Agricola (Revised Edition)

Each player receives a personal farm board featuring a small wooden house with two rooms. Players take a set of player-colored meeples, fences, stables, and room markers. Minor improvements and occupation cards are distributed to players in secret. The main board is assembled according to player count, placing action cards sequentially in designated round spaces. General supply tokens (wood, clay, stone, reed, food, grain, vegetables, and animals) are organized neatly within easy reach of all participants. The starting player receives the starting player token and fewer food resources than subsequent players to balance initial turns.

The main objective of Agricola is to develop a thriving, self-sustaining family farm. Players must plow fields, sow crops, build fences, construct stables, and raise livestock including sheep, wild boar, and cattle. Simultaneously, players need to expand and upgrade their dwelling from wood to clay and eventually stone, ensuring their growing family has enough room and nourishment to survive harsh harvest phases.

The game spans fourteen rounds divided into six distinct stages, with new action spaces opening as rounds progress. During each round, players take turns placing one of their available family members onto unoccupied action spaces on the main board. Once placed, the action is resolved immediately. Actions include gathering resources, plowing fields, sowing crops, building rooms, constructing fences or stables, breeding animals, and playing occupation or improvement cards. When all family members have been placed, players retrieve them to their houses and perform a harvest phase at the end of specific rounds.

Final scoring evaluates multiple aspects of the farm. Players earn points for the number of plowed fields, sown grain, vegetables, enclosed pastures, and housed animals including sheep, wild boar, and cattle. Points are also awarded for unused farm spaces, fenced stables, rooms in the house, upgraded house materials, family members, and bonus points from specific minor and major improvement cards. Conversely, negative points are deducted for begging tokens and empty farm spaces.

The game concludes automatically at the end of the fourteenth round. Following the final harvest—where players must feed their family and breed animals—a comprehensive final scoring phase takes place. All farm components, livestock, improvements, and penalty tokens are tallied using the scoring track on the player board. The player with the highest total score wins, with tie-breakers decided by remaining construction resources.