A pretend game lets you practise spreading and swinging, with nothing real at stake.
Garden Market is a board game with six gardens, and every coin in it is pretend. Each player starts with sixty coins, as six tokens of ten.
Each round a weather card says how every garden did. The weather is made up, so nobody's coins can be hurt.
A game lets you practice spreading and swinging with nothing real at stake. It does not tell the future.
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
60 coins. 6 × 10 = 60.
96 coins. 6 × 16 = 96.
48 coins. 6 × 8 = 48.
No. A game can practice thinking, and nothing more.
Play a board game with a grown-up. Afterwards, talk about a moment when you took a chance, and what happened.
Play a board game together, then talk about a moment when you took a chance and what happened. Garden Market is made up, and playing it says nothing about real markets or what to buy.
