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Overview
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Turn
You can move your Gardener as far as you like following the footprints, but each movement costs 1 coin, and you are not required to move the gardener at all
You can play a card, but don't have to. If you do, you can only play one, and can choose to either pay to use its action or sell it, the value for paying and selling are shown on the card
Once you have done both, one, or neither of these actions, you can then move on to placing a Flower
Move your Flower to the next column you are not in
If you place your Flower on an empty space, you take the space's action and the action connected to it, in either order
If you place your Flower on an occupied space, you only take the action connected to it and NOT the space's action, additionally pay 3 coin to the bank for each other Flower already present on the space
Turn order is also determined by the Flower columns, whoever has the highest flower on the most historic column takes the next turn, highest is both the space's height and the flower's height in the same column i.e. a player who paid to take the same action as another will therefore go earlier in turn order next round
Tasks
Each garden row has two tasks, a basic and special
At the start of the game, you can decide which row has which special task, but each row can only contain one (also some tasks require 4 Flowers, which means they can only be placed in certain rows)
The tasks give requirements for that row of flowers, but the order the flowers appear in doesn't matter
You must complete a row's basic task before you can complete its special task
However, you do NOT have to complete one row's tasks before completing another