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Hedge Mage

Hedge Mage

Floodgate Games · 2025
2–430–45 min0+ yrs2.7/5 complexity6.9 BGG#14.342 BGG255Kids
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How do you play Hedge Mage?

In Hedge Mage, you build a hedge maze of polyominoes to prevent your rival from stealing your gnomes, while simultaneously navigating your other neighbor's maze to nab their gnomes.

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Hedge Mage box art
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In Hedge Mage, you build a hedge maze of polyominoes to prevent your rival from stealing your gnomes, while simultaneously navigating your other neighbor's maze to nab their gnomes.

In this puzzly combination of polyomino placement and tactical movement, these moderately powered wizards have only two powers: grow shrubs, and animate garden gnomes. To sneak into your neighboring mage's yard to yoink their gnomes, while keeping another rival mage from snagging yours, it's going to take both powers you've got. Harness your horticulture magic to gather the greatest gnome collection!

In more detail, each player builds their hedge maze piece by piece at the same time. By using clever placement, you'll both hinder your rival's mages and gain movement points each round. Each player uses their movement points to maneuver their mages through their rival's maze in order to awaken each gnome according to specific enchantment cards. If all ten hedge cards have been revealed, or if a player has rescued all gnomes from their rival's board, the game ends and you move on to scoring. Whoever has the most points wins!

🔬 game anatomy
Complexity2.7 / 5
BGG rating6.9 / 10
Vibe
Kids
Language dependence
Some text — easily memorized
🌐 plays without English
Play time
30–45 min
Players
2–4
Recommended age
0+ yrs
BGG rank
#14.342

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Q3How do you play Hedge Mage?
Hedge Mage is a maze game, for 2–4 players, taking ~30–45 minutes, featuring grid movement. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Hedge Mage — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Hedge Mage support?
Hedge Mage is played by 2–4 players.
Q5How long does a game of Hedge Mage take?
A game of Hedge Mage takes about 30–45 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Hedge Mage for?
Hedge Mage is recommended from age 0.
Q7How complex is Hedge Mage?
Hedge Mage has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 2.7 out of 5.
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