Orchard: 9 Card Solitaire has been super popular winning a ton of awards. This Humble Solo game Began as an entry by Mark Tuck in the 2018 9-Card Nanogame Print and Play Design, it has then gone on to win that contest and to also win Board Game Geek’s 2018 Golden Geek Award for Print and Play Games.
This Print and Play is Available for free find out more details and gets your own copy below.
About the Game
Orchard is a quick solitaire ’tile laying’ game that plays in under 10 minutes.
The aim of the game is to harvest fruit (score points) by playing cards so that their fruit trees overlap other trees already in the orchard that bear the same fruit.
The more trees you can overlap, the more fruit you’ll pick.
As well as the 9 double-sided cards, you’ll need 15 dice (of 3 colours) to keep track of your increasing harvest, and 2 cubes to represent ‘rotten’ fruit.
These allow you to lay a card that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to – but come with a points forfeit.
So you must decide if and when to play them.
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Instead, the rules and (most) components are available in a digital format, and players are expected to print them off and assemble them themselves.
Often, some additional, non-printable components are required as well like dice or player pieces but in most cases, even these components can be created using cardboard and paper elements.
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How to Download
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