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Agricola

by Z Man Games
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  • Product Dimensions: 35.6 x 7.6 x 25.4 cm ; 1.8 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 2.1 Kg
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  • Item model number: ZMG7026
  • ASIN: B001C7617Q
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,739 in Toys & Games (See Bestsellers in Toys & Games)

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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? Players start the game with two family members living in a two-room wooden hut. In each round, each member of their family may choose one action. If they collect wood and reed, they can extend their hut and then add to their family. Family growth allows additional actions, but has the disadvantage that more food must be produced. And to get food, the players plough fields and plant seeds. The planted grain and vegetable are harvested during the Harvest when the animals breed as well. To raise animals, pastures must be fenced to allow sheep, wild board and cattle to graze. Occupations or Improvements can ensure a family's upkeep. Each of these cards allows the player a small advantage in the game. Victory Points are earned when players renovate their wooden hut into a clay hut and later even a stone house. But everything else to do with balancing food requirements or making every day life a little more comfortable can earn Victory Points - especially Family Growth. Each game uses a different group of the Occupation and Improvement cards, ensuring that no two games are exactly alike. Additional rules for a solo game and a shortened Family game ensure appropriate challenges for each gaming table. Note: This is the English version

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5.0 out of 5 stars Complex, frustrating, brilliant, 26 Jan 2009
Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 
In this game, each player starts off with a board on which there is a two room wooden hut (represented by flat squares of card) and lots of empty spaces. They also start with two family members (counters) each of which gets to take one action per round. The aim of the game, over 14 rounds, is to develop the board and earn points by doing various things:

- gaining additional family members (which increases the number of turns you get in each round)
- covering as much of the board as possible with fields, pastures and additional rooms
- growing grain, vegetables and breeding various types of animals.

In each round each family member gets to take one action.

There is a harvest after every few rounds (and these become more frequent as the game proceeds) and one of the main catches is that you have to feed all of your family members every harvest, and there are limited ways in which you can generate food (and heavy penalties if you don't have enough). The other catch is that the various actions that are available can only be taken by one player (i.e. by one of their family members) in each round - e.g. if someone else has used the "plow a field" action already, that action is unavailable until the next round.

The end result is a fantastic game in which you have a limited number of moves, and have to balance all sorts of requirements. Having worked in a pressurised business environment, I think this game requires the same sort of multi-tasking and prioritisation that you do in the workplace (please ignore this sentence if it puts you off!!) It promotes mental agility and requires a high degree of concentration. It will get your brain whirring and make you dream about it after you have played it!

There is a family version which is relatively straightforward - the more complex version (introducing various cards that enable you to make better use of resources, take additional actions etc.) introduces infinite variability and ensures that every game will be unique.

I loved Ticket to Ride, and enjoyed Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan - Agricola is more demanding, and there is less of an element of luck, which makes it more rewarding in the end. An excellent, dangerously addictive board game!
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