ABANDON ALL ARTICHOKES

Ages 10+ years      2 to 4 players      Play time: 20 minutes

A heartless card game.

This isn’t your garden-variety card game! A bumper-crop of prickly produce has overtaken your patch, and there’s only one choice: Abandon All Artichokes™! Prune your deck by harvesting fresh vegetables, each with a special power that lets you swap, discard or compost cards. You’ll need luck, strategy and a green thumb to grow a winning hand!

• In the game Abandon All Artichokes™ by Gamewright®, you must scramble to get rid of a bumper crop of artichokes.
• The object of the game is to harvest vegetables to build your deck and gain new powers, while abandoning artichokes by any means necessary. If you're able to draw a hand free of artichokes at the end of your turn, you win the game!
• How to play: 
  • Players each start with a personal deck of 10 artichoke cards that they’re trying to get rid of. They do so by getting other vegetables that give them special powers — such as ditching those pesky artichokes.
  • Shuffle the deck of (non-artichoke) vegetables to form the Garden Stack, and then reveal the top 5 cards to create the Garden Row.
  • The player who most recently ate a cooked green vegetable goes first!
  • On your turn, you do the following in order:
    1. Refill the Garden Row to 5 cards if needed.
    2. Harvest 1 card from the Garden Row to your hand.
    3. Play any number of cards from your hand.
    4. Discard the rest of your hand.
    5. Draw 5 cards from your deck. (If you don’t have enough cards to draw 5, even after reshuffling your discard pile, then just draw as many as possible.)
  • At the end of your turn, if you draw a hand of cards and there are no artichokes, you immediately win, and shout “Abandon all Artichokes!”
• Award winning: American Tabletop Early Gamers Winner, Dice Tower Seal of Approval, Geek Dad Game of the Year Winner, Mensa Recommended Game, and Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner.
• What's in the box: 100 cards (40 artichoke cards + 60 vegetable cards (6 cards each of 10 different vegetables), 4 player reference cards and Rules of Play.

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