Verdant FAQ
51 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Game Start
- How many green thumb tokens does each player start with in a two-player game?
- At setup, can the starting plant and room be placed in any orthogonal arrangement?
- Does a starting plant get verdancy if its starting room already matches its lighting?
- Is the 5x3 grid's boundary fixed at setup, or does it form as cards are placed?
Turn Summary
- Can you discard the item in your storage slot instead of playing it?
- Can you play your stored item first and then store a newly taken item in the same turn?
- Where do used nurture tokens go: back in the bag or out of the game?
- Can you leave a nurture token on a room card?
- Does a room need to be empty to target it with a nurture token?
- Can you store a nurture token in your storage slot, and does the one-item limit apply to it?
- Can you place a furniture or pet token and also spend a nurture token in the same turn?
- When you place a plant next to a room that is already on your board, does the plant get verdancy from that room?
- Do already-placed plants collect extra verdancy each turn from matching rooms?
- Can completed plants still receive verdancy from matching rooms or nurture tokens?
- Can you take a room or plant card that you have no legal place for?
- Can the Hand Trowel add more than one verdancy to a single plant?
- When you take a card and a token from different columns using green thumbs, which card gets the new green thumb?
- If you cannot play or store a newly taken item token, is it removed from the game?
- Can you place a stored item and a newly drawn item in the same turn, into separate rooms?
- Can you move a furniture or pet token to another room, or swap a placed item for a different one?
- Must you take the highest-value bonus pot when completing a plant?
Green Thumb Token Actions
- Can you spend green thumbs you just collected this turn to wipe or replace market tokens or cards?
- Can you spend green thumbs you just received during your turn to add verdancy to a plant?
- Does the five green thumb limit apply at the end of your turn, or can you hold more during the turn?
- When you pay green thumbs to clear item tokens from the market, do the cleared tokens go back into the bag?
- Does the green thumb action that replaces market cards apply to both plant and room cards?
- Does the green thumb token-reset action exchange green thumbs for market tokens?
- Where do green thumb tokens come from during the game?
End Game & Scoring
- Does an item in your storage slot count when scoring unique items at the end of the game?
- Are the Collector and Decorator bonuses 3 points for each plant or room type, or 3 points once for a full set?
- When scoring unique items, does owning two of the same item cancel the first copy?
- When scoring a room's color bonus, do potless plants count?
- Do lighting matches affect end-game points, or only verdancy?
Solo Mode
Goal Card Rules Clarifications
- For Item Goal E, do the two same-color items also have to be the same type?
- How does Item Goal G 'Creature Comforts' score pets?
- How does the 'Competitive Collections' plant goal score?
- Can Three of a Kind score more than once, for example with six identical items in two sets?
- How does the 'Every shade of green' plant goal count plant types?
- For Double Duty (Room Goal C), does 'plant type match' mean the room color or the lighting condition?
- How does Room Goal F 'Diversified Designer' score rows with unique room types?
- For the Perfect Lighting end goal, must a plant have all of its preferred lighting conditions matched?
- Do potless plants count toward goal cards that score completed plants?
- Does the 'On Vacation' goal count potless plants or plants with zero verdancy?
- Does the 4 Corners end-game bonus count plants in the outer corners?