{"id":3982,"date":"2017-03-04T09:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/cottage-garden-charming-artwork-sleeping-cats-make-a-gentle-game-great\/"},"modified":"2017-03-04T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T16:03:49","slug":"cottage-garden-charming-artwork-sleeping-cats-make-a-gentle-game-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/cottage-garden-charming-artwork-sleeping-cats-make-a-gentle-game-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottage Garden: Charming artwork, sleeping cats make a gentle game great"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to Ars Cardboard, generic<\/a> our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com<\/a>\u2014and let us know what you think.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sometimes, search<\/a> as serious gamers living through a golden age of board game invention, nurse<\/a> you want to sit down to a three-hour cardboard extravaganza of cards, dials, miniatures, tokens, custom dice, and two-volume rulebooks.<\/p>\n

But other times,\u00a0you just want to\u00a0play something fun that doesn\u2019t involve 20 minutes of set-up\u2014and something that\u00a0your mom\u00a0can understand. Cottage Garden<\/em> is precisely that game, an hour\u2019s worth of gentle, intuitive loveliness in a box.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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