Nature is peaceful. This game is not. Arboretum is a strategic card game where you're building the most beautiful garden path through a canopy of cherry blossoms, dogwoods, maples, and more — while quietly making sure your opponents can't score theirs.
Each turn you draw two cards, lay one in your growing arboretum, and discard one. The catch: only the player with the highest value of a tree species in hand gets to score paths of that species at the end. So every card you play is a calculated risk, and every card you discard is a gift — or a trap — for the person sitting next to you.
The rules fit on one page. The strategy runs surprisingly deep. And the art by Beth Sobel is genuinely gorgeous — lush, detailed botanical illustrations that make the whole thing feel like a coffee table book you're also competing over.
A near-perfect game for two, and a great one for up to four. One of those rare designs that gets better the more you understand it.
80 cards · 2–4 players · Ages 8 and up · 30 minutes
