Agricola

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, sometimes you better react on what your opponents do.

Description taken from BoardgameNews.com.

Expanded by:

• Agricola Z-Deck.

Awards

• 2007 Meeples' Choice Award Winner.
• 2008 Spiel des Jahres Winner, Special Prize for Complex Game.
• 81st game to be added to the Austrian Hall of Games.
• 2008 J.U.G. Winner

Microbadges

Agricola fan
Agricola fan - Food
Agricola fan - Loam 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.

Useful Threads

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

• Known Errors in the English Edition
• Replacing missing pieces in European Copies
• Latest news from Z-Man about delivery in the USA
• The composition of the Starter E-Deck (2nd ed)
• Common Mistakes While Playing Agricola - A Summary
• The Future of Animeeples

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.

Components:

• 5 individual farmyards for the players
• 3 gameboards for the game actions
• 1 gameboard for major improvements
• 169 yellow ocupation cards
• 139 orange minor improvement cards
• 10 red major improvement cards
• 14 blue round cards
• 16 green action cards
• 5 grey begging cards
• 5 summary cards
• 2 deck cards
• 5 family member discs, 4 stables and 15 fences in each of the 5 player colors
• 33 dark brown wood counters
• 27 light brown clay counters
• 15 white reed counters
• 18 grey stone counters
• 27 yellow grain counters
• 18 orange vegetable counters
• 21 white cubes (sheep)
• 18 black cubes (wild boar)
• 15 brown cubes (cattle)
• 1 starting player token
• 33 brown/grey field/stone house tiles
• 24 brown/red wood/clay hut tiles
• 36 yellow food markers
• 9 multiplication markers
• 3 claim markers
• 1 scoring pad