Sanssouci

Your task in the Sanssouci tile game is to create a flower garden for the famous Sanssouci Palace. Competing with up to three other landscape architects, you'll have your own game board to design a garden on which you'll build rose gardens and vineyard terraces, mazes and fountains - but not just anywhere, mind you. No, landscapers have to meet certain construction requirements and, unfortunately, you won't always have everything you might need at hand.

In terms of gameplay, each player has a personal garden divided into rows and columns; each row indicates a color, while each column indicates one of nine garden elements, such as wells or a pavilion. Players start with a noble at the top of each column. A shared tile supply board has five rows - with colored spaces corresponding to the colors of each player board - and two columns, which are not labeled. At the start of the game, ten tiles are placed on this board; each tile represents one of the nine garden elements.

On each turn, a player plays one of his two cards in hand, which determines which tile he can take from the supply, e.g., take a pavilion tile, take a red or gray space tile, etc. The player has only one card that allows him to take any tile - but if he plays a card showing a garden feature that is not present, then he can take any tile! The player must place this tile on his game board in the column that matches the image of the tile and in the row that matches the color in which the tile was taken. If that space is already filled, he flips the tile to show the gardener on the other side, then places that tile on any free space in the same row or column. After placing the tile, he may move one of his nobles along a path of placed tiles, provided the noble ends up in the same column where he started, but on a lower row. The player scores a number of points equal to the row reached.

The player then fills the reserve and draws a new card. The game ends after 18 rounds. Each player then receives bonus points for each completed row and column. In addition, each player received two order cards at the beginning of the game, each representing one of the nine columns; each player receives bonus points for the row reached by the nobleman in that column. The player with the most points wins.

Game with rules in Spanish, but no text on the game material.