Agricola

The game has fourteen rounds in six stages. Each round reveals a new round-action card and replenishes accumulating resources. Starting with the Starting player and proceeding clockwise, place one family member at a time on an empty action space and resolve it immediately; everyone returns home when all placements are finished. The Starting player marker does not rotate automatically and must be claimed through its action.

Ordinary Family growth requires more rooms than existing family members; the later Family growth without room action is an exception. A newborn does not act that round and becomes an additional worker from the next round onward. Each family is limited to five members.

New rooms must be orthogonally adjacent to existing rooms and built from the same material. The ordinary cost is five of the matching building resource plus two reed per room. Renovate the whole house one step at a time, from wood to clay to stone; a wooden house cannot jump straight to stone.

To sow, place one grain or vegetable from your supply in an empty field, then add from the general supply to make a stack of three grain or two vegetables. Harvest one crop from each sown field at a time. An emptied field can be sown again without ploughing it again. A pasture normally holds two animals of one type per space; a stable inside it doubles that pasture’s capacity.

Harvest after rounds 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14, in the order field harvest, feeding, then breeding. Normally feed each family member two Food, but a member born that round needs only one. Take a Begging card for each missing Food, losing three points per card at game end. Unprocessed grain or vegetables each provide one Food; converting animals requires an appropriate improvement.

During breeding, each animal type with at least two animals produces only one offspring if it can be housed legally. More pairs or more pastures do not increase this. Breeding comes after feeding, so newborn animals cannot supply the Food for that same harvest.

Score after the fourteenth round’s harvest. Use the scoring table for fields, pastures, crops, and the three animal types; add rooms, fenced stables, family members, and card points, then subtract unused-space and Begging penalties. Each family member scores three points, each clay room one, and each stone room two; wooden rooms score no room points. Highest total wins, with tied players sharing victory.