your hand showing four resources and an arrow to a card, after which take a resource of your choosing and either add it to an active groundwork card or to your Planning Area if space is available

Reallocate Resources - For this action, discard a card with the Handcart symbol on it, this allows you to move any and all of your resources in the following manners: From Planning Area to Active Groundwork card, From one Active Groundwork Card to a different Active Groundwork card, From your Planning Area back to the General Supply (this is how to get rid of unwanted resources)

Landscape Completion

If you have resources on an Active Groundwork card which match the ones asked for in its lower box, it is now completed and flipped before being moved to the Panorama area

Move forward a single space on the God track associated with the card

If this was not the first card in the set, take the rewards of all previous cards from the same set

Some cards have the Wild God symbol, for this you can choose which God to advance on, and can change this choice every time the card is activated by the set bonus

If you reach the end of a God track and would progress on that God again, instead move ALL opponent markers on that God track backwards one step

If moving a player's marker backwards knocks it off that God track, it is removed and can no longer advance on that God track

If multiple Groundworks are completed at the same time, pick one to fully resolve before resolving another

Bonuses

If you complete a Panorama, take a bonus tile of your choice, you cannot repeat the same Bonus tile

Planning Tile Expansion - This increases the storage capacity of your Planning Area by 1

Take Wilds - Take the highest value still available, and this value determines a number of bonus Take Wild actions you can immediately take and resolve at that point, you cannot save some for later

Extra Rewards - Take the highest value still available, this is raw points at game end

Game End

The game end is triggered when a player completes 8/9/10 Groundwork Cards in 4/3/2 players, finish the current round in full

Gain points for your position on each of the God Tracks

Gain points shown on Extra Rewards tile if collected

The player with the most points, wins!

If tied, the player with the most completed Groundwork cards wins!

If still tied, the player with the largest completed Panorama wins!

Summarised by https://boardgamearena.com/player?id=90078516