Gnome Hollow

Since the beginning of time, gnomes have been the humble guardians of nature. In secret, they emerge from their underground homes to maintain meticulous rings of mushrooms known to humans as "fairy rings." But the work must be done quickly, because as soon as the mushroom trail ends, the mushrooms are ready for picking. Who will be the smartest gnome and collect the most mushrooms by the end of the season?

Gnome Hollow is a tile- and worker-placement space game where you grow a tabletop garden of mushrooms and flowers. Each piece is a hand-painted watercolor that captures the whimsical feel of gnomes and nature. Turns are deceptively simple: players place tiles in the garden and move a gnome to perform a single action on their turn.

But placing a tile and performing an action can create extremely satisfying gameplay combinations. Players strategically place tiles and develop rings of valuable mushrooms. Once a ring is complete, they harvest each mushroom and eventually take it to the market to sell for the shiniest treasures available in the hollow.

Small mushroom rings offer small rewards. Larger mushroom rings offer bigger rewards! Completing a new circle automatically increases your score. The player board automatically calculates your increasing score each time you move a ring marker to unlock your latest reward. This means that each completed mushroom ring offers new strategic choices and important bonuses for individual players.

As you grow your garden, certain rewards give players access to rare markers. Once placed in completed rings, markers become unique placement points for all gnomes in the Hollow.

Wildflowers are literally wild and can complete any ring or solve tricky problems during the game. Planting them grants players a wildflower token. Other players can move onto a flower as an action to collect the same wildflower token. When these tokens are placed on individual player boards, they become a valuable set-gathering strategy while simultaneously building towards the end of the game.

Gnomes visit the Pinwheel Market to fulfill orders for mushrooms and obtain treasure in the form of bottle caps, buttons, feathers, crystals, and skeleton keys. Each card offers two options. You can choose to complete the top half to obtain a little treasure, or complete the bottom half to obtain the most. The white part of the card offers players a mushroom exchange that can be used in later rounds by visiting road signs.

Smarter players will carefully plan their strategy, balancing mushroom ring building with trips to the market, as well as expanding their personal collection of wildflowers growing in the garden. As the game progresses, it is as much about playing a beautiful game as it is about a wonderful journey to strategically defeat your opponents.

Come to Gnome Hollow and experience a peaceful garden, the thrill of competing to collect buckets of mushrooms, and the reward of collecting all your shiny treasures!