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Abandon All Artichokes

Emma Larkins · Gamewright · 2020

A deck-thinning game — your starting deck is full of artichokes, and you win by drawing a hand with zero artichokes. Buy vegetable cards that help remove artichokes from your deck through various powers. The goal of emptying rather than building your deck is refreshingly different.

Players

2–4

Time

20 min

Ages

10+

Difficulty

Light

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Why you'll like it

The deck-thinning concept is a clever inversion
Plays in 20 minutes
Rules are immediately intuitive
The veggie theme is charming
Great introduction to deck-manipulation concepts

How it plays

In Abandon All Artichokes, your deck starts full of artichoke cards, and your goal is to get rid of them. Each turn you take a vegetable from the garden row and play cards for their effects.

Each vegetable lets you discard or compost artichokes in a different way. The first player to draw a hand with no artichokes wins. It's a short, two-to-four-player deck-building game that's a good introduction to the genre.