Grow a lush garden of beautiful blooms in order to attract helpful pollinators to their favorite flowers. Lay tiles in the right spots so that the insects pollinate your flowers instead of your opponents'.
Reiner Knizia has two interesting mechanics that really give this game its bones. The "attract" rule guarantees a highly interactive game, and the end game scoring will make you pay extra attention to which types of insects you are collecting.
Pollen is a beautiful reimplementation of Reiner Knizias hidden gem Samurai: the Card Game. It has been a personal favorite of mine for years. It really shines with its new theme, showing that it is really a good game in its own right and can shed the "card game" moniker.
