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Zen Garden

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2013 · 2-4 players · 30min · weight 1.78 · 242 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
134618
Name
Zen Garden
Year
2013
Rank
21240
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
30
Min playtime
15
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.7778
Num weights
9
Bayes avg
5.51401
Average
5.6595
Users rated
242
Num owned
720
Wanting
8
Wishing
47
Num comments
101
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:37:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Tile Placement
Categories (1)
Puzzle
Description (907 chars)

Game description from the publisher: Create a beautiful zen garden with friends or family. Craft a unique landscape using tiles representing meadows, mountains, forests, and water. Illuminate it all with magical lanterns that let you transform tiles and perfect patterns. Win by being first to create your secret pattern twice! Zen Garden is an artful struggle and two games in one. The basic game is a fast and simple tile-matching game in which you attempt to form patterns on the board before your fellow players can do the same. The first player to form her signature pattern on the board twice without wilds and with her special symbol scores maximum points. Players seeking more of a challenge can compete in "Rock Garden" designed by Coleman Charlton, in which players receive twelve "rock" cubes and play them on sets of tiles matching their pattern tiles. Place all of your rocks first to win.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.