Agricola is a designer board game created by Uwe Rosenberg, and published by Lookout Games in Europe and Z-Man Games in the US. The aim of the game is to have the most well-balanced farm at the end of 14 turns, with ploughed fields, pastures, grain, vegetables and animals all present, with as little fallow land as possible, with a house with many rooms and higher quality material, and with as many family members as possible.
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Agricola is a designer board game created by Uwe Rosenberg, and published by Lookout Games in Europe and Z-Man Games in the US. The aim of the game is to have the most well-balanced farm at the end of 14 turns, with ploughed fields, pastures, grain, vegetables and animals all present, with as little fallow land as possible, with a house with many rooms and higher quality material, and with as many family members as possible.
The game was released at Spiel 2007, where it was voted second-best game shown at the convention, according to the Fairplay in-show voting. The game was released in English by Z-Man Games in July 2008.
Agricola won the Spiel des Jahres special award for "Best complex game 2008" and the 2008 Deutscher Spiele Preis. It was also the game which finally ended Puerto Rico's run of more than five years as the highest-rated game on the board game website BoardGameGeek.
Each player begins with a small two-room farm house and a family of two. This entitles them to two...
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