Petal Battle
BGG rank
BGG #23,151
BGG rating
6.2

Petal Battle

2016

Rules assistance for Petal Battle

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 10–20 min
  • 5+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

Rules assistant for Petal Battle

For 2 players

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Petal Battle is a board game released in 2016 for 2 players, 10–20 minutes per game, and ages 5 and up. It was designed by Andrew Looney and its main mechanics are Simultaneous Action Selection.

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About the game

Your pyramid-shaped pieces in Petal Battle represent insects fighting over a flower. Using a simultaneous action selection process called "sequencing", you must take over half of the board — with five adjacent pieces of your color — to win. Each time they take an action, players can seed (add a small in an empty space next to a large), grow (exchange a small for a medium or a medium for a large), bump (move to an adjacent space, possibly shrinking or removing a opposing piece) or flip (move to the space on the opposite side of the petal possibly dislodging an opposing piece.) Petal Battle is a quick game of medium complexity. Included in Pyramid Arcade and as a PDF on the publisher's website.

Designers

Publishers

  • (Web published)
  • Looney Labs

Questions and answers

Petal Battle supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.