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Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare

Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare

Borzag Games · 2016
2–65–15 min7+ yrs1.0/5 complexity6.6 BGG
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How do you play Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare?

Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare is a modified rock-paper-scissors on steroids, with cute garden gnomes casting deadly spells at each other. You have to outguess your opponents and pick spells that counter the spells they have chosen.

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Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare is a modified rock-paper-scissors on steroids, with cute garden gnomes casting deadly spells at each other. You have to outguess your opponents and pick spells that counter the spells they have chosen.

Each players represents a tribe of garden gnomes, and each tribe is at war with its neighbors. During initial set-up, each player receives a special power card that determines which type of spells their tribe is skilled at casting; these can be any of the five types: flames, water, plants, insects or earth.

During each round of play, each player selects one of the five different spells to cast against each of their neighbors. (If only one opponent remains, you pick only one spell.) You cannot pick the same spell for each opponent. All spells are then simultaneously revealed, and a winner is determined on each of the battlefronts. (There is also a possibility of a draw, in which case none of the players win, and none of the players lose.) The winning player then deals one damage to the losing player's tribe, and +1 damage if they have the special power for the element they used to win (or +2 if they have two of the same special power).

Each player starts the game with ten tribe-members, and the last tribe alive wins.

game anatomy
Complexity1.0 / 5
BGG rating6.6 / 10
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
5–15 min
Players
2–6
Recommended age
7+ yrs
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Q3How do you play Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare?
Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare is a bluffing game, for 2–6 players, taking ~5–15 minutes, featuring rock-paper-scissors. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare support?
Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare is played by 2–6 players.
Q5How long does a game of Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare take?
A game of Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare takes about 5–15 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare for?
Garden Gnomes: Wizard Warfare is recommended from age 7.
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