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Year Published
2007
# of Players:
1 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3, 4 players
Recommended with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 players
(579 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
120 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(200 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
(346 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Agricola
Alternate Names
アグリコラ
農家樂
農家樂
아그리콜라
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Families
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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 which, 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.

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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:
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There's also a refreshing microbadge available:
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And for those of you who just can't stop tweaking your Agricola game:
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6 Agricola Replenishment Cubes
These 16 cubes are used to indicate how much of a certain resource is available on a space on the board. Cubes are placed on the appropriate resource space. In the replenishment phase, just turn all cubes over the same way. When a new resource space is revealed, put a cube on it with the 0 side up. When someone takes the resources on a space, turn the cube back to 0 and take the appropriate amount of resources from whereever the resources are kept (plano box). When, after three increases, the resources are still not taken, put a single resource token underneath the resource cube and turn the cube to 0 (and keep doing this for every time the cube goes to the max). This visually IDs the resource space as being loaded, and it differentiates this situation from resources left (for instance...
2009-11-06
2 Agricola - ZipBundle
For us senior-citizen gamers, and others in the 'thick-eyeglass brigade', here are the rules for playing, starting and scoring, and using the cards of _Agricola_, in one Zip file, formatted to be printed out on 8.5x11 paper in 12-point type. Hope 'twill be more readable than the standard rulebook.
2009-10-30
2 Agricola - Playing Rules
For us senior-citizen gamers, and others in the 'thick-eyeglass brigade', here are the rules necessary to play _Agricola_, formatted to be printed out on 8.5x11 paper in 12-point type. Hope 'twill be more readable than the standard rulebook.
2009-10-30
2 Agricola - Cards
For us senior-citizen gamers, and others in the 'thick-eyeglass brigade', here are the rules for the cards of _Agricola_, formatted to be printed out on 8.5x11 paper in 12-point type. Hope 'twill be more readable than the standard rulebook.
2009-10-30
2 Agricola - Starting and Scoring
For us senior-citizen gamers, and others in the 'thick-eyeglass brigade', here are the rules necessary for setting up and for scoring _Agricola_, formatted to be printed out on 8.5x11 paper in 12-point type. Hope 'twill be more readable than the standard rulebook.
2009-10-30
4 Agricola calculator for mobile phones
0.2: Fixed score tables (I hope); Fixed the Clean All error where you couldn't recalculate after cleaning the form; Removed the total result from the form (it's buggy, need to figure out why); Some minor bugs fixed.
2009-10-27
2 Agricola - Foglio riassuntivo
Riassunto delle regole e varianti in italiano.
2009-10-26
5 Player Aid/Reusable Scoresheet
Finished size: 5.5" x 8.5". Print double-sided onto same sheet, cut sheet in half, laminate, use dry-erase marker. Use pages 1-2 for a version including game name graphic, showing scoring on one side and round cards by stage on the reverse. Use pages 3-4 for a version showing round cards and scoring on both sides, no game name graphic.
2009-10-08
12 Gain more table space by replacing the central boards
With five players, a lot of table space is required for the five playing mats plus the boards in the middle of the table for the 14 rounds and 16 base actions. The idea of this set of images is to replace the central boards with smaller individual actions and rounds cards. The 10 action spaces on the boards have been converted into separate images. I've produced the 14 round backs in two different colours so it is easier to spot the harvest points. And in case you cannot remember the harvest order, a little harvest card has been created. If all the images are printed onto standard A4, the cards are approx 68mm x 44mm (Wings of War, St Petersburg size). I didn't produce images for the family version because I only tend to play the two player family version which means table space is not...
2009-10-04
4 Agricola Solo Score Card
A printable score sheet (2 per A4) for solo games of Agricola. Use it to record up to 8 games and extra food and occupations held over.
2009-09-29
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