agricola.rst

Agricola

Time:	60-120 min
# Players:	1-4
Style:	competitive worker placement game

Table of Contents:

• Important glossary
• Important general rules
• Setup

Important glossary

child

a new worker aquired during the current round

NW

nurture value (represented by a dish pawn)

Important general rules

rounds (14 total)

1. preparation

   turn next action card face up

   get wares on it if there are any

   stack up Anhäufungsfelder

2. worker placement

   start player places one worker, then next player, until all workers are placed

   workers block action for other workers

   actions are done immediately

   at least one action must be done to allow placement

   "and/or" action: choose order of actions

   "and then" action: must do first, can do second

3. return time

   workers are returned to the rooms, including any child now becoming adult

4. harvest time

   indicated by a horn of plenty if it happens

harvest time

1. harvest the top piece of each farmland
2. feed family (2 NW for each adult, 1 NW for a child)
3. if you have two or more of the same animal species on your board: spawn 1 more of this species once per species

workers

only one worker per room allowed (except with "urgent childwish")

enlarging the house after using "urgent childwish" immediately moves the worker to the new free room

new workers stay on the "childwish" action with the adult until return time, they count as adults starting the next round

Setup

each player

place one person per room

get 3 NW (except start player who gets 2 and the start player token)

get 7 Anschaffungen (orange cards)

get 7 Ausbildungen (yellow cards, sort out for player number)

board

shuffle action cards and place them on board from 1-6

sort big Anschaffungen on their spaces (red cards)

place variant action boards next to the board (not Nebentätigkeit)