Tea Garden

Tea Garden is a fantastic game by the talented debut designer Tom Holek, who also works on projects for the largest Czech publishers. The game brilliantly combines deck-building and worker-placement, but what truly stands out is the resource management. In Tea Garden, you pay with tea leaves green or black (fermented). The value of green tea leaves decreases each round, while the value of black tea leaves increases. However, you cannot obtain black tea leaves directly; you must exchange green tea leaves for black ones. This simple but ingenious mechanism creates a unique dynamic that is easy to fall in love with.