Agricola (2007)

In Agricola, 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?

The rules include a beginner's version and an advanced version.

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 job cards (of more than 160 total) and 7 item cards (of more than 140 total) that he/she may use during the game if they fit in his/her strategy. Speaking of: there are countless strategies, some depending on your card hand. Sometimes it's a good choice to stay on course and sometimes it is better to react to your opponents actions.

Description taken from BoardgameNews.com.

• 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 Año en España" (Spain), Winner http://www.premiojda.es/
• 2007 Meeples' Choice Award Winner.

Microbadges

Agricola fan
Agricola fan - Food
Agricola fan - Clay house
Agricola fan - Player board
Agricola fan - Stone house
Agricola fan - Wooden house
Agricola fan - Sheep
Agricola fan - Boar
Agricola fan - Bull

Please note that many of the components shown on the pictures here are custom made and not included in the game.

Microbadges for the expansions are also available:
Z-Deck fan
X-Deck fan
Ö-Deck fan
Through the Seasons fan
I managed to complete the L-Deck at Essen
I failed to complete the L-Deck at Essen

There's also a refreshing microbadge available:
I drank Agri-Cola at Essen

And for those of you who just can't stop tweaking your Agricola game:
I pimped my Agricola

Online Play

• http://banach.ucsd.edu -- 1-5 players in real time.

In a game with over 1000 threads in the forum, it can be hard to find the important ones. So...

• Z-Man Games Newsletter #2 - English Errata
• Known Errors in the English Edition (long version)
• Known Errors in the English Edition (short version)
• Replacing missing pieces in European Copies
• The composition of the Starter E-Deck (2nd ed)
• Common Mistakes While Playing Agricola - A Summary
• The Future of Animeeples
• Upgrading German 1st Edition to English (contact address for this is ersatzteile (at) lookout-games.de)
• The Unofficial Agricola Compendium - a complete list of clarifications and errata

Please do not add to this list unless the thread is really useful. In particular, you should not be adding a thread you created yourself (unless you are Hanno or Zev) -- let others decide whether it is useful enough to be worth including above.