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In Agricola (Latin for ''farmer''), you're a farmer in a
wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only
two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities
you'll find on a farm: collecting clay, wood or stone; building fences; and so
on. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished,
but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going to feed all the
little rugrats?
Agricola is a turn-based game. There are 14 game turns plus 6 harvest phases
(after turn 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14). Each player starts with two playing
tokens (farmer and wife) and thus can take two actions per turn. There are
multiple options, and while the game progresses, you'll have more and more: first
thing in a turn, a new action card is flipped over.
Problem: Each action can be taken just once per turn, so it's important to do
some things with high preference. Each player also starts with a hand of 7
Occupation cards (of more than 160 total) and 7 Minor Improvement cards (of
more than 140 total) that he may use during the game if they fit in his/her
strategy. This amounts to countless strategies, some depending on your card
hand. Sometimes it's a good choice to stay on course, sometimes you better
react on what your opponents do.
Agricola can also be played without cards (family game) and can even be played
solo.
Components:
- 360
cards
- 300+
wooden components
- 50+
tiles
- 9
boards tokens
- 1
scoring pad
Awards
- 2009 Lucca
Games Best of Show (Italy), Side Award Best Game Mechanic
- 2009 Nederlandse
Spellenprijs 2009, Winner
- 2009 Ludoteca Ideale 2009,
Games of the Year
- 2009 Jogo do Ano
2008 Spiel Portugal (Portugal), Winner http://spielportugal.blogspot.com/2009/07/jogo-do-ano-2008.html
- 2009 Gra Roku Game
of the Year (Poland), Winner
- 2009 Gra Roku -
Gamers' Choice (Poland), Winner
- 2009 Gra Graczy -
Gamesfanatic.net (Poland), Winner
- 2009 Golden Ace
(France), Special Jury
- 2008 BoardGameGeek
Golden Geek, Winner, Game of The Year
- 2008 Spiel des
Jahres (Germany), Winner, Special Prize for Complex Game.
- 81st game to be added to the
Austrian Hall of Games.
- 2008 J.U.G.
(Portugal), Winner, Game of the Year
- 2008 Deutscher
Spiele Preis (Germany), Winner, Game of the Year
- 2008 International
Gamers Award Winner, General Strategy/Multi-player Game
- 2008 Hra roku (Czech
Republic), Winner
- 2008 Spiel der
Spiele (Austria) Spiele Hit für Experten
- 2008 Tric Trac
d'or (France), Winner, Game of the Year
- 2008 Jda "Juego del Aņo
en Espaņa" (Spain), Winner http://www.premiojda.es/
- 2007 Meeples'
Choice Award Winner.

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