In Garden Heist, all players but one are raccoons who want to scurry through the garden and reach the garbage cans at the side of the farmer's house where they are sure to find goodies to eat.

However, the last player is the gardener who watches over both the garden and those garbage cans, but they can't watch everything all the time, with the raccoons having several rounds in which to move and advance toward the house, possibly stealing food from the garden on the way there.

The gardener scores by discovering raccoons behind the correct hiding place, and once the gardener has collected five tiles or the raccoons have reached the garbage cans, the roles change, with someone else playing the gardener.