Ladybird with two uses the same rules as games with more players. In the BoardGameGeek community poll, half the voters rate it as the best player count and the other half as recommended, with no votes against.

Yes, Ladybird has an official solo mode on page 8 of the rulebook: the goal is to beat your own record. The market drops to 2 rows of 3 cards, there are 2 face-up Orchards, and the Harlequin is played into your own columns, discarding the top card and letting you take any card you like from the market.

You don't need any English to play Ladybird: the cards and tiles use colours, icons and numbers. The rulebook for this edition is in English, so you'll only need it to learn the rules.

Ladybird has a simple three-step turn: place a card, take one and use a Garden tile. There are only a few special rules to remember, and they're clear: the Harlequin, Honeydew, which lets you take more Food tiles, and the Mould tiles for the 22-point ladybird. On BoardGameGeek its weight is 2.75 out of 5.

Ladybird changes the starting hand, the market and the Orchards every game, because the cards are shuffled, and the 48 Food tiles are randomly split into 8 stacks of 6. The 5 days, the 15 rounds and the sequence of actions stay the same.

In Ladybird you mostly get in each other's way by taking the cards others need from the shared market and the Orchards. The direct attack is the Harlequin: it replaces the top card of an opponent's column, steals it and can make that player lose their Life Cycle card.

A game of Ladybird takes 30 to 90 minutes. It's always played over 5 days of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 rounds, for 15 rounds in total.

Ladybird is recommended for ages 10 and up. The theme is the garden and the life cycle of ladybirds, and the cards have no text to read.

In Ladybird, the player with the most points after the fifth day wins. You add up the bonuses above each column multiplied by the cards in that column, the Food tiles multiplied by the ladybirds of their type, Childhood Memories and 1 point per aphid; in a tie, the player with the most Memories wins.

In Ladybird, Childhood Memories are heart tokens that give bonus points. You earn 1 when you take the last card from a row or column of the market, 2 if you empty a row and a column at once, and you can take one with the last day's action.

Ladybird takes up the centre of the table plus some space in front of each player. The centre holds the deck, the 3 × 3 grid of cards, 3 Orchard cards, 8 stacks of Food tiles and the tokens; in front of each player, up to five columns of cards grow, one per colour.

In Ladybird, luck plays a moderate part: the market is refilled from the shuffled deck, but you always choose from face-up cards and tiles. Drawing 2 face-down cards only comes into play when the card for the unlocked stage isn't available.