Bud Barons is a fun race to the top, growing and harvesting your Buds while sabotaging your opponents’ crops! The first one to sell Buds for a gain of 20 or more coins is the winner! Collect coins from game to game to purchase cosmetic items/accessories for your game avatar! Be the first to complete all game achievements!
To get going with Bud Barons, first shuffle the purple Event Deck and the green Plant Deck, deal one Plant to each player, face up in their first Plant Slot. Deal from the Event Deck, 5 cards per Player. Place the Bud, Turn and Coin counters where all Players can reach. Each player rolls a 6 sided die. Highest roll goes first; proceed clockwise (to your left).
There are 5 steps to each Player Turn:
Continue this process for each Player. The first to earn 20 coins from Harvesting is the Winner!
Harvesting: When playing a Harvest Card, the Player is able to take a number of Buds off their own Plants equal to the amount designated/rolled on the particular Harvest Card played. Those Buds can then be changed for Coins, at the rate indicated by rolling the Transfer Rate Die. The Player must sell for at least one Coin, and will always be able to get at least one Coin (even if the Harvest doesn’t get any/enough Buds) from trading Buds for Coins at this rate. 2 Buds per Coin is the best rate, so a common strategy is to save all the Buds one can until the next chance to roll a better rate.
Plant Decay: Each Plant Card has a Max Turns rating. During Plant Maintenance on the round following a Plant’s last round (no more Buds can be added), if there are any Buds left, remove half of the remaining Buds, add another Turn counter. Do this same process every round until all Buds are depleted, then discard the Plant. A Plant can be discarded at the appropriate part of the Player’s Turn at any time in this process. Discarded Plants lose any remaining Buds to the discard pile, as well.