La Granja

Edition and objective: This entry covers the La Granja base-game scope of the 2014 Spielworxx first edition, using PD-Verlag's official 2015 German reprint and card glossary. The game supports one to four players and lasts six rounds. The original rulebook contains a solo section, but this summary focuses on the core farm and multiplayer flow; later Deluxe Master Set modules and Automa rules are excluded.

Four phases: Each round proceeds through Farm, Revenue, Transportation, and Scoring. Players complete the current step before the group moves to the next phase. In the first round each player plays two Farm cards; in each later round the player plays one card. Playing cards, receiving income, producing goods, and buying Roof tiles develop the farm. Plan storage and field space before gaining more goods, since a resource that has no legal place cannot simply be placed wherever convenient.

Four uses for a farm card: When playing a card, choose one edge to insert into the farm. The left edge makes a Field that grows olives, grain, or grapes; the top edge creates a Market Cart for a delivery pattern; the right edge expands the farm and may provide a lasting benefit; the bottom edge hires a Helper with a special ability. Only the selected orientation is active. A single card cannot function simultaneously as a Field, Cart, Extension, and Helper.

Farm phase and resources: Players play cards and refill their hands as instructed, collect farm income, grow crops in Fields, check pig breeding, and buy Roof tiles. At least two pigs and an empty pen are required to breed one additional pig; breeding does not create unlimited capacity, and a piglet cannot be sold to bypass that limit. Players may buy basic resources, upgrade them, or use free upgrade effects. Upgraded goods cannot be bought or sold directly. Crops normally remain in their Fields until upgraded, spent on a farm extension, or delivered; card 35 Field Worker is the rules' specific exception to the normal crop-sale restriction.

Revenue dice: Use five dice in a two-player game, seven with three players, and nine with four. In turn order, each player chooses two dice and resolves their income, then every player resolves the final remaining die. Die faces can provide a pig, a card or crop, two crops, Silver, a free upgrade plus Siesta movement, or a delivery/Silver option. Follow the pictured income effect rather than treating a die as a general action-point value. Earlier choices also determine which income combinations remain for later players.

Transportation and the Siesta track: Each player selects an available Donkey card. Its hats move the player on the Siesta track, while its donkeys set the number of free deliveries; extra deliveries may be purchased for Silver as permitted by the rules. Siesta position affects both scoring and the next round's order. If markers share a space, their stack position decides priority. Donkey-card availability changes during play, including a reset in round four, so do not carry unused delivery capacity automatically from one round to the next.

Deliveries to carts and buildings: Deliver farm goods to a craft building or one of your Market Carts, meeting the destination's resource requirement each time. The required goods may be delivered in any order and over multiple rounds. Completing a craft building grants its marker and printed reward; some markers provide an ongoing ability. A building blocked by a sequence marker opens when any player first completes the preceding building. Completing a Cart grants its printed points and a Trade Good, then places or removes market markers according to its market value; removed lower markers can score points.

Scoring and the end: During each Scoring phase, gain zero to three points according to the Siesta track and one point for each of your markers in the market. A marker on a craft building does not itself score every round. After round six, sell or convert eligible resources and Trade Goods into Silver at the listed values; crops still in Fields and upgraded goods cannot be sold. Convert each five Silver to one Victory Point. The highest total wins; ties go to the player with more remaining Silver, and a tie after Silver is shared.